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Ellie's Old Fashioned Doughnuts

4.9 (60 reviews)
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Emily A.

Really great donuts!! The one pictured is their normal sugar but the maple glazed is the one you need to get!!

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Natalie W.

The line at Ellie's speaks for itself. These are the best cake donuts I have ever had. Super moist, flavorful but still with a bite to it. We got the pumpkin and blueberry pancake and only $3 for both?? Going back to buy a dozen more next time!

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Samm S.

How have I not reviewed yet? These are the best doughnuts in Tennessee. They are hot and FRESH. We always make a point to get them when we see the truck but we recently went out of our way to support with all that's going on in the world right now. We ordered a dozen to keep at home (ended up with 16 bc the owner is so sweet and always gives us extra for the road) and they only lasted 2 days... oops. Every flavor is great but the OG cinnamon sugar is addicting. You can find them at any Downtown Franklin event or the farmers market every Saturday morning.

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Best doughnuts and great service. The owner is great and the doughnuts are always hot. Don't get much better than this.

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Freaking awesome bite sized donuts!!!! Vegan are just as good as traditional. Cinnamon sugar is my favorite.

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ONLY CAKE DONUTS?!?!? When the average person thinks of a…read moredonut they usually think of a yeast donut. The airy donuts that make up the majority of donuts. If you think a bit more you might also think of the denser old fashioned donuts, often the blueberry ones. After a lot of thought you might recall those fairly dense often cinnamon sugar cake donuts. This store only sells CAKE donuts?! That's like someone advertising their store as a full on bakery and then ONLY selling banana nut bread. What's worse is they just sell plain cake donut rings and THEN after purchase slap some glazes and toppings onto them. But hey at least you get to customize your donuts right... right?! NO! The business model wants you to select from preset donut groupings. I was offered the "classic" set of six or the "party" set of six but I just wanted to grab one or two random donuts from a bunch of the different preset groupings. The cashier heard the word random and immediately rang me up for their "random grouping" which is a thing they have but it is not you picking the donuts to go into a random grab bag it is the donut topping jockey choosing them for you?! How is the idea of someone wanting to specifically pick out six different donuts themselves such an unheard of concept for this store? To the credit of the people serving me, when it was understood that there was a miscommunication after I had already paid they offered to let me pick out my donuts. BUT this was when, to my horror I discovered that this place only sold one kind of donut; a plain cake donut, that's it, and then an attendant would grab it with their gloved hand and dip it into this glaze or that glaze to "make it" a specific flavor. I was so disappointed I told the attendant to just top them however she wanted and almost asked to just not have my order fulfilled at all because what do you mean they only have cake donuts! IF you know exactly what you're getting into before you come into this store it is a great establishment for people who specifically enjoy cake donuts. But if you are a more casual donut enjoyer looking for maple bars, old-fashioneds, bavarian creme, literally any donut that is not a cake donut; this store is a massive betrayal of expectations

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