Smore’s Donut Recipe + Fun Donut Facts

Credit: Entenmann’s

Happy National Donut Day!!! What is your favorite flavor of donut? Try this delicious donut creation using Entenmann’s donuts and you might just have found your new favorite flavor. Pick up a few boxes and have a playdate in the park. Or drop a box of donuts off to dad and his colleagues at work! Whtever fun you decide to have remember that Entenmann’s has been around since 1974 and In the early ’50s, Frank Sinatra used to call the Bay Shore bakery to place weekly orders for Entenmann’s crumb coffee cake.

Also, Entenmann’s is hosting a sweepstakes for a chance to win free donuts for a year! For each entry, $1 will be donated to Entenmann’s’ charity partner Feeding America, up to $10,000. More information about the sweepstakes and donation program is available at www.entenmanns.com/nationaldonutday. “The Entenmann’s® 2017 National Donut Day and sweepstakes information has been provided by Entenmann’s® Bakery.” 

 Donut Facts

• Boston, MA has the most doughnut shops per person
• During WWI, they were fed to American soldiers
• They used to be called ‘olykoeks’
• Both ‘donut’ and ‘doughnut’ are acceptable spellings
• Over 10 billion donuts are made in the u.s. each year.
• The French used to call their donuts “Nun’s Farts”
• Ship’s captain Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented the ring doughnut, with a hole in the middle, on June 22, 1847
• Entenmann’s has made more than 780 million donuts. If you laid them end-to-end, you could wrap them around the earth 2 ½ times!
• More than 190 million pounds of apples have been used in Entenmann’s apple pies.
• The All Butter Loaf Cake was made in the original Entenmann’s bakery in Brooklyn in 1898.
• More than 168 million pounds of chocolate have been used for Entenmann’s “rich frosted chocolate dipped donuts,” enough to fill all of the Great Lakes.

 

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