"No more Boston cream doughnuts and cinnamon buns," he sighed.

Another variation is a chocolate sour cream doughnut with a chocolate orange glaze.

There are pass-the-balloon competitions, and a race to see who can eat a cream doughnut the fastest with their hands behind their back.

But if you wait for the cholesterol advice pendulum to complete its swing, you can probably tuck into a cream doughnut instead.

Variations on a traditional sour cream doughnut include using a maple glaze with a sugar-walnut streusel.

The Boston cream doughnut has been designated the official state doughnut of Massachusetts.

The chocolate cream doughnuts were delicious, filled with whipped cream rather than the usual yellow custard.

Two Boston cream doughnuts.

I ordered a bowl of soup, a sandwich, two Boston Cream doughnuts and a big mug of coffee.

The Boston Screamer, which made its official debut in 2010, is a hamburger served on a Boston cream doughnut.

The keeper threw a cream doughnut across MV's line of sight which allowed him to smother the distracted Aussie's shot.

A sour cream doughnut is a type of donut that incorporates sour cream into the batter of a doughnut.

My favorite things about Scotland: Black pudding/fish suppers, a fresh cream doughnut, but really the best is going home and meeting family and friends, nothing can beat that.

The American "Bavarian Cream doughnuts" are actually filled with a version of a crème pâtissière (pastry cream), causing local linguistic confusion.

A Boston cream doughnut is a name for a Berliner filled with vanilla custard or crème pâtissière and topped with icing made from chocolate.

I had a doughnut today, and a big bag of Maltesers, a French stick filled with chicken mayonnaise and salad, oh, and a cream doughnut too!

SWEETS Christina Morris with a cream doughnut at the Hester Street Fair.

In an informal 1988 poll of Toronto Star readers, Tim Hortons was awarded three gold medals, two for its Dutchies and one to the banana cream doughnut.

The Boston cream doughnut was designated the official doughnut of Massachusetts in 2003 after the Boston cream pie itself was chosen as the state dessert in 1996.

(I made breakfast on my mornings to cook; Kate went to the Nags Head Market and brought home sticky buns and Bavarian cream doughnuts on her days.)

By about 1 p.m., Dominic O'Connor, 23, had eaten a couple of Boston cream doughnuts, six pieces of tuna sushi and dollop of whipped cream straight from the bottle.

Coming Soon: 40 More Places For a Cup of Coffee and a Doughnut There will soon be more chocolate eclairs and Bavarian cream doughnuts in New York City.

The cream or custard-filled varieties usually also feature chocolate icing and are sometimes called Bavarian cream or Boston cream doughnuts (the latter name from its resemblance to Boston cream pie).

On somatic-cell nuclear transfer, the technique used to clone Dolly and others: "The procedure is not unlike removing the custard from the middle of a Boston cream doughnut and refilling the doughnut with jelly," she writes.

And I'm doubly sorry I only had one Bavarian cream doughnut from Lee's Donuts, because it tasted exactly like the ones I adored when I was a kid: with real Bavarian cream.