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Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough

Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Bomboloni – Where to Get the Best Sugar Coated Dough
Photo: Josie Withers
Call it a doughnut, a bombolone or just a plain old indulgence. Whatever you choose to call them, we went in search of the best in town.

· Updated on 03 Oct 2013 · Published on 23 Jan 2012

There’s fried food and then there’s bomboloni. Far beyond the realm of choosing something fried to comfort a hangover, the bombolone (singular) is a morning tea, a dessert and a treat any time of day. The soft round pillow of yeasty dough is deep-fried, filled with silky custard or sweet jam and dusted in sugar. Sticky fingers are obligatory as the toffee-brown outside is bitten into revealing cakey dough and a gooey filling.

The Italian version originated in Tuscany, but there are many variations of the round doughnut-like morsel with various names: a ‘beignet’ made with yeast dough, ‘boules de Berlin’, the ‘Berliner’ or simply jam or custard doughnuts.

We love them and have put together a list of our favourite places to get your bombolone on!

American Doughnut Kitchen

Jam only: bag of six for $6

Queen Victoria Markets

Baker D Chirico

Vanilla Custard: $3.20 each

149 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

(03) 9534 3777

178 Faraday Street, Carlton

(03) 9349 3445

bakerdchirico.com.au

Sugardough

Jam, Custard, Chocolate Ganache: $2.80 each

163 Lygon Street, Brunswick

(03) 9380 4060

sugardough.com.au

Dench Bakers
Vanilla Custard only: $3.80 each

109 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North

(03) 9403 5333

denchbakers.com.au

Noisette

Vanilla Custard, Strawberry Jam, Nutella: $3 each

84 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

(03) 9646 9555

noisette.com.au

O’Hea’s Bakery

Jam (Strawberry or Apricot), Custard (Vanilla or Chocolate): $2.50 each

203–205 O’Hea Street, Coburg

(03) 9354 8070

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