"Very happy with this recipe - good taste, sweet enough as is, esp with the orange zest/sugar dusting. Dough was easy to make. The orange zest really helped set this apart as far as bumping up withe flavor profile and giving it that something special.

Only challenge: Bit of a learning curve, with dropping these into the hot oil with just teaspoons -- the donut shape kept looking like it had a "tail." Tried dropping them in more quickly and that seemed to help, but took some practice. Next time, would buy a mini ice cream scooper with built-in release to drop these in oil, like Giada demo'd on her show...seems like it would be easier to control. Also had some trouble browning these evenly on both sides, just an esthetic issue with the appearance, was totally cooked through though and tasted fine. The donut/fritter just kept wanting to stay flipped on one side, though I tried to turn them in the oil. Not sure how I could have improved on it. Will definitely make this again.

"Very happy with this recipe - good taste, sweet enough as is, esp with the orange zest/sugar dusting. Dough was easy to make. The orange zest really helped set this apart as far as bumping up withe flavor profile and giving it that something special.

Only challenge: Bit of a learning curve, with dropping these into the hot oil with just teaspoons -- the donut shape kept looking like it had a "tail." Tried dropping them in more quickly and that seemed to help, but took some practice. Next time, would buy a mini ice cream scooper with built-in release to drop these in oil, like Giada demo'd on her show...seems like it would be easier to control. Also had some trouble browning these evenly on both sides, just an esthetic issue with the appearance, was totally cooked through though and tasted fine. The donut/fritter just kept wanting to stay flipped on one side, though I tried to turn them in the oil. Not sure how I could have improved on it.