When I was growing up in the small Northern Ontario town of Blind River there was a local bakery called Golden Bakery. They had the most amazing jelly filled doughnuts and if my memory serves me correctly we paid 12 cents for one! The bakery closed when I left to attend college, but the memory of those sugary jelly filled concoctions still lived on. Later on when we built our cottage the gentleman who had owned the bakery lived a few doors down, but by the time I got up the courage to ask for his recipe he had passed away. So the hunt was on to find a recipe that could bring back the jelly filled doughnut!
Brown Eyed Baker blog to the rescue!! She posted this recipe for Polish doughnuts called Paczki and they looked and sounded just like what I was looking for so I gave it a try and bingo that was the recipe I was looking for. So when it was time for a dessert for our Easter potluck this year, it was time to make Jelly Doughnuts again and I think these are even better than what I remember from the Golden Bakery.