Today on  Food on Fridays I just want to share a better maple idea than last week’s Maple Bacon chips.  Today, it’s an unexpected (to me) Seattle maple speciality, a Maple Bar.

And yes, this is another entry in the doughnut diaries. There’s a doughnut store chain in Seattle called Top Pot that supplies a supermarket here in our neighborhood with fresh doughnuts, delivered daily. The supermarket is in a building that has the “iconic” Wallingford sign, Wallingford being the name of this neighborhood:

Wallingford Sign on the QFC Supermarket, Seattle

So of course it was our duty to sample them, right?

Cake and Raised doughnuts from Top Pot

Those were pretty basic doughnuts (top one is a cake one with a  cinnamon sugar topping, the bottom one is a raised yeast glazed one. Both were OK, but not spectacular.

But then a few days later Chris read somewhere that Top Pot’s specialty is the Maple Bar.  Sso of course we had to try one of those on another day:

Maple Bar, Top Pot Doughnuts

Not a bad use of maple at all, actually. The bar isn’t filled, just topped with a pleasantly maple-tasting icing.

So in case you’ve worried about the Doughnut Diaries, rest assured that there is at least one good doughnut to be had here in Seattle.  We’ll keep trying more as we find them, even if it’s not always a food on Friday at the time.