The maple bacon donut is a culinary dessert

Dessert

In cultures around the world, dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food. The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French desservir, "to clear the table" and "to serve." Common Western desserts include cakes, biscuits,...

 specialty that has become popular in some areas of the United States

United States

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. They are distinct from other donut

DONUT

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s because of the prominent bacon

Bacon

Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon . Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in cold air, boiled, or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon must be cooked before eating...

 and maple syrup

Maple syrup

Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species such as the bigleaf maple. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter; the starch is then...

–flavored glaze used for toppings and have been also discussed in the media as part of the phenomenon sometimes referred to as bacon mania

Bacon mania

Bacon mania refers to passionate bacon enthusiasm in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Especially fervent in the United States, the enthusiasm has been described as forming a "Bacon Nation"...

.

Popular history

The Swirls bakery in Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

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, started a "Maple Bacon Donut Craze" with its version sometimes referred to as "The Elvis". The bakery's owner, Dawn Brown, said she wanted something shocking that people would love or hate, and would talk about. She describes the concept as simple: "It's your breakfast plate turned into one item that you put in your mouth." She reported a response from her customers that has been overwhelming and said she prepares 5 pounds of bacon daily. "I know that most people are coming for the Maple Bacon Donut a.k.a. 'The Elvis'."

Dynamo Donut in San Francisco, California

California

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, also serves maple bacon donuts. At Voodoo Doughnut

Voodoo Doughnut

Voodoo Doughnut is an independent doughnut shop based in Portland, Oregon USA. The original location, opened in 2003, is at 22 SW 3rd Avenue, "just south of the Burnside Bridge" and around the corner from Dan and Louis Oyster Bar...

 in Portland

Portland, Oregon

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, Oregon

Oregon

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, maple bacon donuts are sold under the name Bacon Maple Bar.

The Original Pantry Cafe

Original Pantry Cafe

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 in Los Angeles, described as the area's favorite greasy spoon

Greasy spoon

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 that "has kept the faith for 85 years", offers maple-glazed bacon doughnuts for breakfast at its downtown location, as well as BLTs and pulled pork

Pulled pork

Pulled pork is a form of barbecue in which pork, usually shoulder cut or mixed cuts, is cooked using a low-heat, long-cook method. With these extended times at low temperatures, the meat becomes tender enough that its weakened connective tissue allows the meat to be "pulled", or easily broken into...

 sandwiches for lunch. The Nickel Diner in downtown Los Angeles also serves up the treat and has the slogan "Home of the Maple Glaze Bacon Donut" on its website. Writing about reclusive author John Twelve Hawks

John Twelve Hawks

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, Carolyn Kellogg of the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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opined that the Nickel Diner maple-bacon doughnut "is so good, it should be able to get anyone to come out of hiding."

Nord's Bakery on the edge of Germantown in Louisville, Kentucky debuted a maple-bacon Long John

Long john

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 in 2009. "It looks just like any other maple cream Long John, but for the slab of bacon embedded in the icing," but customers are said to be divided over it, and even stressed. "The argument in favor is clear: a Maple-Bacon Long John is basically an order of pancakes, maple syrup and bacon that you can carry around in a bag and eat in the car with no utensils other than a napkin" and "it's something every bacon lover ought to try," the Courier-Journal reported.

The rise in popularity of the Bacon Donut has led to the creation of its own Facebook fan page.