Milly’s Basket

The first dedicated donut shop in Stanton’s Rodeo 39 Public Market was Dot & Dough, the second location of a Monterey Park shop that sold Hawaiian mochi donuts, malasadas, and Simpsons-inspired “Homer” donuts with colorful sprinkles. A semi-new shop called Milly’s Basket replaced it in September 2024, preserving some of the donuts and introducing trendier replacements for others, but between intermittent staffing and inconsistent freshness, we can’t recommend it.

Milly’s Basket has offered everything from wheel-style croissants with ube filling, Dossant croissant-donuts, and maple bars to Dubai chocolate donuts, Korean-style “French cream” donuts, and slices of what look like store-bought cake – triple chocolate, matcha cheesecake, and others. On our first visit, we were so surprised by the tiny shop’s wide variation in donut and cake styles that we felt compelled to ask whether everything was made in-house, and although we were dubious, the official answer was “yes.”

As of June 2025, the collection has been cut back: The bars, croissants, and doissants are gone, though there are still Dubai chocolate and French cream versions, as well as creme brulee and S’mores donuts, plus a handful of so-so-looking, top-glazed mochi donut flavors. Multiple cake slices, all looking store-bought, were also individually wrapped in a display case above Korean fruit milks, Coke cans, and Starbucks bottled coffees.