Dive into donuts… and give your customers a sweet treat

Donuts are big news and so easy to add to any takeaway or fast food outlet menu.

They’re a great way to upsell on a drink, a delicious sweet addition to round off a meal and can even be used as a novel way to sandwich savoury items like chicken burgers.

The KaterBake bakery range at Central Foods has been expanded recently with five new donuts for the food service sector, including a gluten-free version to ensure that customers with coeliac disease don’t miss out on these popular favourites.

The frozen food distributor has launched sugared donuts, mini sugared donuts, chocolate iced donuts, mini chocolate iced donuts, and the gluten-free midi sugared donut under the KaterBake range.

The ring-shaped, cake-style donuts are suitable for vegetarians and simply need thawing before serving.

Just pop them in a bag and they’re good to go! Or consider more innovative ways to serve, such as decorating milkshakes, freak shakes and ice cream or using them as carriers for burgers.

Gordon Lauder, MD of Central Foods, said: “Doughnuts and their American-style donut counterparts have been one of the greatest success stories of recent times, with huge innovation in the sector.

“We’re delighted to be expanding our popular KaterBake bakery range with the addition of these five new ring donuts for our food service customers. The inclusion of a gluten-free ring donut means that coeliac customers don’t miss out on these popular sweet treats.

“Our new cake-style donuts have a slightly denser texture, meaning they provide a more filling treat. But donuts are more than just a sweet treat; fast food operators can use them to decorate a freak or milkshake, an ice cream sundae, or even to ‘sandwich’ savoury items, such as chicken burgers, to make unusual flavour mash-ups that can go viral on social media! The only limit with donuts is the imagination!

“Frozen donuts are ideal as fast food operators can defrost them as needed, ensuring there is always a ‘fresh’ supply to hand and reducing wastage.”

The KaterBake range is Central Foods’ own-brand of bakery products for the food service sector and includes speciality bread and morning goods such as flatbreads, crumpets, waffles, bao buns and yum yums.

Central Foods was founded in 1996 and is one of the UK’s leading food service frozen food distributors. The company is proud to be a catering partner across the whole food service sector, including the fast food sector.

Based in Collingtree, near Northampton, it currently sells to over 180 independent wholesalers, as well as larger national and regional wholesalers.

For more information, visit www.centralfoods.co.uk