I love "fry cake" donuts and this donut maker is wonderful and makes the best fry cake donuts, 4 at a time, for family fun and snacking. I have tried all the recipes and all have turned out perfectly without any bitter tastes or off smells. We love the buttermilk chocolate recipe. To make the buttermilk I use evaporated milk in the can and white vinegar. I always keep evaporated milk on my pantry shelf because we do not use milk on a regular basis and when I need it, I grab it off my self and mix with water according to the can directions. I use the full Tablespoon of baking powder but I do mix and then sift the dry ingredients to incorporate them well before I add the wet ingredients. We add 1 teaspoon of coffee extract to the chocolate recipe to pop the chocolate taste. We also add 2 teaspoons of ground cayenne pepper and a 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon to the chocolate recipe to make Aztec Devils Food fry cakes. To make frosting them easy we just use store shelf cake frostings. To make a glaze, you just heat up the white frosting in the microwave so it just melts and dip each donut and but them on a wire rack to drip but everyone seems to like the frosting right out of the container spread on them with sprinkles or jimmies or crushed peanuts. These are not deep fried, fluffy, yeast donuts that you fill with jelly or Bavarian cream. These are FRY CAKES: a baked, sweet cake like donut that you see in the Hostess powdered donut box but these are fresh and even yummier than Hostess! If your child loves to bake, this is great but I would recommend the parent removing the baked donuts out of the machine to avoided the child possibly getting burned fingers. Next weekend we are going to try the boxed Jiffy corn bread mix from the store and make cornbread rounds and if they turn out we'll use them on our Thanksgiving table along with the cranberry rounds we have already made from the Jiffy muffin mix. We did freeze some to see if they would be good thawed and they were but we always eat them up and never have any left over to freeze.