THEIR arrival in Scotland two years ago provoked the sort of frenzy last seen when Elvis touched down at Prestwick.

As crowds gathered overnight and traffic jams caused chaos on the outskirts of Edinburgh, it was clear that the world's most sought-after doughnut was in the building - or at least, an outlet at Hermiston Gait retail park.

Two years on, however, fans of Krispy Kreme's famous glazed rings in the west of Scotland have been left disappointed by the brand's failure to cross the country's great cultural divide and set up shop in Glasgow.

Now, one entrepreneurial superfan has taken matters into his own hands and launched a door-to-door home delivery service so that Krispy Kreme lovers in the Glasgow region can get their fix without leaving the house.

Mark Dorricott hit on the idea of offering home deliveries after visiting the chain's Edinburgh outlet for the first time earlier this month.

The 24-year-old from East Kilbride said: "When I was in Edinburgh last week, me and my partner drove through it.

"Afterwards I was saying 'wouldn't it be great if someone offered a delivery service to the west of Scotland?'. Then I thought, 'why not me?' and so I set up a Facebook page.

"The next day we had half a dozen orders already."

Sweet-toothed customers willing to pay £10 for delivery can now order anything from a box of six doughnuts for £8 to a gut-busting "double dozen" for £17 via Mr Dorricott's new 'Donuts to your Door' website.

Currently, sales of the sweet treats are restricted to the east coast where they are baked fresh at the drive-thru store in Hermiston Gait retail park, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, and distributed to a second Krispy Kreme outlet in Livingston. Smaller supplies are also distributed to a handful of nearby Tesco supermarkets in Alloa, Falkirk and Stirling.

The opening of the US chain's first Scottish branch in February 2013 sparked scenes on a par with an Apple product launch, as customers queued overnight to buy the first doughnuts off the production line and police eventually warned drivers to avoid the area altogether as Krispy Kreme-buying motorists caused days of gridlock.

This was tame in comparison to the drama seen at some outlets around the world, however. When Australia's newest branch opened in Adelaide last summer police were called to deal with 20 disturbances in its first week - including one incident where two teenagers were robbed of their doughnuts at knifepoint.

Mr Dorricott, who also runs a printing business called Print Guru, is currently doing the deliveries single-handed but expects that high demand for the service will allow him to recruit additional delivery drivers in future.

He will complete his fourth delivery run today.

He said: "This is something quite new to me so I'm just seeing how it goes, but there's absolutely the demand for it. I'm looking at ways to franchise the business out to other locations where we deliver to, but that's something I need to investigate more. It's very early days."

Mr Dorricott stressed that he was not marketing himself as an official Krispy Kreme supplier, and said the representatives of the chain had already been in touch after learning of his venture to advise him against using any of their trademarked logos.

He said: "I don't want to do anything that might upset Krispy Kreme, so I don't use their logo or anything. I don't want to be taken to court. But I think this will bring us both business, and that's a good thing for them too."