The decision I made wasn’t about something trivial like what to eat for Breakfast – oh no! I decided to drive a 200 mile round trip for some sugar coated rings of heaven.

Yes, Krispy Kreme. For those who have never heard of Krispy Kreme, it is an American and Canadian doughnut chain which has been going for over 70 years. I personally got hooked on the doughnuts when I went to Canada and visited one of the outlets.

Since then, I have been trying to figure out the logistics of sending doughnuts via the postal service with them remaining edible at the end of it.

That was until I discovered that Krispy Kreme had branched out into the UK. TOTAL WIN! Well, actually not quite. Upon checking the UK website, I discovered that though they were in the UK and growing, the majority of outlets were in London and the nearest one to me was Birmingham…

A nice 2 hour drive and several litres of V-Power later, I arrived at the Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham city centre (which incidentally is actually quite a funky place to visit). I entered the lower floor of Selfridges where the Krispy Kreme was located and could smell the doughnuts already. Now, this particular outlet was nowhere near as big as the ones I’d been to over in Canada, but still… *drools*

You can actually see the doughnuts being made and when the machine is on, all customers waiting in the queue get a free freshly baked, hot glazed doughnut. Mmmm…

Moving along the conveyor belt being cooked

Coated by a river of thick gooey sugar

And the final product!

Yes, yes I did buy two dozen.