Ricotta Zeppole
Craggy little Italian fried doughnuts with a crisp shell and a soft, almost custardy middle, buried under powdered sugar. No yeast, no rising time, one bowl of batter dropped straight into hot oil.
35 min
GF
Donuts & fried doughs
10 recipes
Funnel Cake
Crisp, lacy rings of fried batter under a snowdrift of powdered sugar — the state fair classic, made in your own kitchen in under half an hour. The batter comes together in one bowl while the oil heats.
35 min
GF
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New Orleans Beignets
Pillowy squares of yeasted dough fried until they puff hollow and golden, then buried under a snowdrift of powdered sugar. Best eaten standing over the sink, five minutes out of the oil.
55 min
GF
Classic Cinnamon Churros
Crisp, deeply ridged churros with a soft, steamy center, rolled in cinnamon sugar while they're still too hot to hold. They come together from a stovetop paste in under an hour, no yeast and no rising time.
45 min
GF
Churros with Thick Chocolate Dipping Sauce
Deeply ridged churros that shatter when you bite them, still steaming inside, rolled in cinnamon sugar while hot. The chocolate sauce is thick enough to coat a churro and stay put.
50 min
GF
Classic Baked Vanilla Cake Donuts
Tender, nutmeg-scented cake donuts that bake in about ten minutes and never touch a drop of frying oil. One bowl of batter, a quick dip in vanilla glaze, and you have a dozen donuts before the coffee finishes brewing.
31 min
GF
Buttermilk Cake Donut Holes
Scoopable buttermilk batter fried into crisp-edged, tender little spheres and tumbled in cinnamon sugar while still hot. No yeast, no rolling, no cutting — about forty minutes from bowl to breakfast.
40 min
GF
Classic Fried Cake Donuts
Tender, nutmeg-scented buttermilk donuts with craggy edges, a fluffy cakey middle, and a vanilla glaze that dries to a thin crackle. One bowl of dough, an hour in the fridge, and about a minute per side in the oil.
55 min
GF
Classic Glazed Yeast Donuts
Pillowy, slow-risen donuts fried until deep gold and dunked in vanilla glaze while still warm. This is the donut-shop texture you can't buy at a supermarket: shatteringly thin crust, cloud-soft inside.
185 min
GF
Glazed Apple Fritters
Craggy, golden fritters loaded with cinnamon-spiced apple chunks and finished with a thin vanilla glaze that cracks when you bite in. No yeast, no rising time — batter to breakfast in under an hour.
45 min
GF