Lightly crisp on the outside, tender and cakey on the inside, these fried Italian ricotta doughnuts are perfect for breakfast or dessert.

Italian Zeppole are easy to make yeast dough balls that are fried and coated in powdered sugar.

These Italian Zeppole donuts are the easiest homemade zeppole without yeast! Ready in 30 minutes.

An Italian tradition for St-Joseph’s Day, my zeppole are baked instead of fried and filled with a sweet ricotta cream.

Soft and fluffy pumpkin ricotta zeppole rolled in a cinnamon sugar mix. Makes a quick and easy anytime dessert.

These Butternut Squash Donuts (actually zeppole) are so fast and easy! They’re going to be your new favorite fall treat!

Soft and perfectly sweet Italian fried doughnuts made with ricotta cheese and infused with orange zest

Zeppole are one of the most popular Italian doughnuts: a delicious bite to taste walking around the downtown of Naples!

This honey drenched Italian Christmas cookie, in the shape of a rose or intricate pattern has a crispy texture and is simply delicious!

Gluten-Free Fried Zeppole – The French call them beignets. The Polish call them pączki. Actually, they’re doughnut holes. Total yum!

Orange ricotta zeppole are crisp, light, fluffy, barely sweet, scented with bright orange, and are pretty much the sexiest doughnuts EVER.

A gluten free, rich, thick and lightly scented lemon infused pastry cream recipe. Perfect for zeppole!

Classic pastries for St.Jospeh’s Day, they’re perfect anytime of the year. Soft, fluffy, filled with custardy cream. Simply irresistible!

St. Joseph’s day Italian pastries, or known as Zeppole di San Giuseppe in Italy, are pastry cream filled cream puffs with a cherry on top!

Zeppole, Ricotta Doughnuts are crunchy on the outside and pillowy soft on the inside. Simply a snap to make at home.

The traditional Zeppole are flavored with orange and oven baked till golden brown, then filled with vanilla bean pastry cream.

A typical Italian dessert to celebrate all the fathers in the world. (in Italian)

Ricotta zeppole – Italian fluffy fried doughnuts that are eaten on St. Joseph day (in Polish)

Keeping some wonderful childhood memories alive with this recipe for scr’pell … Traditional Molisani Christmas Eve Fritters.

Pillowy soft dough with raisins that is deep fried until golden brown then rolled in sugar while still warm.

Zeppole di San Giuseppe – a Neapolitan treat made with a lemon infused pastry cream piped on a shell, topped with a sour cherry.

You are going to love these little Zeppole. They are like tiny little clouds of goodness. The secret ingredient is Ricotta!