- Duck sits on the northern end of the Outer Banks.

On the southern end near Cape Hatteras is the town of Buxton, and an eatery that is beloved by locals and tourists alike.

Let's learn more about the Orange Blossom Bakery and Cafe.

- We have a beautiful island here that attracts everybody with its beaches and its fishing, but we also have some pretty amazing food and people here on the island.

The Orange Blossom is part of the core of that.

- I've been coming to Orange Blossom about 15 years, and it's well-visited.

- Well, it started out as the Orange Blossom Motel, and rumor was that they had orange trees on the property at the time, and that's why it was named that.

And then in the '70s, it was converted to the Orange Blossom Bakery.

We bought the Orange Blossom, my wife and I. It's kind of funny to watch people come in the door and with the display case and everything sitting around here, trays and trays of Apple Uglies, their eyes kind of get big and glaze over.

- The Apple Ugly is what they are known for.

- Well, the texture is light and fluffy, like a donut and pastry, but then you've got the baked apple in there, and then just all this, the crunchy sugar on the outside.

It's just, oh, so good.

- They're ugly, yeah.

You rip them apart and eat them like that.

It's great.

An Apple Ugly is kind of like an apple turnover, but huge, and you can only eat them by pulling them all apart, which of course makes them ugly.

- Oh, look at that.

- Oh, good.

- Oh, yeah.

- You'd be a hand bottle.

- Did you handle a Viking like a champ?

That's the Apple.

- It's great.

Apple Uglies are awesome.

- Yeah.

- So good.

- I can have this?

- Yes.

Look at all those apples.

It's stuffed like a conch shell.

- Like a conch shell.

- It's a little up to your ear.

It's in your ear, though.

(laughing) - Our apples, we have two different kinds of apples that we bring in.

We have sliced apples and diced apples that we bring in.

It's a great big, huge apple fritter that when we're done, we dip in donut glaze.

And that's our most famous product.

As the lore goes from Doris, they had leftover donut mix and dough.

And instead of throwing it away, one of their friends said, "Hey, why don't you take it and do this?

"Let's twist it all up, make it real ugly, "put the rest of the apples inside of it, "and let's fry it, and whoa, hold on a second.

"Let's dip it in donut glaze now that it's done."

And thus became the Apple Ugly.

And here we are, 50 some odd years later, still making Apple Uglies and making a lot more Apple Uglies than they used to make.

We have cheese danishes, we have turnovers, and we also have handmade pies that were started maybe 10 or 12 years ago.

They're kind of like an Apple Ugly, but in pie format.

And we have a variety of fillings for those.

- We usually just pick up Apple Uglies, but this time he actually picked up a sandwich and decided to dive all in with the Buxton this time.

♪ - I'm trying to do well for the people that started the bakery and the Apple Ugly.

Doris and Alan Oakham.

Alan passed away before I was around and bought the place, but Doris Oakham, bless her soul, she was alive for probably the first 15 years of my ownership here, and living in various retirement communities.

And once she was in a retirement community up here in Norfolk, I would take Apple Uglies up to her on a regular basis there on my way to Ocean City and stop in and see her in the retirement home.

And that was a treat for her.

You can see the sparkle in her eyes.

She was very excited to get bags of Apple Uglies and distribute them in the cafeteria there at her retirement community.

Unfortunately, she passed away a couple of years ago.

I took Apple Uglies to her funeral, which was only appropriate.

And I think we may have even slid some into the hearse with her when she was on her last trip there.

(laughs) So that was very special to me.

And I'm trying to carry on that tradition.

- Orange Blossom Bakery and Cafe is at 47206 North Carolina Highway 12 in Buxton.

And they're open daily from 6:30 AM to 11 AM.

They do have winter hours.

So to find out more, visit them on Facebook.