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We love our neighborhood doughnut shops, but some days we need to get a little more serious about things. The first Friday in June is National Doughnut Day, a holiday so special the government, schools and all businesses (expect doughnut shops) shut down. You got that memo, right?

Following are 10 amazing doughnut shops around North Texas that make us proud.

Golden Crown Cookies and Mochi Donuts

8700 N. Tarrant Parkway, North Richland Hills

This spot just north of Fort Worth was recently included on Yelp's list of top 50 doughnut shops in the country. Golden Crown makes a variety of desserts, including thick cookies and fruit teas. The doughnuts here are mochi-style, a bit chewier than traditional kinds, with unique flavors like ube and pandan.

Detour Doughnuts and Coffee

8161 FM 423, Frisco

Also on Yelp's top 50 list, Detour Doughnuts in Frisco is a local favorite with over the top creations bit on flavor and presentation. We love the bruleed banana cream and they also have a ube cake flavor, and a mango sticky rice was part of a May special that we hope makes the rounds on occasion. No matter whats on the menu, Detour is worth ... the detour.

Urban Donut & Coffee

2805 Allen St. (Uptown)

While other doughnut shops tell you what to look for in a doughnut experience, Urban Donut makes the choice yours with its build-your-own doughnut concept. Step one: choose your doughnut. Yeast? Long john? Step two: choose your icing, frosting or filling. Or all three. Step three: toppings. Finally, step four: find the perfect drizzle or turn your creation into a doughnut shake, ice cream sandwich or lazy sundae. No shame in getting any of the premade flavors like the Ding Dong or Turtle Creek.

La Rue Doughnuts

3011 Gulden Lane (Trinity Groves)

While La Rue Doughnuts is technically the newest doughnut shop to open in Dallas, its three-year run as the bakery side of Carte Blanche made it an obvious addition to this list. The crullers, kolaches, cake doughnuts and other confections here have brought a cult following from Greenville Avenue to La Rue's new home in Trinity Groves. All of the doughnuts are made from scratch. Even the crullers are all turned by hand in the fryer. Following the closure of Carte Blanche, the city practically rejoiced after La Rue announced their doughnut legacy would live on.

Parlor Doughnuts

5100 W. Stacy Road (McKinney, and other locations)

A lot of doughnut shops come from a passion for baking. Parlor Doughnuts, however, culminated from many late nights on the road, while a father followed his son's band across the country. After discovering so many variations of doughnuts and coffee they were inspired to create what they considered to be the best. Here a croissant-like dough is not quite yeast and not quite cake. The flavors are indulgent as they come, with options for vegan, gf and four-legged folks as well. A favorite is the maple pecan.

Moreish Donuts

2605 Fort Worth Ave. (West Dallas)

Aesthetics and Instagrammable branding aside, you're in good hands with any shop labeled with a glowing "DONUT" sign above the door. Moreish is one of those gems and is an unexpected go-to in Oak Cliff for doughnuts. At $1 a pop for any doughnut, Moreish is practically handing them out for free. They're done in the traditional style, but just slightly elevated, which separates them from any ol' doughnut shop.

Jarams Doughnuts

2117 Abrams Road

Jarams Doughnuts is a Lakewood favorite for morning sweets. The doughnut portfolio is a force to be reckoned with, too: funnel cake doughnuts, croissant roll doughnuts, Average Joes, cake, buttermilk and glazed. They're big on events and house parties and can create logo, letter-shaped or themed doughnuts for anything. Watch out for seasonal flavors that are arguably some of the coolest flavors around, like the Father's Day Guinness Doughnuts.

Honeybird Sandwiches, Donuts and Coffee

1941 Preston Road (Plano) and 801 International Parkway

We recently wrote about Honeybird's new location in Plano, which, much like the original in Flower Mound, has over-the-top doughnut confections as well as a mean (in a good way) Spicybird biscuit sandwich. Doughnut flavors here run from birthday cake, tiramisu, cotton candy, tropical mango, banana pudding and Dubai chocolate. There are also cronuts, coffee, fruit drinks and beverages galore. 

Shipley Do-Nuts

Various Locations

Shipley Do-Nuts started in Houston before World War II, and almost nine decades later remains a legend for its simple plain glazed doughnut. So light and fluffy, these morsels are distinct for the pure airiness. If you're lucky enough to get a warm one ... forget about it. The cake doughnuts have a cult following too. Once a local shop changed the shapes just slightly (the hole was smaller) and people were ready to riot. Panic. Fear. Chaos in the streets. The apple fritters are the Rolex of doughnuts. Raise your kids right — raise them on Shipley's. These are priced to move, too; simple and nothing fancy.

Voodoo Doughnut

1806 Greenville Ave.

Voodoo Doughnut's "world doughnut domination" started between two nightclubs in Portland circa 2003 and has since spread to 22 locations across seven states over the last two decades. Luckily, our Texas pride didn't get in the way of this West Coast transplant opening a Dallas location a couple of years ago. We can't help but giggle at the slightly inappropriate and imaginative flavors that range from the Marshall Mathers, a plain cake doughnut covered in white frosting and mini M&Ms, to the Butter Fingering, made with devil’s food cake, vanilla frosting and Butterfinger crumbles.