Raising Dough: Culinary Arts donut sale deemed a success
Donuts, like these from a previous Donut Day, will not be sold at CHS this year.
March 7, 2014
On Wednesday March 5, CHS students flocked to the Culinary Arts program room for a special treat.
CHS’s Culinary Arts class has been making donuts for Fasnacht Day for nine years.
Culinary Arts teacher Patricia Forney said, “[Donut day] started out small and it wasn’t this big till this year.”
Due to the overwhelming popularity of the donuts, the amount that was needed grew each year.
Each year, the Culinary Arts program has had to increase their amount of dry mix needed to make the donuts by 50 pounds to keep up with the growing demand. For the past three years, they have been using 250 pounds of dry mix.
To make such a large quantity of donuts to be ready and sold at 7 a.m., the Culinary Arts students and teachers must come in as early as 2 a.m. to start making the delicious treats.
Culinary Arts student Belinda Murillo said, “I had to wake up at 2 a.m. so I could make it in to school at 4 a.m.”
This year, Culinary Arts program was able to sell 3,362 donuts from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and they were also able to raise $1,663.38 for the Wendy Fraker Scholarship Fund.
The flavors of the donuts sold were glazed, sugared, pastry cream and cream filled, chocolate with sprinkles/peanut butter chips, cinnamon sugar, and donut holes.
Head Culinary Arts teacher Carey Ehly said, “[The best thing about donut day is] the students get to come in and be a part of the special day.”
Werner H. • Oct 30, 2014 at 10:29 am
I haven’t had any of the donuts but I am hoping to this year, I’ve heard that they are really good and lots of my friends got tons and tons of them and they all said they’re really good. I am hoping I can get some this year to try them for myself. I read in the article that the culinary people had to get up at 2 am and come into school at 4 am to start making all these donuts. I also read that the amount of dry mix added up to 250 pounds; I don’t even think that donut stores use that much a day. That’s a crazy amount of donuts for a high school.
Logan Redcay • Oct 1, 2014 at 8:48 am
The donut day is all ways the highlight of the year. The donuts are cheap, they taste great, and they raise money for a good program that helps students of CHS. Its fun to eat but at the same time donate to a good cause.
Christian Pavlovich • Mar 31, 2014 at 12:37 pm
The donuts are always amazing! I wish they would do more donut days, but I understand its a huge undertaking to come in as early as they do.
Jazmyn Campbell • Mar 31, 2014 at 8:08 am
I love Donut Day! It is a time that everybody looks forward to because of the special taste that they leave, even after they are eaten. It is a good time to raise money for the school while also, raising the conversation in the hallway waiting for next year. Sadly even though I won’t be here for Donut Day next year because I am graduating, I know the others that didn’t get any this year will enjoy them next year.
Emma Hotra-Schubert • Mar 10, 2014 at 9:38 am
I didn’t realize that the proceeds went to a scholarship fund, and now I’m even more pleased with Donut Day. Donut Day is the only day of the year that students actually try to get to school before 7:30.
Joseph Kucker • Mar 9, 2014 at 4:49 pm
This article was so amazing that it made me go out and eat 3 dozen donuts. Bravo.
Jennifer Schaeffer • Mar 8, 2014 at 11:02 am
I look forward to donuts day every year! I always enjoy picking out of all the amazing looking donuts! The smell that’s filling the room is probably my favorite part of being in there!