Since a very small kitchen

We just really love doughnuts.

That Doughnut Place started as a weekend project — one fryer, one small kitchen, and an obsession with getting a proper brioche dough right. We still use that same recipe, slow-proofed overnight, fried to order and finished by hand.

No premixes. No shortcuts. Just doughnuts, done well.

2020 to 2026

The story so far

Six years of markets, early starts and a dough recipe we have barely touched. Here is how it went.

  1. 2020

    One fryer, one kitchen

    It started as a weekend thing. One fryer, a very small kitchen, and about forty failed batches before the dough came right.

    Photo to come
  2. 2021

    First market stall

    Sold out

    We took a folding table to our first market and sold out by lunch. Then we did it again the week after, and the week after that.

    Photo to come
  3. 2022

    Sold out by eleven

    Weekends became a proper round of markets across South Wales. Saturday's batch was gone by 11:40 more often than not.

    Photo to come
  4. 2023

    Doughnut walls

    Weddings

    Weddings and parties started asking. It turns out a wall of doughnuts beats a cake, and we have been building them ever since.

    Photo to come
  5. 2024

    A proper kitchen

    We moved out of the home kitchen into a unit with two fryers and a cold room. Same overnight dough, a lot more of it.

    Photo to come
  6. 2025

    Preorder goes live

    Preorder

    You asked to reserve a box before we sold out, so we built it. Order online, collect at the stall, skip the queue.

    Photo to come
  7. 2026

    Still frying

    A full markets diary, a growing events book, and the same dough recipe we started with. We start again at six.

    Photo to come

And counting

Slow dough

A 24-hour cold-proof brioche. The time is what gives the dough its flavour and its lightness.

Small batches

We fry in batches through the day. It is why what you get is warm and why what is left goes quickly.

Proper ingredients

Madagascan vanilla. Valrhona chocolate. British butter and jam. Local suppliers where we can swing it.

Come say hi

Find us at the markets

Weekly stalls, pop-ups and the occasional festival. The diary updates every week.

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