Is a doughnut a cake or not?

Maybe a Pastry?

Since there are 'cake' donuts and 'yeast' donuts, plain donuts and glazed donuts, donuts with icing and even donut 'holes'.

Yep - I go with Pastry.

Is A Doughnut A Cake

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RE:

Is a doughnut a cake or not?

As simple as that: is a doughnut a type of cake? If not, what is it?

A doughnut (also spelled "donut") is a sweet, deep-fried piece of dough or batter. The two most common types are the torus-shaped ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere injected with jam, jelly, cream, custard, or other sweet filling. A small spherical piece of dough, originally made from the middle of a ring doughnut, may be cooked as a doughnut hole. Baked doughnuts are a variation that is baked in an oven instead of being deep fried.

Because yeast is used to rise the dough it goes into the category of bread . It is nothing more than fried bread dough . The flavors and fillings are just our constant affinity for sweet tastes , but its still fried bread dough .

I see people talking about egg and flour here so I need to add this . Eggs are added to egg bread and have nothing to do with the determination .

Flour this is funny . the variety of wheat and the milling process determin to which type of baking it is best suited not the color . You can use all purpose to make cakes or bread . there is also such thing as unlevened bread . This does not have yeast added but is still let to rise using the idea of sour dough without souring .

No Cake is Cake,

Doughnut is Doughnut or else it wont be called a doughnut it will be classified as cake. lol

Yes they are but they are even worse for you. Cake has white flour and sugars plus fats but the donuts are really loaded with those nasty fats.

It's close but not exactly a cake because its so soft and deep fried rather then baked

There are no eggs in the recipe, so I would say that they are bread, not cake.

It's technically bread, since it's bread dough that's fried, it has no sugar by itself, only what's over it and/or the filling.