She describes them as the type of treat you can eat with coffee in the morning, but can also bring to dinner at a friend’s house. The homemade taste is something Buist takes pride in. The shop even boasts two gluten-free and one vegan offering. Each is 100-percent natural, whereas most store-bought doughnuts are made with preservatives and artificial flavoring. The ingredients are what make each doughnut special, Buist said. So you have people who prefer just the regular vanilla doughnut, then you have people who love all the fancier stuff, too.

It’s interesting because everyone has their favorite doughnuts. 'We have a whole bunch of things on the backburner, like a peanut butter and jelly one that’s delicious,' she said. And Buist intends to swap out two flavors every month to try out new concoctions. The shop offers several kinds, from the lemon-filled When Life Gives You Lemons to Just One More Chai, which features a chai tea glaze with a dash of cinnamon. Twice the Dough gives doughnut lovers plenty to get excited about. He said people were going to crazy over this place, and they have.' My husband has always loved doughnuts and he was right about how much other people love them, too. 'I can’t believe how many people in Park City love doughnuts,' Buist said. Nearly every day, customers scoop up nearly all of the the 400 or 500 doughnuts the bakery makes fresh daily. Their doughnut shop, Twice the Dough, opened earlier this month. But still, she wondered whether others in town were quite as passionate about the fried pastries as her husband. She was game, on one condition: The doughnuts had to be made of all-natural ingredients so they could feed them to their two daughters. Her husband, a lover of sweet treats, wanted to open a doughnut shop in Park City.

Shannon Buist was a little bit skeptical.

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