North America
- Canada
- Bannock - also called frybread
- BeaverTails pastries - registered trademark, oblong shaped fried dough, like American elephant ears
- Toutins - fried bits of leftover bread dough, often served with molasses.
- Mexico
- Buñuelo (also known as the "Mexican Fried Cookie") - essentially a round, cookie-shaped doughnut, often pan-fried rather than deep fried.
- Churro - a thin cylinder of deep-fried pastry with a characteristic 'ridged' surface, due to being extruded through a star shaped hole. It is also popular in the US where it is sometimes referred to a "Mexican Doughnut". In Mexico, churros are often had for breakfast or in local fiestas, matched with thick chocolate or white coffee. They are sometimes homemade or bought frozen to fry at home, but most are bought at cafes or from fixed or ambulatory churrerías.
- United States
- Funnel cake - a creation which is made with fried sweet pastry where the pastry dough is extruded through a funnel into a pan of hot oil and allowed to "criss-cross" in the oil until the string of dough fills the bottom of the pan in a kind of tangled spaghetti-like arrangement, which is cooked as a cake rather than an individual snack. Funnel cakes are usually associated with carnivals, fairs, amusement parks, and seaside towns, much like cotton candy.
- Frybread (also known as "popovers") is a Native American fried dough which may range from bread-like to donut-like depending on the source, as many tribes use different recipes.
- Hushpuppies - savory fried dough balls made from a heavy cornmeal batter
- Elephant ears - Fairground specialty, a large, flat round fried yeast dough, often covered in fruit or sugar, also called fried bread, fried dough, beaver tails, whales tails, tiger ears, pizza frita, frying saucers, doughboys
- Sopaipilla - a fried dough side dish or dessert popular among Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. Sopaipillas puff with air when fried, the finished product resembling a pillow. They are often served with honey, but may also be sprinkled with a cinnamon and sugar mixture. Sopaipillas are characteristic of Tex-Mex or New Mexican cuisine.
- Beignet - French-American (New Orleans) deep-fried choux pastry covered with confectioner's sugar
- Fried Coke - a creation made in the summer of 2006 which has proven very popular in Texas. Batter is mixed with Coca-Cola syrup and fried, after which it is topped with more Coke syrup or whipped cream, a cherry, etc.
- Fritter is any kind of food coated in batter and deep fried. Although very similar to a doughnut it differs in the fact that it requires some base ingredient beyond the dough it is cooked with.
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