It’s easy to miss Raulin’s Bakery in a Beltsville strip mall at 10476 Baltimore Ave., but once you’ve found it, you’re likely to become a regular.
Beloved locally for its freshly made cake doughnuts and other pastries, Raulin’s has been around in one form or another since the 1930s, when it started in a strip mall in northeast D.C. In the 1940s, it moved to Hyattsville, and in 1964, to Beltsville.
The Raulin family sold the bakery in 2004, but new owner and pastry chef John Kim has kept the original name and added some of his own recipes.
Kim, a native of South Korea who is now an American citizen, told the Hyattsville Wire that his specialty doughnuts include double chocolate on Tuesdays and Fridays, apple cake doughnuts on Wednesdays and Saturdays and blueberry doughnuts on Thursdays.
He said his group customers have dropped off entirely during the pandemic, while individual sales are down from the usual.
Located in the Chestnut Hills Shopping Center, Raulin’s Bakery is still a local favorite among area residents who are fans of its cake doughnuts, which include options such as maple nut, raspberry, peanut butter, toasted coconut, nut crunch, apple and lemon.
But the bakery also sells everything from pies and cakes, to chocolate eclairs, butter croissants, apple fritters, and raspberry puffs, to scones, bagels and a wide-assortment of bread including New York rye, country milk, pumpernickel and California sourdough. They also offer fresh roasted Mayorga organic coffee.
The bakery is open Mondays 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., and closed on Sundays.
A box of a dozen Raulin’s donuts costs $9.49 which is a few dollars cheaper than what you would pay at chains like Dunkin’.
If you can’t make it to the bakery, they offer local delivery through Grubhub.
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