Doughnut Heaven

It’s the sizzle that keeps ’em coming back for more. Hazel Coale has been coming to Britts Donuts since 1947. “My first experience with Britt Donuts, I lived up the street, and I came down on the beach, to lay out on the beach for a while. I bought a dozen Britt’s Donuts to bring home with me, and on the ride home I ate ten.”

There’s something in these doughnuts, and after nearly seventy years in business, and millions of carolina beach fans, Britts Donuts is now a national name. MSN City Guide ranked these little pieces of heaven as the second best doughnut in the country. “They are always just so fresh, and light and fluffy and just cooked to perfection.”

That’s because Alex Barbee makes them fresh every couple seconds. So when it lands in your hand, its ready to melt in your mouth! He says, “It’s that great feeling, you know, that feeling like you’ve accomplished something, and you know people are going to like it, so when they bring it out of the shop they will say ‘Alex Barbee made this doughnut, and it was awesome.'”

The process of making them is mouth watering in and of itself, and the best part of all has to be the sticky, gooey icing globbed on top. Hazel Coale says, “The reason I continue to eat them, I think most of the calories have been taken out.”

Robert Nivens has owned the shop for almost thirty five years, and he says they still make the doughnuts the same way they did back in 1939. “I think it’s because we really take pride in it, and when you have a product that you take pride in, and people brag on, it really makes you try harder.”

Usually in the mornings, you can’t get near the shop, there are lines all up and down the boardwalk. Making britt’s doughnuts the guilty pleasure of Pleasure Island.