What makes Your Mom’s Donuts so amazing?
All it takes is a few local ingredients to make the same kind of doughnuts as Your Mom’s, right? Wrong.
Each doughnut at Your Mom’s Donuts is individually mixed, blended and cut to give it a unique quality.
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//><!--Owners Benjamin and Courtney Frye have only been in the doughnut business for a short time but have created quite a name for themselves in the local community.//--><!
The Fryes started the business in October 2013 and opened the Matthews storefront in July 2014.
First trip to #YourMomsDonuts in Matthews. So good! Get one w/ bacon, homemade marshmallow, and bourbon Honey glaze! pic.twitter.com/peEADwzvEQ — Dave Kulp (@Simba_F3) September 27, 2014
The process:
-Your Mom’s Donuts uses mostly organic and local ingredients, including their choice of frying oil: pork leaf lard.
“It’s all about the texture of the doughnut and how it looks after frying,” Benjamin Frye said.
-Frye wakes up at 12:30 a.m. on the weekdays and 10 p.m. the night before on the weekends to prepare for the day.
-Every doughnut is made by hand. That means mixing the dough, cutting the dough, frying the doughnut and decorating the doughnut.
“It’s a lot of long hours but I feel good about the food that I am making and want to keep that same quality for our customers,” Frye said.
-He typically makes 90 dozen doughnuts on the weekends and about 30 dozen during the week.
The doughnuts
Best donuts I’ve ever had #ohmygosh #yourmomsdonuts #SHINE2015
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//><!---Frye has created hundreds of different flavors and combinations over the past two years. “I will take suggestions and see if those combinations work,” he said. “Some do work, while others just don’t sell as well as we hoped.”//--><!
-As a big doughnut fan, I have eaten many different flavors from Your Mom’s including the most popular: cinnamon sugar. It starts with the basic dough and then the warm doughnut is rolled in cinnamon sugar and it melts in your mouth as you take a bite.
-The mojito, and strawberry and lavender doughnuts are different than anything I’ve seen in other shops.
They deliver?
–Yep.
-The store delivers to homes and work addresses within 10 miles of the Matthews shop Wednesday through Friday, during regular business hours.
-Preorder your doughnuts by emailing yourmomsdonuts@hotmail.com by 6 p.m. the night before to have them put aside for the next day’s deliveries.
They’re so popular.
-Your Mom’s Donuts is open Wednesday through Sunday. Doughnuts typically sell out early on the weekends so, if you want them, you’d better start looking for your car keys.
#YourMomsDonuts = I am mom of the year today. #SpoiledKids
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Photo by Meagan Carpenter.
This story was originally published May 19, 2015 at 12:59 AM with the headline "What makes Your Mom’s Donuts so amazing?."