The total solar eclipse is almost here and Krispy Kreme is ready to celebrate it with us.
The company announced early this week that it is introducing an all-new Total Solar Eclipse Doughnut, available for a limited time only.
Starting tomorrow, April 5 through Monday, April 8, the special doughnut will be available in-store for pick-up and delivery via the Krispy Kreme's app.
The doughnut is an Original Glazed Doughnut dipped in black chocolate icing, adorned with silver sprinkles, piped with a buttercream made with Oreo pieces, and features a whole Oreo cookie in the center, according to Krispy Kreme.
The doughnut will be available individually and as a specialty dozen featuring six Total Solar Eclipse doughnuts and six Original Glazed doughnuts.
“Eclipses are rare and so is our out-of-this-world Total Solar Eclipse Doughnut. Even if you can’t be in the path of totality you can get in the path of these treats, which you will eat in totality," said Dave Skena, global chief brand officer for Krispy Kreme, in the news release.
This isn't the first time the popular doughnut chain has introduced a new doughnut to celebrate a space-related event.
The company said it "eclipsed" its Original Glazed doughnut in chocolate glaze for the first time ever for the last total solar eclipse the U.S. experienced in 2017.
The company also served fresh Original Glazed doughnuts at the launch viewing site of NASA's Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969, according to the news release, and created the limited time Mars Doughnut to celebrate NASA's Perseverance Rover landing on the planet in 2021.
In 2022, Krispy Kreme celebrated NASA's Artemis I flight around the moon by creating the Artemis Moon Doughnut and acknowledged astronomers releasing the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole that resembled an Original Glazed Doughnut by giving the doughnut away for free, according to the company.
Source: MSN