Krispy Kreme Tour

Layla and I drove out to Dothan this morning to join some other moms from meetup.com for a tour of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

It was SO much fun! First off we split into two groups and we (group 1) lined up to go into the back. Layla was playing shy.

But then the lady passed out hats and she was ready to go. They took us through a door into the back of the kitchen first.

This guy is the head doughnut maker. Here he is talking about how much out of each barrel he uses to make the dough. They don’t use flour. He said it is a special mix sent to the store by Krispy Kreme but they don’t tell him what is in it so he doesn’t run off and open his own doughnut shop 🙂

He puts it all in a machine and leaves it for like…17 minutes? Maybe. And then it comes out as this…

Then he puts the dough into this machine

Layla was the only one who went closer to look at it. There are attachments that hook onto the machine to squirt out the doughnut shape. They have the ring attachment as well as one that spits out the “holes” and the shells.

SO many. Yum.

Here we are finding out how they make the filled ones. This machine has little spikes that you stick the doughnut on and and squirts the filling inside.

Filling in action!

Now what good is a filled doughnut without powdered sugar? Here he shows us how they sift it on top. Same goes for the cinnamon topping.

Here is the ‘decorating section’

She takes a regular glazed doughnut and dips it in a tub of spinning chocolate

Then either dips it in sprinkles…or doesn’t.

Now Layla isn’t shy but just super excited and ready to eat one

Back to the other side you see all the little rings of dough lifting up…

Then they drop onto a little conveyor belt that takes them on a ride through some hot oil

That is when they come out all brown and pretty

and ready to roll under a shower of icing

And then back around to get boxed up or decorated

They also have coffee. I wish I would have remembered before I drank some at home before leaving.

A view from the back at the doughnuts for sale at the front.

Once our tour was done Layla got free glazed doughnut and I got us some drinks

She was covered in it. She also told me she wished we could live there!

Because I had coffee I already I opted for the orange creamsicle style smoothie. Yum.

It was a GREAT day! Thanks to Gina for setting it up and inviting the Rucker Moms group as well as the Dothan group! And of course I came home with a dozen doughnuts for us 🙂