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A traditional cruller (or twister) is a twisted, oblong, fried pastry
Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baking made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder or Egg s. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked goods are called "pastries"....
 made of dough somewhat like that of a cake doughnut
Doughnut

A doughnut is a sweet, deep-fried piece of dough or batter . The two most common types are the torus-shaped ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere injected with jam, jelly, cream, custard, or other sweet filling....
, often topped with plain powdered sugar
Powdered sugar

Powdered sugar, also known as confectioner's sugar or icing sugar, is granulated sucrose that has been ground into a very fine powder....
; powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon
Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree 10?15 metres tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.The leaf are ovate-oblong in shape, 7?18 cm long....
; or icing
Icing (food)

Icing, also called frosting, is a sweet Glaze made of sugar that often also contains butter, water, egg whites, milk, or flavorings and is used to cover or cake decorating baked goods, such as cakes or cookies....
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The name can also refer to the French cruller, a fluted, ring-shaped doughnut made from choux pastry
Choux pastry

P?te ? choux, translated literally meaning "cabbage paste" because of it was originally made in a way that resembled the vegetable, German Brandteig) is a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, croquembouches, ?clair s, French crullers, beignets, Indonesian kue sus, and goug?res....
 with a light airy texture.

The name comes from early 19th century Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
 kruller, from krullen "to curl".






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Chocolate Cruller Doughnut
A traditional cruller (or twister) is a twisted, oblong, fried pastry
Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baking made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder or Egg s. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked goods are called "pastries"....
 made of dough somewhat like that of a cake doughnut
Doughnut

A doughnut is a sweet, deep-fried piece of dough or batter . The two most common types are the torus-shaped ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere injected with jam, jelly, cream, custard, or other sweet filling....
, often topped with plain powdered sugar
Powdered sugar

Powdered sugar, also known as confectioner's sugar or icing sugar, is granulated sucrose that has been ground into a very fine powder....
; powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon
Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree 10?15 metres tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.The leaf are ovate-oblong in shape, 7?18 cm long....
; or icing
Icing (food)

Icing, also called frosting, is a sweet Glaze made of sugar that often also contains butter, water, egg whites, milk, or flavorings and is used to cover or cake decorating baked goods, such as cakes or cookies....
.

The name can also refer to the French cruller, a fluted, ring-shaped doughnut made from choux pastry
Choux pastry

P?te ? choux, translated literally meaning "cabbage paste" because of it was originally made in a way that resembled the vegetable, German Brandteig) is a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, croquembouches, ?clair s, French crullers, beignets, Indonesian kue sus, and goug?res....
 with a light airy texture.

The name comes from early 19th century Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
 kruller, from krullen "to curl". Crullers are traditionally eaten in Germany and some other European countries on Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday is a term used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia for the day preceding the first day of the Christian season of fasting and prayer called Lent....
, to use up fat before Lent
Lent

Lent, in Christianity, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. Conventionally it is described as being forty days long, though different Christian denominations calculate the forty days differently....
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Crullers are most commonly found in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, New England
New England

New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern corner of the country, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada and New York State, and consisting of the modern U.S....
 and the Mid-Atlantic
Mid-Atlantic States

The Mid-Atlantic States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau....
 and North Central states
Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau....
 of the USA, but it is also common in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
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In 2003, the Dunkin' Donuts chain of doughnut shops stopped carrying traditional crullers, claiming that the hand-shaped treats were too labor-intensive, and couldn't be simulated with new machines for mixing doughnut batter.

Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons

Tim Hortons Inc. is a Canadian fast food restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts. It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario by Canadian Ice hockey player Tim Horton....
, and Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme is a chain of doughnut stores. Its parent company is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. , based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States....
  still sell the Cruller, while Dunkin' Donuts only carries the French Cruller. In place of the traditional cruller, Dunkin' Donuts now sells several variations of a substitute product it calls a "cake stick" which is a simplified, machine-made version of the more elaborately twisted hand-made variety.

The term "Chinese cruller" is occasionally applied to the youtiao
Youtiao

Youtiao, you char kway, or yau ja gwai , sometimes known in English as Chinese cruller fried bread stick or Chinese doughnut, is a long, golden-brown, deep frying strip of dough in Chinese cuisine and other East Asia and Southeast Asian cuisines and is usually eaten for breakfast....
, a similar-looking fried dough food eaten in East and Southeast Asia.