Try the donut Shack in Severna Park on Ritchie Highway

New System Bakery in Hampden. Best Honey-dipped donut in Baltimore, and their Cinnamon Fried Raison is to die for.

Thanks, Miles! The two Krispy Kreme stores cloes to me closed and I've been missing a nice honey dip.

I think the best donuts in Ocean city and Baltimore are at the Fractured Prune. In Baltimore, they are located on Harford Rd. in Parkville, just inside the beltway.

I agree with Miles -- NEW SYSTEM BAKERY in Hampden is the best!!

Also the FRACTURED PRUNE in downtown Annapolis. There's something soooo good about made to order donuts that are still warm when you get them! YUM!

As mentioned Donut Shack on Ritchie Highway is very good, open 24 hours, and have some very good donuts. They also seve a few donuts the size of your head! WOW!

Keller's Bakery, Camp Meade Road in Linthicum makes some very good and rather authentic marshmallow donuts. The marshmallow isn't that harsh, chemical, over sugared goo you get in many donuts today.

My favorite doughnuts come from Saubel's bakery in Shrewsbury, PA. Yummy!

I think Simon's Bakery has the best donuts. I used to get donuts from Edleweiss when it was in Pasadena and those were the best I've ever had. Sadly, that location closed.

Fractured Prune on Harford Road in Parkville - the OC sand are the best!

Woodlea Bakery on Belair Road has the best marshmallow donuts.

The bakery in Galena on the Eastern Shore (can't remember the name, but it's the only one in Galena) has the absolute, hands-down worlds best homemade donuts! Go up 213 to the stoplight in Galena. Turn left at the light and I think it's on the left..like I said, only bakery for miles around..can't miss it.

I recently enjoyed a sugared doughnut, which is my guiltiest pleasure as well, from Donut Delight at Lexington Market. I hope you have a chance to try them!

Fenwick's Bakery on Harford Road north of Northern Parkway has excellent doughnuts. Their pastries are good too.

Keller's on Camp Meade Road in Linthicum

THE BEST DONUTS I HAVE HAD WERE FROM A LITTLE BAKERY IN HAGERSTOWN MD. KUMPY'S IT IS OPEN AT NIGHT AND ONLY FOR A FEW HOURS. BE READY TO STAND IN LINE.

Really, everybody is comparing apples to oranges.

If you want Marshmallow, go to Woodlea. Overstuffed, homemade marshmallow, guaranteed to silence any screaming 3 year old . . . or 103 year old.

If you want Honey Dipped, go to New Systems. Delicious, well worth a trip to Hampden just for a dozen.

Fenwick does a perfect classic chocolate iced donut in a dunkin donuts style that puts Fred the Baker to shame.

And then there is the new boy in town. Fractured Prune. What used to be a small indulgence on vacation down the ocean now tempts me from less than a 1/2 mile away. If you enjoy cake donuts AT ALL, you need to get to one block south of putty hill ave. on harford rd. Prepared while you wait with what ever topping your heart desires. I usually get a half dozen plus one plain. Hot and moist that one donut usually doesn't make it out of the parking space, let alone all the way back home.

Let's all give donuts their due respect. Such a humble pastry known for the nothingness that defines it's shape. It has brought comfort and togetherness to many an office breakfast, construction sites, police stations (haha!), and any where hard working americans want to start their day with some innocent indulgence before heading out into the cut throat working world. Bask in their glory!

I'd go with the Donut Shack in Severna Park too. The best donuts around, especially their cake donuts!

OC Sand at the Fractured Prune all the way. I was just a kid when my grandfather started to take me to the beach shack that the Prune sprang out of in OC. Imagine my surpise when I found a Fractured Prune next to my hotel in DC this spring. I turned a whole group of people on to the wonders of the Prune in two short days.

I love the Donut Shack too but when 97 opened never go on Ritchie Highway. Maybe I should change my route.