Used to love them, then went off the increasingly rubbery and awful texture of shop bought ones...
And then found the video i think someone else has linked up thread - made our own a couple of weeks back.
Oh my god - fuck the bloody diet, they are incredible. They are a faff, you really do have to get the temp and timings right and do NOT rush them... but they are worth absolutely every bit of the effort involved.
Plus if you have had to stand there gazing at them, poking their little tops to get the holes right and generally faffing with them all that time, you feel FAR less guilty for slapping on a fuck ton of butter and scoffing the lot.
I have also made pikelets with that recipe, just a spoon of batter, no ring. Whilst technically (according to video bloke) not a pikelet, as a pikelet requires milk, and making a dough that is then let down into a batter after one rise, but who the fuck can be arsed - I cannot tell the bloody difference at all (and I have eaten a LOT of pikelets in my time!).