For the love of doughnuts
Whether it be a cruller or apple fritter, Canadians eat the most doughnuts in the world. Although in pop culture, like in The Simpsons, the donut is often seen as portrayals of the American life, there are more doughnut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.
Here's what they had to say on the subject: “Doughnuts are deep-fried cakes with a long European history and roots in still earlier Middle Eastern cuisine. They were introduced to America by the Dutch in New Netherlands to America as oliekoecken (oil cakes or fried cakes).
According to Google users, glazed donuts reign supreme as the most popular donut.
Japan is known for its unique and delicious take on traditional treats, and donuts are no exception! Mister Donut, the iconic Japanese doughnut chain, has served up sweet and indulgent treats to locals and tourists for over 40 years.
Canada is the number one donut consumer in the world at around 1 billion annually, followed by Japan in a close second!
Krispy Kreme, Inc.
(previously Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.) is an American multinational doughnut company and coffeehouse chain. Krispy Kreme Inc. Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Captain Hanson Gregory (1832-1921) created the donut as a teen while trying to feed a crew of sailors — and changed American culinary culture forever.
In 2022, on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, the Lake James location set a Guinness World Record for the most freshly baked donuts sold in eight hours. When the day was over, Tom's Donuts sold 8,558 donuts.
Jelly Doughnut
These classic doughnuts are typically round without a hole in the middle, and generally leavened with yeast.
Yeast Doughnut
These doughnuts are also known as "raised doughnuts," as yeast is used as a leavener, which creates the air pockets when frying the batter that results in their signature light and airy texture. They're less likely to be crumbly, due to their spongy consistency, and can be glazed, frosted, or filled.
Doughnuts are very popular in the UK, there's a nostalgia around them, but there was nothing above a Krispy Kreme." Dum Dums doughnuts – whose "croissant doughnuts" sell for £20 for a box of nine – have a similar success story.
In Utica, New York, representatives from these two bakeries came together to make a giant 3,739 pounds 16ft wide donut. To this day, this is the largest donut ever made. It remains the world record in the Guinness Book of World Records.
This statistic shows the consumption of donuts / doughnuts in the United States in 2020. The data has been calculated by Statista based on the U.S. Census data and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS). According to this statistic, 201.02 million Americans consumed donuts / doughnuts in 2020.
Without a doubt, Randy's Donuts on Manchester Ave in Inglewood is the most famous of the giant donut stands in Los Angeles. It's also probably the most famous donut shop throughout the world.
The Doughnut emoji 🍩, also popularly called Donut emoji 🍩, was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. On most major platforms, the emoji resembles a brown doughnut with chocolate icing and multicolored sprinkles.
To fully cook the insides of the dough, the dough would have to stay in the oil for a longer time, which would lead to the outsides becoming burnt. Punching a hole in the middle of the dough, however, allows the insides and the outsides to cook evenly, creating a perfect donut.
Donut is an alternate spelling of doughnut. Some dictionaries point out that donut is rarely used outside the United States. All of them recognize doughnut as the main spelling, as do some of the more popular style guides. Doughnut might be the spelling you should use if you want to be sure you're not making a mistake.
As a testament to his vision, Krispy Kreme has earned its place as an American icon with many important company artefacts being featured in the collection of the Smithsonian's Institute's National Museum of American History.
Seven Krispy Kreme stores opened in Hong Kong, in Causeway Bay, Central, Mong Kok, Kwun Tong, and Hong Kong International Airport.
A batch of original glazed starts with Krispy Kreme doughnut mix, water and yeast, the same single-cell fungi used to make bread rise. The yeast is what makes the original glazed so light -- it puffs the dough up with air, so it's not dense like a cake doughnut. (More on this in the next section).
The world's most expensive donut is crowned by a gold-plated fleur de chocolat in the shape of a cattleya orchid - and the corresponding engagement ring.
An indulgent iced caramel donut with gooey caramel filling, topped with biscuit pieces and a dark cocoa drizzle.