Cops and doughnuts go together like peas and carrots, and at a historical bakery in Clare, the local police officers decided to take their relationship with these sweet treats up another notch. At Cops & Doughnuts, which is owned by nine members of the Clare police force, you can enjoy all sorts of delicious fried and baked treats.
“We’re real cops, and we’ve got real doughnuts,” said Greg Rynearson, one of the nine owners.
“Our best-selling doughnut is actually a long john,” he said. “It has custard filling in it with chocolate frosting, that’s our number one.”
Cops & Doughnut’s long john is our pick for Sweet Treat of the Week, a series highlighting chefs and products from around Michigan who are using Pioneer Sugar in their creations.
The original location of Cops & Doughnuts is full of character, and might even be considered a Michigan bucket list spot. They were on our list for Michigan’s Best Doughnut back in 2014, and MLive’s John Gonzalez recommended the the maple bacon “Baconator” long john, with two strips of quality bacon, as the must-try doughnut.
Check out our interview with Rynearson below, where we talk about how this historic bakery got its name, which doughnut is the most popular, and learn the unique way that they frost the doughnuts.
The original Clare location of Cops & Doughnuts is located in the historic Clare City Bakery, a community landmark that had been around since 1896. The bakery fell on hard times, and was about to be forced to close, when the police stepped in. In 2009, the entire police force in Clare decided to come to the bakery’s rescue, and the nine cops bought the bakery together, and have been running it ever since. There are now four ’precinct’ locations of Cops & Doughnuts around Michigan, a fun little police reference that here means a stand-alone store. In addition to those, they also operate four ’substations,’ which are doughnut shops located inside another business.
Cops & Doughnuts makes all the doughnuts and pastries for the four locations at the bakery in Clare. The volume of product that they produce is pretty impressive. “We go through about 6,000 pounds of Pioneer Sugar each week in the summer time,” Rynearson said. “We go through a lot of it.”
Rynearson explained that they make all of their frostings for their doughnuts from scratch, and that they literally frost their doughnuts by hand, using gloved hands to spread the sweet topping onto each doughnut. “Best way to get it on,” Rynearson said. Those long johns get a nice thick coating of the homemade chocolate frosting.
The owners of Cops & Doughnuts, from left to right: Al White “Bubba” Dave Saad “Grasshopper” John Pedjac “Beaver” Rich Ward “Junior” Dwayne Miedzianowski “Midge” Brian Gregory “Dogman” Greg Kolhoff “Bulldog” Greg Rynearson “Ryno” Jeremy McGraw “Squirt”Courtesy Photo, used with permission.
The Long Johns at Cops & Doughnuts are their most popular variety. They come filled and frosted in multiple ways.Courtesy Photo, used with permission.
Cops & Doughnuts
Clare City Bakery
521 N McEwan St
Clare, MI 48617
(989) 386-2241
Sutherland Precinct
710 E Midland St
Bay City, MI 48706
(989) 892-3932
Central Precinct
1327 S Mission
Mount Pleasant, MI 48858
(989) 546-7666
Jay’s Precinct
1151 S Otsego Ave
Gaylord, MI 49735
(989) 968-4488
Substations
Ace Hardware & Sports, Midland
Wheeler’s Restaurant, Standish
Steve’s Country Meats, Harrison
Marion Village Market, Marion
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