Fun Facts

  1. It would take 14,080 Tastykake individual pies laid end to end to form a mile.
  2. If one chicken were to lay all of the eggs used for one day of production at Tastykake, it would take that chicken 572 years to lay enough eggs.
  3. To build a 3-foot wide sidewalk of Butterscotch Krimpets from Center City, Philadelphia to Atlantic City you would need 30,412,800 Krimpets.
  4. To completely cover the Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey rink (60’ x 200’), it would take 172,800 Tastykake Juniors.
  5. Tastykake’s oven is half the length, 150 feet long, of a regulation football field (300 ft).
  6. Tastykake began making donuts in 1985. Today they make more than 1.4 million everyday.
  7. Tastykake bakes 250,000 pies each day.
  8. Tastykake uses the equivalent of 40,000 bushels of apples each year.
  9. You could make almost 8 million peanut butter sandwiches with the same amount of peanut butter that is used in Kandy Kakes in a year.
  10. Tastykake products use sugar cane and cocoa from Africa’s Ivory Coast; Vanilla from Madagascar; Cinnamon from Indonesia; Nutmeg from the East and West Indies and Banana Puree from Ecuador.
  11. The first day of operations in 1914, Tastykake bakers produced 100 cakes. Today, they bake over 4.8 million cakes, donuts, cookies, and pies each day.

Jelly Krimpet

  1. 280,000 Chocolate Juniors and 3,500,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked weekly.
  2. 500,000 Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes a day, over 130 million a year.
  3. 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets a day, over 160 million a year.
  4. 217,000 Chocolate Cupcakes a day, over 79 million a year.
  5. The top-selling item in the entire Tastykake line of products is Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes.
  6. Tastykake uses 135,000 lb. of sugar daily.