Presenting the Pizza Doughnut

— -- It’s one of those things that make you wonder why you didn’t think of it first: the pizza doughnut.

Instead, it was the random craving of Fawn Mathers, one of the bakers at the soon-to-open Dough Exchange in Santa Ana, California.

“We’ve been experimenting with different flavors and toppings for a while. Two weeks ago I was hungry and really craving pizza,” Mathers told ABC News.

And you can guess what happened next. A light bulb went off and Mathers and Tyler Mosier, another baker, got to work on the world’s first pizza doughnut.

“Obviously, you get the same joy you get from eating a doughnut, but then you combine that with the thrill of pizza,” Mosier told ABC News.

“And melted cheese stringing out from your mouth, which is really good,” Mathers added. “It adds a whole new level of fat kid problems you could never dream of.”

Mosier and Mathers fry their doughnuts to order, then top them with a garlicky San Marzano tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil before baking them in the oven to melt the cheese.

“The very first time we made it, we literally just ran into our walk-in and looked around for scraps we could use, so it’s only gotten better now that we’re actually trying to make it,” Mosier said. “So far our Instagram and Facebook has been exploding with people searching for it. We actually had three people show up this morning asking for it.”

Dough Exchange officially opens Tuesday, when all Santa Ana residents can buy as many pizza doughnuts (and regular doughnuts, croissants, danishes, cookies, pies and more) as their hearts desire. As for the rest of us: late-night pizza doughnuts, here we come.