Created by Dominique Ansell, the cronut (a hybrid of croissant donuts) is an epic dessert introduced last year. The pastry is often combined with other foods, making it even more of a hybrid. This can result in confectionary perfection or savoury glutton, but either way it is usually delicious. Given the cronut's rise in popularity, it has sparked numerous donut-themed mixtures.
With other options like cream coated cronuts, chocolate-flavored bacon cronuts and donut-tart hybrid desserts, the mashup possibilities are endless. Similar to the bacon cronuts, other meat-stuffed celebration desserts have popped up. This includes a cronut burger found on America's west coast. Nutella cronut holes have also surfaced, from the cronut creator no less, to celebrate the hazelnut spread's 50th anniversary.
16 Hybrid Donuts
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Waffle Donut Desserts
Chicago's Waffle Cafe's Wonut Combines a Breakfast Staple and Sugary Treat
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Homemade Hybrid Cronuts
The Banana Cream Pillsbury Crescent Doughnuts is a Delicious Knock-Off
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Chocolate Croissant Donut Holes
Dominique Ansel Bakery is Debuting Nutella Cronut Holes in NYC
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Chocolate-Flavored Bacon Cronuts
These 'Squats' Square Cronuts are Covered in Nutella & Bacon Bits
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Macaron Donut Hybrids
The Macaronut From Pix Patisserie in Portland Combines Two Global Desserts
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Decadent Donut Desserts
The Donut and Waffle Hybrid From DK Donuts Come in a Variety of Flavors
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Spicy Ramen Donuts
Japanese Restaurant Osaka Ohsho Debuts a Limited Edition Dish
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Croissant Muffin Hybrids
The Confectionery Cruffin by Mr. Homes Bakehouse is a Tasty Pastry Mashup
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Croissant Donut Desserts
Dunkin Donuts Will be Releasing Their Own Limited Edition of the Cronut
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Hybrid Waffle Donuts
These Krispy Kreme Waffles Make for the Sweetest Breakfast of All Time
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Meat-Stuffed Celebration Desserts
The Turkey Donut Was Made Just in Time for Thanksgivukkah
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Hybrid Dessert Donuts
Krispy Kreme Japan Now Makes Donuts Out of Waffles and Cream Puffs
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Donut-Tart Hybrid Desserts
The Donart by The Green Radish Could Be the Next Cronut
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Sugary Brioche Cronuts
The Brioche Feuilletée or 'Bronut' is the Latest Flaky Hybrid Pastry
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Charitable Celebrity Cronuts
The 24K Gold Leaf Cronut Benefits God's Love We Deliver Foundation
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Donut Cannoli Hybrids
Frangelli’s Bakery’s Scrumptious Donnoli is a Mix of a Donut and a Cannoli
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Super Stuffed Donuts
This Apple Fritter and Custard-Filled Donut is Glazed in Chocolate Too
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Stuffed Cinnamon Donuts
Chef Thiago Silva Combined Two Popular Flakey Pastries into a Hybrid Treat
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Cannoli Cronut Confections
This Cronut Creation is Filled with Homemade Cannoli Ice Cream
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Hot Sauce-Glazed Cronuts
This Bacon Sriracha Cresnut is Available From DK's Donuts of Orange
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Campfire Confectionary Hybrids
Food Beast Created Donut S'mores for National Donut Day 2014
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Monstrous Cronut Burger Hybrids
This Frankenstein Creation Combines the Cronut and Umami Burger
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Cannoli Donut Hybrids
This Yummy Cannoli Dessert from Oh, Bite It! is a Mashup with a Glazed Donut
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Biscuit Donut Hybrids
The Bisnut Combines the Look of a Donut with the Texture of a Biscuit
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