23. Based on the above, the poskim discuss how one may make donuts from milchige dough without giving them some sort of indication when baking them.
24. Sweet foods. In practice, we rely on the acharonim who hold that these halochos only apply to bread or dough made into something that is actually eaten together with fleishigs or milchigs. Sweet foods, such as cookies, cakes, or donuts, are usually eaten as a dessert after the meal, not together with fleishigs. Therefore, these poskim hold, Chazal did not extend their decree to these foods and one may make them milchigs (שו"ת מהרי"ט ח"ב יו"ד סי' ח"י, חכ"א ).
25. Since no one puts actual pieces of meat on a donut, the only concern is that it will be eaten within six hours of eating fleishigs. Since this issue is more lenient, we are not worried about it when it comes to this issur, and one can make milchige donuts (יד יהודה סק"ו ).
26. The opposite case is a true concern: one may not bake fleishige cake, even if it is a sweet type of food, since it is common for people to eat cake with a milchige coffee.
27. Realistically speaking, people do get confused about which donuts are milchigs and which are parve. Therefore, the policy of the Eidah Chareidis’s Vaad Hakashrus is to require a sign in the store indicating which donuts are milchigs along with a specific mark: every milchige donut must have white chocolate stripes drizzled on it. Even donuts with a regular chocolate glaze must have the white stripes. All donuts without the white stripes are parve.
28. It should be pointed out that even the Eidah Chareidis must rely on the above reasons for why, strictly speaking, they do not need a special sign. As mentioned above, if a special sign was halachically required, making this sign on the donuts after the milchige dough was already baked would not help. They just do this as an extra precaution to prevent people from making mistakes.
