Mel-O-Cream Donuts

Springfield strikes me as a donut kind of town and Mel-​O-​Cream is the best local spot to get your fix. They’ve got locations all over the city and their donuts are consistently excellent, which is helpful when the wind picks up and you need some relief in the wintertime. Warm coffee and generously proportioned donuts are sure-​fire antidotes to brutal February mornings. My favorite in their line-​up is the Oreo cream donut: a vanilla glazed and cream filled donut with Oreo crumbs on top.

Walked in at 9:30, so selection was pretty thin. I’ll know better for next time. Blueberry fritter and pudding-​filled with powdered sugar we’re great. Staff very friendly.

Nothing to say other than these are the best donuts in the world. Get there early, they sell out of the classics fast.

Cream donuts with the chocolate icing are amazing. The chocolate wasn’t a super sugary gritty coating, but a rich more like dark chocolate. Great history, decent selection when i went. Looks old, simple inside, nothing fancy, but very good.

Great little place but only gets three stars because when we got there at 9:30 they had few selections and very few donuts left.

Mel-​O-​Cream has essentially bullied all competition out of town due to nothing more than the misguided blind faith of its loyal Springfield customers. First off, NO LOCATIONS make the doughnuts that they sell. ALL Mel-​O-​Cream doughnuts are made the day before at the main factory and trucked in for sale.
Alternately, if you go to a grocery store in town, you get Mel-​O-​Cream Prefried doughnuts, out of the freezer and into the oven to bake ‘fresh’ every day. None of the sales locations are company owned. The result is that Franchise owners are forced to sell an inferior product. It is easy to confirm all of this by the fact that none of the Mel-​O-​Cream retail locations have fryers, and the corporate Mel-​O-​Cream website proudly describes the production process.

Really liked their doughnuts which we tried while visiting Springfield — the chocolate icing was my favorite. The long johns were very good too. The dough part was perfect.
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Let’s cut to the chase, I love this place. I grew up in Springfield and grew up eating Mel-​O-​Cream donuts. I absolutely love their vanilla and caramel long johns. Those are my favorites. You cannot go wrong here. Maybe part of my love for Mel-​O-​Cream is the nostalgia of my youth but my husband did not grow up in Springfield and these are his favorites as well.

If you are in Springfield and need donuts, well, this is THE place. They have history behind them, have been around since the 30’s, enough said. If a place can stay in business for 5 years, it is usually pretty good. This place has been here for generations now.
Wasn’t wild about the coffee I had, it was lacking flavor. But the donuts were good. The staff was super nice, and despite a small crowd, the line moved fast.

This review is for my dad. Mel-​O-​Cream was founded in 1932, in Springfield, Illinois. Which is exactly where my dad was born in 1935. So, you can say he’s been going there for his whole life! He loves their donuts, and he keeps going back!

Born and raised in Springfield Illinois. Last 6 years I have lived in NYC the city that never sleeps. All I can say is I’m flying home for the 4^th of July tomorrow and all I can think of is Mel-​O-​Cream white cinnamons. It is true that if you don’t get up early you will never get your favorite doughnut, which makes little sense not to make more. Please don’t read this review and get up early to get mine since I haven’t had one in 6 years!

Tasty doughnut business here. I’m a fan of their chocolate-​frosted cake doughnuts — goof texture and the frosting is nice and chocolatey. Also, the staff at this location are absolutely hilarious and they were kind enough to sing Happy Birthday to a little girl who was turning 6!

Okay, I’m sorry to write the bad review for this place. I came here due to the great reviews it got on Unilocal and I came here super excited about trying this place out — wow any doughnut shop that can top krisy kreme is pretty amazing in my book.
Boy was I in for an immense disappointment.
Okay, i loved the motif they had going and i really loved the Mel-​o-​cream t-​shirts the staff was wearing. i woulda bought one if i saw that they had em on sale.
Anyways…When I walked in the staff was pretty surly. i thought this was surprising considering that Springfielders are usually a really nice and friendly bunch. So I decided to order my doughnuts: I went for an original mel-​o-​cream. I avoided the cake doughnuts even those are my absolute fave due to another Unilocalers review, and I got a sugar twist. oh yeah! and a milk to wash the goodness down.
I eagerly got back to my ride, ripped open the bag and chomped into the mel-o-cream…and ugh. It was awful. It was old and the icing was all soggy and wet. So i finished that off since i didnt want to throw it out and moved onto my sugar twist. it was a tough doughnut that was dry with little flavor besides its dusting of sugar.
I’ve honestly had better doughnuts anywhere else — even those krisy kremes that are delivered to the store and start getting stale were better than these beauties I bought today. *sigh*

Mel-​O-​Cream has pretty much kept Krispy Kream and all other competitors out of town. This is not just the blind faith of tradition that gets Saputo’s its high ratings. Mel-​O-​Cream deserves 6 or 7 stars.
Honestly, I grew up on Mel-​O-​Cream. There is a location 2 blocks from my house and I pass it whenever I go somewhere. I have been spoiled. I cannot consume any other donut because it simply would not measure up.
They have tons of variety. There are dozens of donuts to choose from. Despite the abundant choices, you can’t go wrong with the humble glazed donut. It is light as it needs to be, but unlike Krispy Kream, you actually feel like you are something after two or three Mel-​O-​Cream donuts. I prefer the Chocolate Old Fashion.
To get an idea of how good this place is here’s a little anecdote: My godfather grew up in Springfield. He moved to Texas. Every time he comes home, he’ll get several dozen donuts of all varieties to share with his coworkers. Needless to say, his Mel-​O-​Cream supply rarely lasts more than a few minutes.

On our way to the Lincoln Tomb, this place looked great. I am always in search of the best donuts. This place is good. Cake donuts, I didn’t dig. I like mine overly moist. They were too dry for me. The glazed was better. But what really saved it was the French Cruller. Light, airy goodness. Really good with the chocolate glaze. There’s a line outside this place, and the drive thru line was crazy. My mom really loved her Bismark with pastry cream.

MMMMMM Doughnuts. Best doughnuts in the world. plain glazed and a glass of milk. You have to try this place. The one on ash is my personal favorite and the same people have been working there since I was born

I heart Mel-​O-​Cream Donuts! Move over Krispy Kreme. You ain’t got nutin’ on these donuts. These donuts really are better than the rest. They don’t leave that «lard-​layer» of grease on the roof of your mouth like other donuts do. They come in many styles, shapes and centers/​toppings. My ultimate favorite are the french donuts-yummy!Whenever I am back home I get some to eat now and always a couple dozen to go.
If you are ever in Springfield and see Mel-​O-​Cream STOP THE CAR-​you won’t be sorry.