Whether you’re looking for a sweet way to start your morning or tasty snack later in the day, sometimes nothing beats a good doughnut. The Rochester area has no shortage of delicious spots for doughnuts with a range of traditional and modern options alike. Use this guide to help you learn about some of the best doughnut shops around the Rochester, Minnesota, area.
Drift Dough
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Drift Dough specializes in small-batch cake doughnuts. It rotates its creative flavors, and it also offers a selection of vegan and gluten-free doughnuts. Some examples of its doughnut flavors include caramel, matcha, pistachio, root beer, ube, Fruity Pebbles, cherry devil’s food, Oreo, and lemon poppyseed. Check Drift Dough’s social media before your visit to learn more about the flavors available. In addition to its shop, it often sells its doughnuts through other local businesses, such as Cafe Steam.
Location: 832 7th St. NW, Rochester, MN 55901
Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday
Roasted Bliss
Roasted Bliss is a coffee shop and bakery. Its daily offerings include a selection of gourmet pastries, rolls, cupcakes, and cakes that you can pair with one of its coffee, frappe, or smoothie options. However, Roasted Bliss has Doughnut Day each Saturday. While exact options may vary, some flavors it may offer include raspberry-filled, maple, and dirt and worms. It also usually has a selection of traditional cake doughnuts as well as long johns. Be sure to check its social media profiles in advance to learn about what flavors are available for Doughnut Day that week.
Location: 2550 Broadway Ave. S., Suite #300, Rochester, MN 55904
Hours: 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sweet House Bakery
Sweet House Bakery is a full-service bakery. It offers both raised glazed and cake doughnuts. In addition to regular glaze, both types are available in flavors like chocolate, cinnamon sugar, maple, powdered sugar, and vanilla. It also offers rounded powdered sugar doughnuts with raspberry jelly filling and long johns available with your choice of raspberry jelly filling or Bavarian cream. It also offers a variety of specialty flavors.
Stop by and see for yourself why Rochester Magazine readers voted Sweet House Bakery as Best Donuts in Rochester in 2022. To celebrate, the bakery is also offering free doughnut delivery on Fridays through 2022. If you stop by the bakery, consider trying one of its other options, which include cake, turnovers, danishes, scones, Kouign-amanns, cinnamon rolls, cupcakes, and more.
Location: 1219 2nd St. SW, Rochester, MN 55902
Hours: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday
Hi Quality
Hi Quality is a bakery with more than 70 years of experience. Its doughnut options include bismarks, cake doughnuts, raised doughnuts, old fashioned doughnuts, and long johns. The menu also offers a variety of fritters, twists, and knots, as well as honeymooners with the option for lemon or Bavarian cream filling.
If you’re in the mood for something other than a doughnut, consider trying one of Hi Quality’s brownie bars, fruit pies, cookies or breads. It also offers custom cakes and cupcakes. Since it’s located approximately 40 minutes from Rochester in Cannon Falls, consider placing your order online for pickup before you visit to help ensure you get the items you want.
Location: 121 4th St. N., Cannon Falls, MN 55009
Hours: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
Han’s Bakery
Han’s Bakery is a family bakery with a history dating back to the 1970s. The bakery offers a selection of cakes, cupcakes, pastries, tortes, cookie bars, and doughnuts. While Han’s Bakery briefly closed from 2010 to 2013, the new ownership uses the same German recipes to make the same delicious treats that the original owners used.
Han’s Bakery has no shortage of delectable doughnuts to try. The Birkner Box offers a baker’s dozen sampling of some of its most popular cake doughnuts, raised doughnuts, rolls, and pastries. For a bigger appetite, consider one of the Texas doughnuts, which are oversized raised doughnuts available with glaze, chocolate frosting, or white frosting. Other doughnuts include cinnamon twists, maple-frosted long johns and filled bismarcks.
Another signature item from Han’s Bakery is the beehive. This is a coffee cake filled with Bavarian cream, topped with powdered sugar and candied almonds. Try this the next time you stop by the bakery, or add it to your online order. While the bakery accepts walk-ins, it requires customers to place online orders at least 48 hours in advance. This may be a good option if you plan to make the approximately 90-minute day trip from Rochester to Anoka to visit Han’s.
Location: 1423 5th Ave., Anoka, MN 55303
Hours: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily
Bloedow Bakery
Bloedow Bakery opened in 1924. While three generations of the Bloedow family owned and operated the bakery, the Hugh and Mary Polus are now responsible for the bakery. However, the Bloedows mentored Hugh for almost 20 years, ensuring he’s familiar with the family traditions and recipes in order to continue to provide them today.
The bakery offers a variety of bismarcks, cake doughnuts, raised doughnuts, long johns, and doughnut holes. It also offers filled doughnuts on a rotating daily schedule. Other treat options available from Bloedown Bakery include packzi, scones, turnovers, cokkies, coffee cakes, muffins, and more. As this is about an hour from the Rochester area, consider using the bakery’s online ordering system a day early to help ensure you get the items you want.
Location: 451 E. Broadway, Winona, MN 55987
Hours: 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday
We’ve reached the end of our list of some of the best doughnut shops around the Rochester, Minnesota, area. At Tom Kadlec KIA, we’re proud to be a part of the Rochester community, and we hope this guide helped you learned about other local businesses to support. Don’t see your favorite doughnut shop listed? Drop us a line to share your recommendation with us. We may even update our guide to include it.
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