Donut Maker

Pretty mediocre donuts — we walked in around 10:30 am on a Thursday and unfortunately only saw a small variety of donuts. I guess being a mom and pop shop, they run out pretty early in the mornings.
Of the donuts we got, our favorite was the cinnamon and the chocolate/​sprinkles. The others weren’t anything special and the cream filled one was extremelyyy sweet, like none of the 5 dudes on my team could even finish it.
Probably won’t be back unless we’re really craving donuts.

Excellent donuts, helpful and very friendly staff, and the best donuts I’ve had in town! Try the maple bacon donuts — they’re amazing!

I love mom and pop donut places! This place has decent donuts at a cheap price.
Their regular donuts are like pillows of dough. Yum! I really liked the lemon glaze with poppyseed.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the cake donuts though. They were sickeningly sweet and the the toppings (Oreo and fruity pebbles) were kind of stale. Avoid these and get other kinds to satisfy your donut cravings.

Without question, the best donuts I have had in Denver. This is how a donut shop should be. If you like good donuts as much as I do, try it out. I recommend the blueberry or lemon poppyseed, but you really can’t go wrong.

Great local spot! Service is good and the owner was there on site and even took my order. Being new to town Ryan (owner) was nice and friendly to give me the 37 year history of the store.
We will be back.

I came here because Waltons donuts were sold out in the two locations I tried, these were pretty comparable which isn’t easy. I would try these again when Waltons is out

We loved Donut Maker! So far it’s our favorite donut in the area– beating out VooDoos, LaMars, and Krispy Crème. It’s a bit hard to find, our GPS was confused. It is in the strip mall to the east of Krispy Crème. Friendly faces, yummy donuts, reasonable prices! We’ll definitely be back! :)

Since it’s National Donut day, everywhere I went had a «Sold Out» sign… everywhere but here! And man, I am glad I stopped in. They were so friendly and had a constant flow of hot fresh donuts. These were heavenly! I had the maple and my kiddo had one with sprinkles.

I feel like this place is a hidden gem. I had driven by it for about two years before trying it. The donuts are fresh and taste great. It’s a great place to pick up donuts if you are brining them to the office. They don’t have a lot of seating inside so it’s more of a grab and go. The have a great variety of donuts but be sure to go early on a Friday morning or other busy times.

Been 4 times now — Better than anything else in Denver, even LaMar’s and VooDoo IMHO! And way cheaper than the competitors! You can tell they make the donuts fresh daily from their own recipes — they are so good (and local) they ***sometimes run out!*** We call ahead now if its later than 9:30a just to make sure — as once we stopped by at 10a (they close at 11a) and there was a note on the door stating they were sold out! We had to try again because if you’re right next door to Dunkin Donuts Drive Thru, and you sold out… and its not even a holiday… you gotta be good.
I’m not a fan of cake donuts but my coworkers praise the blueberry cakes and old-fashioned’s. My fave’s are plain, (love plain glazed) lemon poppyseed, and maple. MMMMmmmMMMM! I didn’t care for their Bear Claw, they said it was a cocoa nutella filling but I tasted no nutella. Weird flavor mix going on. Not sure about the cereal ones, someone else said they weren’t good. Personally I don’t like anything crunchy on top of my soft donuts so I haven’t tried them. I haven’t tried their coffee either — but I never smell coffee walking in so maybe that’s why. All in all, I am totally a fan for when picking up Donuts for the office!

We were watching Donut Showdown and decided to search for the nearest donut shop to the DTC, and found the Donut Maker. Unfortunately it was closed since it was Easter Sunday thankfully the owner, Ryan, greeted us and provided us with the donuts we were craving. The donuts were amazing and I can’t wait to go back. Also I can’t believe the unbelievable service. Easily 5 stars.

If there is one thing I try to avoid in the morning it’s donuts. However, if I do have the urge to have some this is absolutely the spot to come to. Not only are the donuts fresh and good but the staff is super friendly and will certainly lift your spirits if you happen to be groggy. They are also big on customer service. See, I normally only eat Boston Crème donuts and on a few occasions they were out. In the back of my mind I keep thinking: don’t make me go to Dunkin’ Donuts (next door). Instead, they offer to custom make a couple for me! Needless to say, this place is pretty great!

We are big donut fans so we stopped on our way out of Denver. We were there at about 8:00 in the morning, so the donuts were fairly fresh. We were excited to try lots of different kinds end wound up with about a dozen donuts for 2 people (uff da). We were very intrigued by the cereal donuts, however they were a major let down. On almost all of them the cereal was very stale. It also didn’t really add to the flavor at all.
The raised donuts were pretty dry for our taste, like you’re eating bread. The cake donuts were good, not the best ever, but pretty good. I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to stop again, but I’ll give them credit for trying to be unique with their flavors, and it’s still a donut, even if it’s not a great donut, it beats most other foods.

