Madison, WIApple Cider Donuts

The Wisconsin State Journal says this Cross Plains orchard is known for pick your own apples, its own pressed cider, apple cider doughnuts and weekly fresh baked apple pies. Madison Magazine adds that the doughnuts are baked fresh every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and that the cider is blended from five or more apple varieties. The farm store also carries prepicked apples, and the paper puts hours at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Order the cider doughnuts on a weekend with a jug of the blended cider.

Eplegaarden works a Norwegian angle on the apple orchard in Fitchburg, and the Wisconsin State Journal lists apple cider brats and cider doughnuts alongside the pick your own apples and pumpkins. Madison Magazine records the same cider doughnuts in its fall farm guide. The paper puts the season at September through October, with hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Order the cider doughnuts and a brat, then pick a bag of apples.

Madison Magazine walks readers out of the corn maze at this Brooklyn orchard and into an apple cider doughnut, eaten while browsing handmade goat milk soap and soy candles. The same guide says the apple varieties on the stand change week to week and that fresh cider is pressed every Thursday. The orchard adds that the doughnuts come from a food trailer it put in during 2019 and are fried from its own cider, with 48 varieties growing behind them. Order a doughnut and a jug of the Thursday press.

Madison Magazine counts the fall trifecta at this Mount Horeb farm as an apple orchard, a pumpkin patch and a corn maze, and marks it on the guide's key for cider donuts and cider. The farm puts 28 apple varieties behind that, with cider pressed fresh each week and homemade apple cider doughnuts fried daily, plus caramel apples from September. The activity area runs a tractor track, pedal go karts, a mini maze and duck races. Order the doughnuts with a jug of the week's press.

The Wisconsin State Journal puts this Deerfield farm about twenty seven minutes from Madison, with an eight acre corn maze, more than fourteen acres of pumpkin patches, farm animals to meet and a haunted forest that opens after dark. Madison Magazine marks the farm for cider donuts and cider, and the farm sets them at the concession beside craft beer, pumpkin cake and caramel apples. The fall season opens September 19. Order the cider donuts and a cup of cider after the maze.