Belle Kitchen: Doughnuts (Oklahoma City, OK)

Dessert Profile

Flavor: Doughnuts

Ingredients: eggs, butter, sugar, salt and flour

Price: $3

Calories: 250-300 Calories

Three-word Review: Fluffy puff pastry

Score: 8.2

About: Belle Kitchen

Cheryl Davenport, a former biology teacher and self-taught baker opened up Belle Kitchen in 2015 with executive chef Shelby Sieg. What was once a popular shop at the local farmer’s market became a beloved brick and mortar. News traveled fast and the accolades kept coming. Buzzfeed and the Travel Channel named them Best Doughnut in Oklahoma and they rank as a top-10 bakery in the entire state. You’ll find many great doughnut options, in addition to some incredible macarons that look as if they were made for royalty.

Chef's Note

Their doughnuts are created with only five basic ingredients: eggs, butter, sugar, salt and flour. The dough takes 24 hours to prepare, and it takes three rises and three folds before hand cutting and frying.

Experience

Our experiences at Belle Kitchen was positive. The area is extremely spacious and has a nice rustic vibe to it. The space was clean, well lit and the staff was nice. The atmosphere was very neighborhood-bakery like, as if it was telling us to slow the eff down and enjoy some doughnuts. We were excited to try the doughnuts and the sexy looking macarons … unfortunately the macarons were thinned out by the time we arrived. Nonetheless, we buckled our chinstraps and dove in.

Review

Appearance

The doughnuts are very aesthetically pleasing. The color combinations with the addition of sprinkles or other toppings make you want to try each and every doughnut that sits behind the glass. The doughnuts are more of a square than your traditional circle, but they have magnificent thickness and rise to them. They are perfectly golden brown — fried to perfection — and look similar to brioche.

Touch

Belle Kitchen doughnuts have your typical yeast-doughnut weight to them. They are light but soft and have a wonderful give to them like you are squeezing a pillow.

Smell

You get a sweet smell of yeast doughnut and glaze. Nothing overpowering, but a soft aroma like it has just left the kitchen.

Taste

The first bite of a Belle Kitchen doughnut is like chomping into a fluffy-glazed cloud from the heavens. They are light, airy and have good structure. Your teeth melt right into the bread, but it still maintains a nice pull and chew to the doughnut. The flavors are good across the board. The glaze and toppings on each doughnut were as good as they looked. Although we typically like more of the traditional glazed flavors with less toppings, we enjoyed every flavor we ordered. Belle Kitchen is absolutely a great spot to get your doughnut fix on your cheat day.

What to Tell Your Friends

Light, fluffy, and airy doughnuts that resemble more of a brioche. The doughnuts taste great and have an alluring springy texture and nice consistency to them.