Where to get gluten-free donuts in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to mark World Donut Day

World Donut Day is on Friday June 6. So what do you do if you want some doughnut action but have specific dietary requirements? Here are some sweet spots in Melbourne’s east that fit the bill.

How did World Donut Day start?

World Donut Day started in America after the Salvation Army had volunteers bake and serve doughnuts to soldiers in France during World War I. The so-called “Donut Girls” often used spare equipment to help bake the sweet treats, including using empty wine bottles as rolling pins and tin cans as cutters.

The first Donut Day in the US was on June 7, 1938.

Where to get a doughnut in the eastern suburbs

Daniel’s Donuts

Daniel’s Donuts has a small selection of vegan doughnut flavours including jam and cream, custard and original glaze. There is also vegan, gluten-free cinnamon or jam-filled. Both are wrapped individually to avoid cross-contamination with other doughnuts.

Where: Eastland Shopping Centre, Chirnside Park Shopping Centre, Stud Park Shopping Centre plus locations in Burwood and Clayton South.

Cost: From $4.90 for a single gluten-free or vegan doughnut to $22 per gluten-free six-pack or from $39 per vegan 12-pack.

Happy Dough

Doughnuts here are automatically gluten-free and soy-free with a range of flavours for those who are vegan or not, including original cinnamon, lamington and lemon crème.

Choose from already decorated doughnuts or have them made fresh then choose your fillings.

Where: Eastland Shopping Centre.

Cost: From $3 per single cinnamon doughnut to $5.50 per single iced or specialty doughnut.

OMG! Decadent Donuts

You may have seen OMG! Decadent Donuts around the east at local weekend farmers markets. They make doughnuts “regardless of whether the person has food allergies, intolerances, is vegan or follows a diet based on beliefs, culture, or religion”. Doughnuts are plant-based, gluten-free, wheat-free, egg-free, dairy-free, nut-free, sulphite-free and preservative-free.

They are also Coeliac Australia accredited and Vegan Australia certified. Order the number of doughnuts you want then choose flavoured sugars and toppings. You can also buy doughnut holes.

Where: Upwey Community Market, Nunawading Craft Market, and the Whitehorse Farmers Market. Check the website for event announcements and other locations.

Cost: From $3 for a single doughnut or $20 for a six-pack.

Gluten Free 4 U

Here, you can find packs of gluten-free iced, jam-filled and cinnamon gluten-free doughnuts. Some packs are also vegan. If you want to make your own doughnuts at home, there is a vegan, gluten-free doughnut flour mix.

Where: 243 Dorset Road, Boronia.

Cost: $9 to $28 depending on the size of the doughnut pack. Doughnut flour mixes $11 per pack or $45 for five kilograms.

Just Yummy Gluten Free Bakers

The gluten-free bakery is allergy-friendly and bakes to cater to people with food intolerances or other dietary restrictions.

Assorted gluten-free doughnuts are also vegan and nut free. Choose from cinnamon, iced, jam or custard flavours.

Where: 13 Meadowgate Drive, Chirnside Park.

Cost: From $3.40 to $4.50 for single cinnamon, iced, jam or custard doughnuts.