It seems like the Krispy Kreme doughnut craze was just yesterday — but a new wave of novel, artisan doughnuts is tantalizing the nation. Just this month, Saveur magazine explored some of the decadent breakfast food’s wildest incarnations. And now the Boston area is getting into the game.

SOMERVILLE, Mass. — It might be lame, but it’s hard not to tease pastry chef Heather Schmidt about Fred, the most iconic doughnut maker of all time.

“Do you know how many times people have said that to me?” she asked with a smile, then mimicked her taunters: “Hey Heather, is it time to make the doughnuts yet?” Her amused but mildly exasperated answer is usually, “Like yeah, yeah… it’s time to make the doughnuts.”

Schmidt has been making and selling her version of the trending breakfast food for four weeks. The magic (as she puts it) happens in a shared commercial cooking space in Somerville known as Kitchen, Inc. The name of her operation — Union Square Donuts – is painted in black on the storefront’s glass window and simply stamped on the covers of its white bakery boxes. Thursday through Sunday long lines of curious doughnut seekers can be seen snaking down the street.

“There’s something very nostalgic about doughnuts,” Schmidt mused. “A lot of the time people come in and say, ‘It smells so good in here,’ and it just brings back a flurry of memories.”

Schmidt, who turned 38 this week, has her own childhood reveries.

“For me, it takes me right back to when I was 7,” she recalled. “Every Sunday morning, dad bringing home the honey dipped, the old fashioned and the chocolate frosted.”

Not Your Average Doughnut

But you won’t find those standard-issue flavors in Schmidt’s stable of recipes. In fact, her maple bacon doughnut is attaining a kind of mythic status among area food fans.

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Ummmm, Good Morning, TM !!

Good Morning W-Girl!!!

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Ummmm, Good Morning, TM !!

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I agree!

I really am a donut lover [should have been a cop!]. I'll go WAY out of my way for a good donut

Right now I'm trying to get up a delegation to check this place out!

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Sounds delicious.

I make doughnuts a couple times a year, they say... "just because I love you"

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I agree!

I really am a donut lover [should have been a cop!]. I'll go WAY out of my way for a good donut

Right now I'm trying to get up a delegation to check this place out!

Quote: Justme wrote in post #4

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Sounds delicious.

I make doughnuts a couple times a year, they say... "just because I love you"

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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #5

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I agree!

I really am a donut lover [should have been a cop!]. I'll go WAY out of my way for a good donut

Right now I'm trying to get up a delegation to check this place out!

Quote: Justme wrote in post #4

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Sounds delicious.

I make doughnuts a couple times a year, they say... "just because I love you"

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I would go with you but I have rule about not going East of the Mississippi.

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