Yes! Yes! Doughnuts are here! Many of us at the bakery love doughnuts, both making them and eating them. I really mean that enthusiasm communicated so inadequately with an exclamation point.

In the warmth of our bakery during these cold gray days we decided to go ahead and treat you and us by making doughnuts on late Saturday mornings. We have one little deep fryer so we won’t be making 100s of them rather just a few as a treat. For awhile we’re going to make Bacon Apple doughnuts with a maple glaze (made with maple syrup from up north). Doughnuts are indulgent enough I know but they taste so good with bacon in them that we couldn’t resist. Also this is a big year for bacon in the Zingerman’s community so we wanted to get in on the action. The bacon is Nueske’s applewood smoked and the apples are Ida Reds from Nemeth Orchards in Ypsilanti.

I’m definitely dreaming of other flavors for the future. Alejandro, one of our BAKE! instructors, created a super rich vanilla pastry cream. One day we’ll stuff the doughnuts with it and then glaze them with chocolate ganache. In the summer we may make preserves from local berries and use them as a filling. Those are a few ideas to start.

Come on over and tell us what you think Saturdays at 10 AM. Saturday mornings don’t work for you? We teach the doughnuts in a BAKE! class so that you can make them at home at your preferred doughnut time. We are teaching We Dig Donuts next on March 6th (sold out) and again on June 29th.

Amy Emberling, Bakehouse Managing Partner

Farm Bread
March’s bread of the month. A naturally leavened loaf with the flavor of toasted wheat. We like its flavor best with a dark crust. Frank’s favorite bread. Farm loaves are $4.50 this month (reg. $6.25).

Hunka Burnin’ Love Chocolate Cake
March’s cake of the month. Rich layers of buttermilk chocolate cake with plenty of dark chocolate butter cream. Chocolate cakes and slices are 20% off this month.

Special Bake Breads
Irish Brown Soda Bread 3/1-3/17
Black Olive Farm 3/5 & 3/6
Green Olive Paesano 3/12 & 3/13
Boston Brown Bread 3/27
Please call for bake times and to reserve your special loaves.

Free T-shirt March 17th only at Zingerman’s Bakehouse
Buy a loaf of Irish Soda bread (or any bread) and a 1/2 pound of Kerrygold Irish butter, get a free bread and butter t-shirt. Offer available on March 17th only at Zingerman’s Bakehouse while supplies last.

Townie Brownies
Who needs wheat flour to make a delicious brownie? Try our new townie brownie, as unique as the Ann Arbor natives it’s named after. Made from ancient grains commonly used in South America- amaranth and quinoa. It’s packed with protein, spiked with chocolate chunks and best of all it’s gluten free!
Also try our other gluten free sweets- coconut macaroons, pignoli cookies, lemon sponge cake and hand-made marshmallows!