For those of you who have not been fortunate enough to enjoy a Hot and Now doughnut, i.e. one that is Hot and that you can enjoy Now, it is time to welcome you into the fold.  If you have a factory store, that is a store where doughnuts are made before your unbelieving eyes, you will see rings of yeast based dough magically transform into a delicious fluffy original doughnuts hot off the line…

They have been described as everything from a single sweet circle of heaven to delicious little pillows that melt in your mouth. To see larger images, simply click on the desired picture.

First you see row upon row of circles of dough on vertical conveyor belts. As they go up and down the varying tracks, they slowly begin to rise.

After the rising is complete they slide off the conveyor belt into hot oil where they begin to sizzle.

Then with a graceful flip, they cook on the other side, leaving a light ring as a tell tale sign around the perimeter, an expansion joint of sorts.

They then traverse the draining racks.

Where ultimately they hit the magical wall of liquid sugar coating each doughnut to perfection.

In case you need a close up of the shot above and the solid sheet of liquid sugar as it bathes each dougnut….

They hit the tracks again for the second and final drain.

And if the Hot and Now plain glazed donuts are not enough to satisfy your sweet tooth…

They make many other doughnuts including iced, filled, cake, and seasonal from anglotopia…

A rice krispy inspired Krispy Kreme donut hole cake from vanilla lemonade.com….

On a larger scale…

The Double Hundred Dozen pack of doughnuts, yes 2,400 doughnuts, won by 360 Resourcing Solutions in the UK from a marketing stunt on Twitter. Image from Adweek.

To celebrate Krispy Kreme’s 65th anniversary employee’s in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, employees used 18,000 doughnuts, over 1,000 pounds of icing, and over 300 pounds of candy to make a cake which stood 18 feet wide and 12 feet tall, setting a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest birthday cake. Image from Getty images.

Feature image from Charlotte Observer.