Uniquely Springfield-- Part 9: Mel-O-Cream Donuts

You can get your Kicks on 66, but for a sugar fix you should go to Mel-O-Cream which has been making those delicious morsels in Springfield for over 80 years.  You can get cake donuts, cream-filled donuts, old fashioned, iced donuts, glazed donuts, apple fritters, long johns, cinnamon twists and donut holes and lots of different types of each of these.

Their iced donuts are only second to Britt's Donuts in Carolina Beach, N.C., but there you can have any kind of donut you want as long as it is a white glazed one.

There are four locations in Springfield to tempt you and are frequently winners in the Best Donut category in Illinois Times' Best of Springfield awards.

I go to the one at 3010 S. Sixty Street which is a short distance north of the Route 66 Hotel and Convention Center.  Quite often, I walk over to this place for morning sweets.  And, believe me, they are real good.

I just found out there is a Mel-O-Cream Donuts place in Lincoln, Illinois.  I'll keep that in mind the next time in town.

--RoadDonut