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Custom Donuts in Utah: Birthday Boxes, Holiday Orders and Office Mornings
3 September 2026 · 6 min read
Custom donuts at The Donut Run are $3.00 each, or $36.00 a dozen, decorated by hand in our own kitchen. Call the shop you want to pick up from and give us a day's notice where you can. That is the whole answer — the rest of this is what we can actually make, and what to ask for.
What "custom" means here
It means somebody in our kitchen decorates them for your order, rather than you picking from whatever is in the case. Colours to match a party. Hearts in February. Pastels and Peeps at Easter. Green and gold in March. A team logo in the right colours for a Monday meeting.
We are a donut shop, not a bakery specialising in photo-printed icing, and it is worth being straight about that. What we do well is colour, icing, sprinkles, drizzle and shape. What we cannot do is edible photo prints or intricate sugar work. If your idea is closer to a decorated cake than a decorated donut, we will tell you on the phone rather than let you find out at pickup.
Holidays we already make boxes for
- Valentine's Day — heart-shaped donuts, iced and lettered. This is our busiest custom day of the year by some distance.
- Easter — pastel icing, spring colours, Peeps on top.
- St Patrick's Day — green icing, gold coins, shamrocks.
- Halloween and Christmas — seasonal colours and shapes.
- Birthdays, all year — the most common custom order we take, and the easiest to turn around.
On the big holidays, order early. Valentine's and Easter mornings sell through what we have made, and once a batch is gone there is no second batch that day.
How much notice we need
For a dozen, a day is usually plenty. For several dozen, or for a specific colour scheme, give us two or three days. For Valentine's Day, order the week before.
Here is the honest constraint: we bake and fry every morning starting long before the doors open at 5:00am, and custom decorating happens around that. The earlier we know, the more of your order gets made properly rather than squeezed in.
What it costs
- Custom donut — $3.00 each
- Custom donut by the dozen — $36.00 (twelve at $3.00; the dozen deal does not apply to custom)
- Specialty donuts from the case — $2.75 each, $27.50 the dozen
Custom donuts are the one thing buy ten, get two free does not cover. Ryan confirmed that on 26 September 2026, and we had it wrong on this page before then: a dozen custom donuts is twelve donuts at $3.00 each, which is the $36.00 above. The dozen deal does apply to specialty donuts from the case — $2.75 each, $27.50 the dozen — and to the rest of the board. We would rather correct ourselves here than have you arrive at the counter expecting a price we invented.
If your budget is tighter than a full custom box, a good middle option is a mixed box: half custom decorated for the photo, half specialty or glazed for the people who just want a donut — and the non-custom half does go to the dozen price.
It looks like an occasion and costs considerably less.
Office and team mornings
The most common working order we take is two or three dozen for a morning meeting, picked up on the way in. If that is you, two things worth knowing.
First, mix in kolaches. A box of donuts is a treat; a box that is half savoury kolaches is breakfast. Half and half is the order that leaves nobody hungry, and large kolaches are $49.50 a dozen.
Second, pick your shop by your route, not by which is nearest the office. We open at 5:00am at all three, which means you can collect before almost anything else in town is open.
Where to order
Call the shop directly — they know their own morning and what they can turn around today:
- Spanish Fork — 1306 E Center St · (801) 416-0800
- Ogden — 554 Washington Blvd · (385) 865-1029
- St. George — 922 E Brigham Rd · (435) 628-9290
You can also build the order on this site and choose your pickup shop and time, then confirm the decorating details with the shop by phone.