Sign up for our newsletters! Only four people know the Krispy
Kreme recipe!  In 1933 Vernon Rudolph bought a doughnut recipe
from a French chef and set out to make a sweet dream come true.
He moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with just some old
equipment and $200. He used every penny he had to buy a little
store.  And though he died in 1973, Vernon's Krispy Kreme
doughnuts now are devoured all over the world.  Today, Krispy
Kreme shops produce more than 7.5 million doughnuts a day,
enough in one week to stretch from L.A. to New York. In just 22
seconds, Krispy Kreme can make enough doughnuts that, if stacked
on top of one another, they would be as tall as the Empire State
Building!  To this day, there are just four people who really
know the secret recipe that makes those doughnuts so good. The
recipe, which is locked up in a vault, is blended into a mystery
mix and shipped off to Krispy Kreme stores everywhere.  "Has
anybody ever eaten just one?" Oprah asks. "I had my first one [a
couple years ago] and