The Top 10 Best Apple Cider Donuts In Illinois And Iowa

It's yet another reason to love fall.

Hot take: apple cider is elite to pumpkin spice. Nothing tastes like fall and curling up in a blanket quite like apple cider, especially the donuts.

They're soft, flavorful, and a completely viable breakfast in the fall. Apple cider donuts have been around for a minute, since American colonalists came up with them. At the time, they had a surplus of leftover fat after the fall butchering season. To use it, colonial cooks mixed fry dough with the apples in season, and poof, the apple cider donut was born.

It resurged in the 1950's, when it was launched as the 'Sweet Cider Donut', advertised as a "spicy round cake" with "fall appeal". Really, that's true, no lie detected.

And nowadays, when we think of things we can do with apple cider besides drink it, we immediately think: apple cider donuts.

Now, so many places, whether or not apple cider donuts are their specialty, serve up the sweet treat in the fall. Some grocery stores or some annual events have delightful apple cider donuts.

But to narrow down the field, we looked at Google Ratings, Yelp, publications, and Facebook recommendations to come up with the top 5 apple cider donuts for both Illinois and Iowa.

It's true, based on what I could find, there are dozens of great orchards and bakeries in both states that have fantastic apple cider donuts. In your opinion, are there any we left out? Let us know in our app!

Scroll down to see the top 10 favorite apple cider donuts in Illinois and Iowa!