Not to be confused with National Cream Puff day (2 January) or National Whipped Cream Day (5 January). Regular doughnuts have an entire National Doughnut Weekend (the first weekend in June). And of course all of September is National Potato Month.

Who makes all this nonsense up? And why do they bother?

There are no doughnuts of any variety in our collection, but here is something equally sweet, creamy and colourful of our own...