TREMONTON – Donuts are a popular treat in Utah. Some standalone bakeries are famous for their donuts and then there are grocery stores that make them.
Grocery stores are busy anyway but when a bakery is at the entrance it is hard not to take advantage of a sweet donut within arm’s reach.
Kents Market in Tremonton has it figured out. They sell a lot of donuts every day. The bakery is next to the entrance and as soon as shoppers walk through the front entrance the smells from the bakery lure the customers to the donut cases. People grab a cart and smell the donuts and that’s all it takes; they open the glass doors and grab some fresh pastries and bag them as they begin their shopping excursion.
By noon all the good stuff is pretty well picked over.
Shad Tanner is retired and moved from Salt Lake to Garland about 10 years ago and frequents Kent’s Market donut shop.
“I come in here three or four time a week and buy a couple of donuts,” he said as he picked one for him and one for his son, Josh. “This is good stuff.”
There is a lot more to making donuts and other fresh pastries than most people know.
The dough is made up the night before the donuts are cut out and put in the freezer. Donut makers come in at 3 a.m. to finish the process and begin cooking the donuts at 4 a.m. By 6 a.m. the donuts, fritters, twists and maple and chocolate bars are frosted, decorated and on trays ready for the public when the store opens at 6:30 a.m.
When Kent’s Market opens its doors the students and teachers come to get their pastry fix and head back to their classes, said Sophia Yoe who has worked at the bakery for about three years.
Some of Kent’s donuts ready for someone to bag and take home on Friday Oct. 25 2024.
“Glazed donuts are the most popular and on a regular day they make 200 of them,” she said. “The donut of the month for October was the Butter Beer donut, it is also quite popular. During Halloween the decorated glazed donuts with orange frosting had some spiders made of icing and other scary things.”
Yoe said they have amazing decorators that make the donuts look pretty cool.
At the end of the day, they box what hasn’t sold in six, eight and 12 count boxes and put them near the cash registers. Those donuts also sell pretty quick.
This year the Kent’s Market donuts were voted Best of Northern Utah. And seeing how fast they go any morning it makes sense they are a big deal in Tremonton with a population of just shy of 10,000 residents.