Mmm, doughnuts.

Coffee's lovable partner of crime and the paramour of cops everywhere. Irresistible and often best served glazed or frosted, doughnuts are just as fun to create as they are to eat.

In New York City-- as with most foods-- the city's finest doughnut makers approach their craft with a great deal of creativity, originality, and fun to make some out of this world doughnuts that are unique to NYC.

Here are 9 of those delightfully delicious doughnut shops for you to check out when you're looking for a whole (see what we did there?) lot of awesome.

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1. Dough (448 Lafayette Street - Brooklyn)

Dough may have a simple name, but these doughnuts are anything but. Thick doughnuts with perfect consistency equals a treat that will kick greasy gas station alternatives to the curb.

Dough also has a crazy variety with things you'd never imagine you'd see on a donut.

The lemon poppyseed, glazed with fresh lemon juice, is a big hit, as is the dulce de leche with a caramel glaze and crunchy slivered almonds.

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2. Doughnut Plant (various NYC locations)

Doughnut Plant has a whopping four NYC locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, and their doughnuts can even be found in Shake Shacks across the city and coffee chains like Joe Coffee.

They make three kinds of doughnuts: yeast, cake, and filled.

Yeast doughnuts are light and airy, while cake donuts are more fluffy as you'd imagine a cake would be. Their tres leches cake doughnut is filled with icing and yet still fried completely to perfection.

Don't miss out on this one, doughnut lovers.

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3. Dun-Well Donuts (222 Montrose Avenue - Brooklyn)

Dun-Well Donuts isn't just another artisanal Brooklyn doughnut shop. It houses over 200 different kinds of doughnuts. That's right, 200. What have you done with your life?

Of course, if you want to try all 200, you'll have to keep coming back and trying their doughnuts on a daily basis.

Topped with every possible combination of glazes, frostings, and nuts, these doughnuts, like the PB&J, are a big hit in the big city.

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4. Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop (727 Manhattan Avenue - Brooklyn)

Peter Pan has been a Greenpoint staple since the 1950s, and if you stop in for a visit, you'll still get that old school feel and charm from sitting at the counter drinking shakes or egg creams with your doughnut.

If you're looking for a good old fashioned doughnut with a fun pop of flavor, this is your place.

Their cream filled doughnuts are filled thick to the brim with cream. Other favorites include the red velvet and the blueberry buttermilk.

Also, they have doughnut ice cream sandwiches, which is just a whole new level of dessert awesomeness.

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5. Orwasher's (308 East 78th Street)

This Jewish bakery is well known for its breads and pastries like strudel, but for this list's sake, it's the doughnuts that count.

More specifically what's inside the doughnuts that count. Orwasher's fries small batches of doughnuts that are filled to order with delightful farm fresh jellies that come from New York State's Hudson Valley.

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6. Carpe Donut (various NYC locations)

Just when you thought NYC had run out of options for food trucks, boom: a doughnut truck appears. You can find Carpe Donut across Brooklyn and Manhattan when the truck makes its daily runs, so keep on the lookout.

The doughnuts themselves are made from locally sourced, fresh ingredients, which should make you feel good about eating a doughnut in the first place.

Their token item is their apple cider doughnut. Three of this warm, cinnamon-sugary treats are $6, so grab them on your lunch break and make the rest of your work day sweet.

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7. Donut Pub (203 West 14th Street)

Donut Pub is what I'd imagine a cross between a doughnut shop and a diner would be.

Serving up doughnut goodness since 1964, this spot is open 24/7, just in case you're looking to end a night out or kick the morning off after one with a delicious doughnut.

These treats are no-frills, but not surprisingly just as delicious as their more fancy counterparts. Get them filled with creme or jelly, or get them as glazed rings. Bottom line, these doughnuts will not disappoint.

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8. Dough Loco (24 East 97th Street)

If you ever get tired of the usual suspects in the doughnut game, know that Dough Loco's original renditions of a traditional doughnut will not bore you.

The flavors that are included in these doughnuts are so unique and unexpected that you'll fall in love with them thinking, how did they do that?!

Think you've seen it all when it comes to doughnuts? Enter the world of maple miso and raspberry Sriracha doughnuts.

Your taste buds will be all the better for it, promise.

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9. Holey Cream (796 9th Avenue)

Donut ice cream sandwiches-- completely customizable. Need we say anymore?

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