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Krispy Kreme Doughnut

by Katy Jackson 10 photos Rated 86% 542 votes when voting closed

What to pimp? We had to ask ourselves, what hasn’t really been done, and more to the point, what snack most deserves pimping? A Krispy Kreme doughnut, and not just your bog standard glazed one but chocolate glazed with hundreds and thousands!

The ingredients for the Kolossus (24 times the size of your average Krispy Kreme) are as follows:

400 g white sugar
1 packet of icing sugar
1 packet of royal icing sugar
15 g baking powder
10 g baking soda
5 g ground nutmeg
10 g ground cinnamon
750 g plain flour
475 ml buttermilk (we substituted this with half milk and half plain yogurt – it is a nightmare to get hold of buttermilk)
6 eggs
30 ml honey
225 g butter, melted
1 large bar of plain chocolate
Food colouring of various shades

Cost – £12.40 (yikes!)

Flour, boxes of sugar, golden syrup, Lurpak, a milk bottle and thirty eggs on the worktop

The batter was a lot gloopier than we all expected so no rolling out and shaping – we needed a mould fashioned out of an old cardboard box, sticky tape and tin foil (Blue Peter eat your heart out).

Beaten egg mixture poured into a well of flour in a frying pan, hands hovering above

Then we had to find something sturdy and ovenproof enough to create the hole in the centre…..we opted for a beer can which toppled over halfway through the cooking process and had to be replaced with a tower of ramekins.

A huge ring mould built from tinfoil on a foil-lined tray, batter already inside

We waited for about an hour, constantly checking for burning. Finally it was ready and we removed it from the oven and also its (very successful) mould. A small amount of reshaping was required as it was slightly too cylindrical for a doughnut, but with a deft hand and a bread knife this didn’t prove to challenging. What did prove slightly more difficult was the removal of the ramekin tower.

The baked ring risen inside its foil collar, a glass tumbler holding the centre hole open

It was now time to get on with preparing the various toppings. The thin white glaze common to pretty much all Krispy Kreme doughnuts was easy – very runny icing.

White sugar glaze running down the sides of the giant baked ring on a cooling rack

(yes – we know – it looks disgusting)

The chocolate glaze was easier, which is more than can be said for the hundreds and thousands, aka "Millions and Billions"

Chocolate glaze spread across the top of the glazed ring, cooling on a wire rack

We could have cheated and just bought the normal size ones but they wouldn’t have been in proportion and if you’re going to pimp a snack, proportion is paramount. We mixed royal icing with a variety of different shades of food colouring and rolled the icing into small “matchsticks” to place on top of the doughnut.

A man tipping hundreds and thousands from a plate onto the chocolate-topped giant doughnut

It took us about an hour to create all the millions and billions but I think you will agree that the finished product is very authentic.

The sprinkle-covered giant doughnut on a rack beside a normal Krispy Kreme and its bag

A man lifting the sprinkled doughnut to his mouth; it is wider than his shoulders

And the obligatory cross-section:

The giant doughnut cut in half showing pale sponge crumb, two normal doughnut halves in the gap

Nutritional Information:

Regular Krispy Kreme:
71g, 260 calories

Krispy Kreme Kolossus:
1.5kg (estimated, scales are too small to weigh accurately),
6,240 calories. Pimpalicious.

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