I tried every doughnut I could find at Krispy Kreme and ranked them from worst to best

A limited-time seasonal variety, the maple-buttercream doughnut is a glazed yeast doughnut with a swirl of maple frosting on top.

None of the other doughnuts I tried had this type of frosting — most of the rest were icings lacquered to the doughnut, where this was piped on, like on a cupcake.

It had the color and flavor of maple candy, but somehow, it seemed even more sweet. It was way too sugary for my liking, even by doughnut standards.

The oatmeal-Kreme-pie flavor was another seasonal variety. It was by far the most heavily dressed doughnut in the bunch. To be honest, it looked like it came from a fancy bakery.

This cream-filled doughnut was topped with vanilla frosting, streusel, more cream, and a little oatmeal cookie. If you think that sounds like too much, you’re absolutely right. Like the maple buttercream, this doughnut was cloyingly sweet.

The frosting on the strawberry-iced doughnut had a candy-like artificial flavor that tasted almost medicinal to me. It even turned off my 4-year-old, who loves pink things and sprinkles.

It’s only ranked this high on my list because my 7-year-old called it his favorite doughnut of the bunch.

When I pulled the chocolate-iced doughnut out of the box, it looked fairly boring. In reality, it’s basically the chain’s glazed doughnut with a thin layer of chocolate icing on top.

However, I didn’t love Krispy Kreme’s chocolate icing. The flavor was on the sweet side, and there wasn’t much depth to it.

This doughnut was exactly the same as the chocolate-iced version but with rainbow sprinkles on top. In my kids’ eyes, this made it distinctly better than the regular chocolate-iced doughnut.

In my eyes, however, there weren’t enough sprinkles to make much difference in the flavor or texture. I also found they were on the mushy side.

The pumpkin-spice cake doughnut was the only flavor I tried with a cake base, and its denser texture made for a nice change of pace.

I also liked that Krispy Kreme didn’t go overboard with the pumpkin-spice flavoring, which can be off-putting when it’s too strong.

This limited-time flavor reminded me of an apple-cider doughnut with hints of cinnamon and nutmeg. However, it wasn’t as hearty or as crumbly as I’d like a cake doughnut to be.

I realized I’d never tried Krispy Kreme’s take on the Boston-cream doughnut before — and it wasn’t bad.

The custard filling was creamy, on the thin side, and only lightly sweet. In terms of Boston-cream doughnuts, this one was on the airier side. But again, I was unimpressed by the chocolate icing.

The cream in this doughnut reminded me of Twinkie filling — fluffy and very sweet. I liked that it kept the doughnut extra moist and sweet throughout.

I’d never tried the glazed lemon-filled doughnut before. When I’m in the mood for a fruit-filled option, I typically reach for a raspberry-filled jelly doughnut.

However, when I took a bite, I was surprised by how much I liked the lemon filling. It was closer in consistency to custard than to jelly, and it had a nice citrusy zing to it.

I would order this again, even though I don’t normally love lemony desserts.

My 4-year-old called the cake-batter doughnut her favorite of the ones she tried.

It was topped with cheerful yellow icing and rainbow dot sprinkles. I thought the cake-batter cream filling tasted a bit more buttery than traditional cream.

It was a bit on the sweet side for my tastes, but I’d buy it again and give it to the kids to split.

The seasonal salted-caramel-cheesecake flavor is essentially a glazed doughnut topped with swirls of cream-cheese buttercream and dulce-de-leche flavoring.

According to the photos I’d seen of this dessert, it’s supposed to be finished with salted-caramel crumbs. However, the one I got had very little salted caramel, and what was there tasted only of salt.

The cream-cheese buttercream mostly tasted like the regular cream, but the dulce-de-leche flavor was delicious. It was rich, buttery, and salty, which went really nicely with the sweetness of the glaze.

My 7-year-old rejected it as “too salty to be dessert,” but I’ll definitely look out for this variety again.

The glazed raspberry-filled doughnut is one of my go-to Krispy Kreme orders, and it didn’t disappoint.

I knew what to expect: a delicious mess of goopy, tangy raspberry filling and the chain’s familiar glaze.

Some of the appeal of this doughnut may be nostalgia for me, but there’s a reason it’s a classic.

The spiced-apple-filled doughnut was the only one I tried that had cinnamon sugar instead of glaze on the outside.

Inside was an apple filling with a nice hint of warm spices. To me, it tasted like an elevated version of a McDonald’s apple pie.

Unfortunately, these are only available through the beginning of October — or else I’d plan on having a few more.

During my taste test, I learned you really can’t go wrong with Krispy Kreme’s classics.

In my experience, the original glazed doughnuts always taste a bit fresher than the rest of Krispy Kreme’s varieties. They’re also perfect in their simplicity: Just a sweet glaze on a soft, squishy, yeasty doughnut.

I wasn’t surprised that I loved the original glazed doughnut so much — I’ve had more than a few in the past. But I was surprised to learn that none of the other flavors could top it. Even the kids loved it despite its lack of sprinkles.