Friday marks National Doughnut Day! Celebrated on the first Friday of June each year, National Doughnut Day originated in 1938 to honor The Salvation Army’s ‘doughnut girls,’ who served the treats to American soldiers during World War 1.
In celebration of the occasion, Guinness World Records, the global authority on record-breaking achievements, shares our pick of the tasty treat’s sweetest records.
Tallest stack of doughnuts
The tallest stack of doughnuts measured 110.5 cm (43.5 in) and was built by members of 20th Century Fox and Capital Radio to celebrate the premier of The Simpsons Movie (USA, 2007), at the offices of Capital Radio in Leicester Square, London, UK on 25 July 2007. A team of eight built the stack in a pyramidal structure using 1,764 ring doughnuts.
Largest box of doughnuts
The largest box of doughnuts is a Krispy Kreme box weighing 135 kg (297 lb 10 oz) and was produced by The Kuwait Food Co. Americana (Kuwait), in Kuwait, Kuwait, on 30 May 2009.
Longest line of doughnuts
The longest line of doughnuts (Berliner) is 561.4 m (1841 ft 10 in) was achieved by Friedrichstadt-Palast (Germany), in Berlin, Germany, on 27 April 2014. The record attempt took place to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the new building of Friedrichstadt-Palast, Europe’s Show Palace.
Largest doughnut mosaic
The largest doughnut mosaic was created with 7,040 doughnuts at the Lviv Pampykh Festival in Lviv, Ukraine, on 07 Jan 2012. The attempt took place on Ukrainian Christmas day (7 January) as part of their Pampukh Festival. After the attempt all doughnuts were distributed to the public who had gathered on Market Square, the venue where the mosaic was created.
Most jam doughnuts eaten in one minute
The most jam doughnuts eaten in one minute, without licking the lips is 3 and was achieved by Patrick Bertoletti (USA) at the Sierra Studios in East Dundee, Illinois, USA, on 14 January 2012.
Patrick Bertoletti also holds multiple food-related records like Most peanut butter and jelly sandwiches eaten in one minute.
Most jam doughnuts eaten in three minutes
The most sugared jam doughnuts eaten in three minutes, without licking the lips is 6 and is held by Lup Fun Yau who equalled the record at The Sun Offices, London, UK on the 2 May 2007.
Sharing the record title, the most sugared jam doughnuts eaten in 3 minutes, without licking the lips is 6 and is held by Steve McHugh (UK) who attempted this at the offices of Guinness World Records, London on 28 June 2002.
Most powdered doughnuts eaten in three minutes
The most powdered doughnuts eaten in three minutes is six and was achieved by Shamus Petherick (Australia) at Donuts Coffee N More in Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia, on 12 December 2010. The coffee shop hosted multiple attempts for this record on the day, with Shamus being the only one to break it.
Fastest time to eat a jam doughnut with no hands
The fastest time to eat a jam doughnut with no hands and without licking the lips is 11.41 seconds, and was achieved by Philip Joseph Santoro (USA), in San Francisco, California, USA, on 17 April 2014.
