a donut · LABeignet
also: French-style beignet · New Orleans beignet
Square, no hole, and the sugar is not optional.
A deep-fried pastry of French origin, in New Orleans a square of dough fried until it puffs hollow and buried in confectioner's sugar. Beignet means bump.
The story Cited · wp-beignet
The pâte à choux method — butter, eggs, milk or water, sugar, flour, salt, cooked and beaten — is the style French immigrants brought to New Orleans in the 1700s. Beignets are also made from yeast-leavened batters and from rice flour, and the word covers all of them. In Canadian French, beigne or beignet simply means doughnut. In the former French colonies of West Africa a beignet is a ball of fried dough, sometimes millet flour in Senegal.
The New Orleans beignet arrives at a table three to an order with a snowbank of powdered sugar and coffee cut with chicory beside it.
How it is done Cited · wp-beignet
Roll the dough thin, cut squares, fry hot so they inflate and stay hollow, then sugar them heavily while they steam.
Today Inference
A donut shop in Louisiana may sell beignets, donuts and king cake off the same counter without anyone treating that as a mixed menu.
The particulars
| dough | choux |
|---|---|
| finish | powdered |
| state | LA |
| region | Louisiana |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
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