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Fritters: The Thing Our Customers Name That We Never Talk About

9 September 2026 · 4 min read

We went through what customers actually write about our shops, and fritters came up over and over. Then we looked at our own website and found we had never written a single sentence about them. That is a strange thing to get wrong, so here is the fix.

What a fritter actually is

A ring donut is cut. The dough is rolled out flat and a cutter stamps out the shape, which is why every glazed donut in the case looks like every other one.

A fritter is not cut. The fruit and the cinnamon go into the dough itself, the dough gets folded over on itself, and then it goes into the fryer in a rough, uneven lump. Nothing makes it round. That is the whole point.

What comes out has ridges, folds and thin craggy edges that catch the glaze and go slightly crisp, while the middle stays soft and heavy. A fritter is the only thing in the case where the edges and the middle are two different textures. If you have ever picked the crunchy corner off one and eaten it first, that is why.

Why they are bigger than they look

A fritter is dense. There is more dough in one than in a ring donut of the same width, because none of it is a hole. People who order half a dozen fritters for a group are usually surprised — plan on a fritter counting for closer to two donuts than one when you are working out how many to buy.

Getting one

Fritters are on the specialty board every morning at all three shops — Spanish Fork, Ogden and St. George. They are made in the same bake as everything else, starting long before the doors open at 5:00am.

Here is the honest part: they are a small share of any morning's tray. Customers who write about fritters often mention getting the last one, which tells you something about the supply as much as the demand. If you specifically want fritters, two things work:

• Come early. Not 5:00am early, necessarily, but the case looks very different at 6:00am than it does at 10:00am.
• Call the shop and ask them to set some aside. This is normal and nobody minds. Same-day is usually fine.

Pricing

Fritters price as specialty. Specialty is $27.50 a dozen, and every dozen is buy ten, get two free. If you want a single, ask at the counter.

And the standing rule applies to fritters like everything else in the case: half price after 2:00pm, Monday through Thursday. A fritter at half price in the afternoon is one of the better deals we do, on the days there are any left.

What to have with it

A fritter is sweet and heavy, so it wants something plain and hot next to it rather than something else sweet. Ogden and St. George pour fresh ground coffee from Perks, a local roaster, at $2.50. Spanish Fork does not have the coffee partnership yet — that is a real gap and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

The short version

Fritters are folded, not cut. They are heavier than they look. They are on the board every morning at all three shops, they go early, and you can call ahead and have some held. We should have told you all of that a long time ago.

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