I help run a rather large event, so I only visit the Donut Maker about once a year. However, I pick up 8 – 10 dozen donuts at a time, as well as coffee. The Donut Maker is by far the cheapest (and most delicious) place to buy massive quantities of donuts anywhere in the Denver area. And it always seems to be the same lovely lady that’s there every year, and she remembers me (or at least our event) every time I come in.
Delicious, cheap, and friendly. You can’t get any better.

I’ve been patronizing Donut Maker for years and, as the reviews show, you will not get a better donut from anyone anywhere. These are the best donuts you will ever have. I’m a native New Englander and grew up around some independent shops as well as the usual suspect that’s on every corner. If you want to kick your status up at work a few notches, bring a dozen or so of these to your boss/​coworkers.
OK, here’s the bad news: Their coffee is flavored water; just plain bad. Unless you’re going to gorge right there in the store, not a big deal. But all they have to do is serve one or two robust blends.

The other reviews are accurate. This place is fantastic!
Came in around 9am on a snowy Monday morning. They had already been picked of a lot of the selection. I needed a dozen to take to work. Ryan, the owner, took great care of me. He even threw in a couple extra since the selection was a bit low. The cookies and cream donut is awesome. They make their own filling! The donuts were soft and fresh and not oily. Everyone at work loved them. I guess you could say that the Donut Maker might just make you the most popular person at work!
Ryan said they don’t use a machine to make the donuts and do it all by hand. This gets these guys an extra star in my opinion. Dunkin Donuts opened like almost right next door to these guys, if you are in need of donuts make sure to come to Donut Maker. You won’t regret it. One of the best donuts in Colorado and THE BEST South of I-​70

Love this donut place is so convenience it’s close to work also all the workers are especially nice the Baker is amazing she is the hardest worker I’ve ever seen

Very close to Dunkin, but so very different
Dunkin experience — Bake your doughnuts in a factory, partially freeze, ship long distance, and warm up. I lived in CT for multiple years and always was hurt by the lack of good donuts. It hurt.
My fear is that these crappy doughnuts from Dunkin will turn Denver into the doughnut wasteland that is CT.
Only time will tell.
Donut Maker is everything Dunkin isn’t. All doughnuts are made fresh, on premise, and daily. The people working there have been working there for years.
The selection is always interesting, and they normally have my favorite — a chocolate glazed long john with vanilla cream.
They are always friendly, and they always throw in a couple doughnut holes for the kids.
I, for one, may buy coffee from Dunkin
but for Doughnuts i’ll be here or the Donut (further down Arapaho toward the mountains)

Gotta give it up for this locally owned shop. A chain donut company just opened, around the corner from them, so I hope that they continue to have loyal business to support them.
They offer freshly made, creative donuts like the nutella/​chocolate filled one I enjoyed today. They offer fun toppings like various cereals, lots of different fillings and frostings, and more! My kids had a very hard time deciding what donut they wanted.
It’s a simple shop but the guys working this morning were so kind! I love that they looked each of my children in the eye to tell them good morning, and were genuine in taking their order and made a point to hand them each a bag with their carefully thought out donut decision. They even included a donut hole for each of them! (And I appreciated they asked me first.)
I left with a dozen assorted (told him to include their favorites/​specialties), and it was only $ 9.50! Plus the kids’ picks, a couple chocolate milks, and one for me too :) I love this place and will absolutely make them my go-​to donut shop from now on!
**EDIT: After I originally wrote my review, I was gushing about this place to my husband. He works in outside sales and regularly brings donuts when visiting his customers. He usually gets those national «hot and fresh» donuts, but I convinced him that since most of his customer are locally owned businesses, that they would definitely appreciate him bringing donuts from another locally owned business. The next day he picked up 5+ dozen to distribute to a few offices, and had his customers thanking him for supporting local, as well as being incredibly excited about the quality and uniqueness of the donuts he brought. Definitely a win-​win! He assured me he will only use Donut Maker in the future.

Donuts! What more needs to be said? Well, get here early because they do run out of items pretty quickly.
I arrived here today (Friday), probably one of their most popular days, around 8:45 am and there were quite a few people ahead of me, patiently waiting. I was worried that they would run out of donuts, but it all worked out. There was a huge variety of donuts, from the regular and chocolate glazed donuts, plain and glazed old-​fashioned, raspberry or plain glazed French crullers, bear claws, cake donuts with sprinkles, maple glazes and anything else your heart desires. The specialty donuts and flavors were mostly gone, but I managed to snag a lemon zest donut that looked like a glazed donut with lemon filling and topped with lemon zest. I pronounce it delicious!
Prices were reasonable. I think I purchased 18 – 20 donuts for $ 16 with tax. This donut shop is located near Dayton & Arapahoe in a strip mall shopping center and is open from 5A-​11 A. They also serve coffee here, but not sure if it was just drip coffee. They didn’t appear to have fancy coffee, if that’s your bag. They also threw in some donut holes too, which was just icing on the ca. . err, donut. :-)