National Doughnut Day Freebies, Deals, And Recipes (Updated for 2023)

National Doughnut Day Freebies

Duck Donuts

Get a free cinnamon sugar doughnut when you visit Duck Donuts, in-shop only. There’s no purchase necessary to get the freebie.

Early Bird Donuts

Get a free glazed doughnut, while supplies last.

Grater’s Ice Cream

​Get a free doughnut with any coffee purchase, while supplies last.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

Get a free doughnut of your choice. Any doughnut, all day. No purchase necessary. 

This is valid for in-store customers only (not valid on online orders).

LaMar’s Donuts And Coffee

Get a free original glazed donut all day long. No purchase necessary.

National Doughnut Day Deals

Dunkin’

Get a free classic donut of your choice with any beverage purchase (excluding espresso shots). The purchase of a beverage and donut must be in the same transaction.

Classic donuts include Boston Kreme, Glazed, Jelly Filled, Apple N’ Spice, French Cruller, and more. 

Food Lion

Four count cinnamon roll doughnut packs are on sale for $2.99 with your MVP card. Through June 6.

Harris Teeter

Tastykake doughnut packages are on sale for $2.19. Plus get $.45 back with Ibotta. Through June 6.

Kane’s Donuts

If you purchase a dozen Kane’s Donuts, you’ll get a free small Stella Blue Coffee.

If you can’t make it to the very popular Massachusetts-based chain, you can now order Kane’s Donuts on Goldbelly. You won’t get a free coffee, but you’ll get your doughnut fix.

Shipley Do-Nuts

Get a free glazed do-nut with any purchase, while supplies last. This is valid in stores or online. If you’re ordering online, use the promo code Donutday23 at checkout.

Stan’s Donuts

Get a free glazed cake donut with any purchase.

Stan’s is also offering a trio of deals Friday through Sunday, including: get an Original Stanwich with any purchase on June 3 (for mobile app users only); get a free small lemonade with hot honey cream with any purchase on June 4 (for mobile app users only). 

Sugarbox Donuts

Get a free doughnut with any purchase.

Tim Horton’s

Tims Rewards members can get a free donut when you buy a donut. This is valid in the mobile app or on online orders at participating US restaurants only. Not valid in Canada.

Top Pot Doughnuts

Pre-order your doughnuts on by May 31 for pickup on June 2 and save 10% on your total.

Quick note: Top Pot Doughnuts is a Pacific Northwest chain based in Seattle, Washington.

National Doughnut Day Sweepstakes

Legendary Doughnuts

Purchase any doughnut and you’ll be entered for a chance to win free doughnuts for a year (one dozen doughnuts a month for a year).

Plus, a purchase of a Red Bull Spritzer or Red Bull Smoothie enters you for a chance to win a four-pack of movie tickets (1 prize per store), four Wild Wave Tickets (1 prize company wide) or a $200 Anthony’s Restaurant gift card (1 prize company wide). 

Quick note: Legendary Doughnuts is a Pacific Northwest chain, which I got to check out when I was in Issaquah, Washington. It’s really good.

Order Doughnuts Online:

If you don’t feel like going out for doughnuts, but now you want a dozen, you can just order doughnuts online with the following delivery services:

• Goldbelly
• Grubhub
• Instacart

National Doughnut Day Recipes

Bacon, Egg, And Cheese Doughnut Breakfast Sandwich

Breakfast sandwiches are a great way to start your day. But who needs a classic breakfast sandwich on National Doughnut Day? Not you.

Instead, make our Bacon, Egg, And Cheese Doughnut Breakfast Sandwich. This breakfast sandwich uses a glazed doughnut, cut in half, instead of sandwich bread.

Care Bears Grumpy Bear Doughnuts

This is a little less of a recipe and more of a Care Bears Grumpy Bear Doughnuts tutorial. But it still fits in this category.

You can start with a dozen store-bought doughnuts, or you can make your own homemade doughnuts for decorating. Honestly, the decorating takes a pretty long time, so it would end up being an all day project to bake the doughnuts, let them cool, then decorate them like Grumpy Bear.

Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut Holes

Very often, I play in the kitchen then take half of my sweet treat to my parents’ house.

One of those treats that I perfected, and shared with my parents, was Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut Holes. They’re so delicious and so easy to make.

Vampire Donuts

Just like the Care Bears Grumpy Bear Doughnuts above, this is a tutorial, not a recipe. These Vampire Donuts are made from store-bought doughnuts and decorated to look like vampires.

This is definitely more of a Halloween idea rather than National Doughnut Day, but you can really make them whenever you want.

Christmas Donut Hole Tree (aka Donut Croquembouche)

This tutorial makes a lot more sense for Christmas, but if you just skip the star on top, it’s perfect for National Doughnut Day.

​Pick up donut holes at your local doughnut shop, stick them with toothpicks, and affix them to a Styrofoam cone. Continue until you’ve filled the entire cone. It’s that simple.

Homemade Banana Doughnuts

Homemade doughnuts are really easy to make, as long as you have a doughnut pan and a recipe.

This post calls them wedding favors, but honestly, you can make them for any occasion — like National Doughnut Day — or, really, for no reason at all.

National Doughnut Day: Frequently Asked Questions