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2022 Wrapped as a Mini Donut Business in NYC!

We made over 100,000 mini donuts in 2022 🌈🍩😱 Happy New Year, friends! Another year has come and gone. Can you believe that 2023 is our FOURTH year operating this mini donut business in Brooklyn, NYC?! I remember in 2019 counting that we made over 10k donuts and being so proud. How far we've come - especially during a pandemic! Here's how busy we were in 2022 - 100,000+ mini donut made101 corporate and private catering gigs186 local deliveries in NYC22 events at 2 Smorgasburg locations$5k+ donated with The Gay Donut™️ (we registered the Trademark too!)1 James Beard panel with Queer Food Foundation4 custom dessert menus for Broadway shows1 custom dessert menu for Alicia Keys3 new hires1 new commercial kitchen (heyyy, Nimbus...

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Behind the Scenes: Custom Mini Donuts for Broadway Musical A Strange Loop

Custom mini donuts for A Strange Loop, Tony Winner for Best Musical Bites are Back on Broadway! This time we're taking on the most recent winner of the Tony for Best Musical, A Strange Loop! We're HUGE fans of this incredible show, and were simply over the moon to create these custom desserts for the cast + crew for the Lyceum Theatre in NYC! If you haven't seen it yet (what are you waiting for?) it coins itself as a "Big, Black, Queer-Ass American Broadway Show" and tackles themes from the queer experience, to racism in entertainment, to generational trauma - all while nodding to Grindr, poppers, and so many other gay NYC references. As a queer-owned bakery in Brooklyn, NYC...

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Pride Month with The Gay Donut!

Well, June has come and gone which means that we made it through Pride Month! While we're proud to be Queer All Year, our Gay Donut was busyyy as the unofficial Pride dessert of New York City. Here are some re-caps:  20,748: We made almost 21,000 Gay Donuts! Read that again. Can you even imagine that many Pride desserts?! We couldn't, that's for sure. But with the help of our awesome assistants and the graciousness of our clients, we were able to pull it off without a hitch.    When we first went into June, we had an internal goal of booking 25 events throughout the month. Little did we know the whirlwind ahead. We're so excited to have expanded...

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Bites on Broadway!

Our Bites have been all over Broadway recently!  We love the support we've gained from the Broadway community by doing custom menus for shows and companies. Did you know that we've made Bites for The Lion King, Waitress, Moulin Rouge, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Mr. Saturday Night, and Jagged Little Pill? What shows do you want to see us make Bites for next?! In the meantime, check out some exciting shout-outs and Broadway collaborations that we've had!   First, we were featured on The Music Man's "Pick-A-Little Business Saturday."       Then we delivered some "Good Luck" Gay Donuts to Tony-nominee Shoshana Bean at Mr. Saturday Night.   And now we're truly thrilled to be included on the Big, Black,...

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