Aug 4, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
In this special episode we chatted with Australian creator Anthony — better known as Donut Daddy — whose glossy glaze‑pour videos turned him into a TikTok sensation almost overnight. What started as…
I really love that too.
It's a really wholesome sort of journey.
And, like, did you watch videos of other people doing it? Like, I've just got this one.
yeah, vision in my mind at the moment where you had, you know, a whole big dough and you're slapping it.
Like, what were you, what are you thinking when you're doing it? Like,
what
are your thoughts?
Yeah, no.
So the thing was that where it really started was that one of my first like Instagram posts that I put out there was, And this was like 10 years ago.
It was like me, it was on Valentine's day.
And it was just me with a box of donuts wearing like nothing at all.
It was just my donuts covering me.
And, and it actually was popular.
And it got like a lot
of,
you know, that's really where the idea started.
Right.
But what happened with this video was, you know, I'd kind of like mastered the art of making the donut and, um, And there was really not many other chefs online doing like cooking and stuff.
But I did see some kind of like artistic, like sexy style kind of thirst trap videos online.
And I kind of just combined like the two together.
And from combining the two together, that's kind of where it kind of came to life.
But yeah.
was all kind of play on the the lighting and then obviously like i knew how to make the donuts so the dough was always going to be like the first kind of thing in the video and And then, yeah, I think the video that went viral, that one was, yeah, it was literally like me with the dough, like slapping it.
And that's kind of where it started.
I really love that too.
It's a really wholesome sort of journey.
And, like, did you watch videos of other people doing it? Like, I've just got this one.
yeah, vision in my mind at the moment where you had, you know, a whole big dough and you're slapping it.
Like, what were you, what are you thinking when you're doing it? Like,
what
are your thoughts?
Yeah, no.
So the thing was that where it really started was that one of my first like Instagram posts that I put out there was, And this was like 10 years ago.
It was like me, it was on Valentine's day.
And it was just me with a box of donuts wearing like nothing at all.
It was just my donuts covering me.
And, and it actually was popular.
And it got like a lot
of,
you know, that's really where the idea started.
Right.
But what happened with this video was, you know, I'd kind of like mastered the art of making the donut and, um, And there was really not many other chefs online doing like cooking and stuff.
But I did see some kind of like artistic, like sexy style kind of thirst trap videos online.
And I kind of just combined like the two together.
And from combining the two together, that's kind of where it kind of came to life.
But yeah.
was all kind of play on the the lighting and then obviously like i knew how to make the donuts so the dough was always going to be like the first kind of thing in the video and And then, yeah, I think the video that went viral, that one was, yeah, it was literally like me with the dough, like slapping it.
And that's kind of where it started.
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