You can’t be bitter over doughnuts. But you can get stuffed.

And that’s why Carol D’Angio, our local finalist in the national “Create Dunkin’s Next doughnut,” who in the end lost to an Alabama man with a toffee topped creation, did not start National doughnut Day with a doughnut.

“I had my doughnut overload,” she conceded in a whisper, as she rehashed details of the contest’s bake-off. “It was a week ago, but it got to the point you simply couldn’t eat an entire doughnut.”

A dozen doughnuts in one sitting will do that to you.

Last month, we learned D’Angio a Palm Beach Gardens woman who works at a bank, had a lucky hunch that a doughnut filled with chocolate butter cream and topped with peanut butter icing would be tasty. The concept landed her in the top 12 of Dunkin’s national contest and a shot at $12,000.

Then it was time for the online vote. And her “A Nutter One” creation was the third most popular in that arena — behind entries titled sm’OREO and Chocolate Monkey.

Dunkin’ Donuts first-ever “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest will also be unveiled. One of the finalists is from North Palm Beach.

We won’t be eating the locally inspired “A Nutter One” doughnut for next year’s National Donut Day.

Palm Beach Gardens doughnut lover Carol D’Angio’s concoction with peanut butter and chocolate flavorings was the third most popular of 12 with the clicking public, but it was not the winning donut in this year’s “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest.

The winner’s doughnut didn’t even place in the top three in online voting. But the Alabama man’s “Toffee for your Coffee” won over judges in the bake off, according to Dunkin’s press folks.

But don’t let that keep you from indulging on this summer calendar landmark: National Doughnut Day.

If you’re suspecting your local doughnut shops of concocting this so-called commemorative day just to speed their goods out the door, you’re off the mark.

National Doughnut Day comes to us courtesy the Chicago Salvation Army, which came up with this ringer of a day more than 70 years ago.

Don’t fret, free doughnuts are still in the offing.

Today, Dunkin will give you a free doughnut when you buy a drink.

Not to be left out of celebrations, Hostess, the maker of the store bought versions, sent out these donut fun facts.

America’s favorite donut based on grocery store sales is a glazed donut, followed by chocolate, powdered sugar and plain donuts.

The folks of Louisville eat more donuts per capita than their counterparts in any other U.S. city – and they prefer chocolate donuts.

Who came up with this round cake with a hole in the middle? It’s “heavily debated,” but many give credit to Dutch settlers who are thought to have brought the techniques from Holland.

The whole hole-in-the-middle business may have been a way to solve the dilemma that appeared to plague early donut makers: having a gooey, undercooked middle when the sweets were plucked from the fryer.
Hostess would know. It makes more than 2 billion donuts a year – enough, their people report, to wrap around the Earth three times over.

All this donut talk make you thirsty?

Look around for one of the 25 3-foot-tall coffee cups that have been planted in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Okeechobee and Indian River counties.

Yes, a scavenger hunt involving 3-foot-tall cups.

They’re McCafe cups from McDonald’s.

Find one and redeem it at a participating McD’s for a year’s worth of McCafe – one per week.

Palm Beach Post food blogger Tory Malmer contributed to this story.