This Recipe is great way to get you into the fall spirit!
A must make during the fall season when pumpkins are abundant in the markets. The pumpkin spice aroma and pumpkin pie flavor wrapped in cinnamon sugar will surely bring moments of joy. Coffee makes a great complement to this sweet autumn treat but it’s also good just as an anytime snack!
Kitchen Tools Needed:
- Donut pan: We use a silicone donut mold pan.
- Medium and Large Mixing Bowls: One for wet and one for dry ingredients.
- Whisk
- Ziploc Bag or Piping Bag: A quart size is easier to handle but a gallon size will hold all of the batter.
- Cooling Rack
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin Puree: We make this ahead of time instead of buying canned. We found we like the taste of homemade roasted pumpkins and (as an added bonus) it fills the house with a wonderful pumpkin aroma.
- All-purpose Flour
- Ground Cinnamon
- Baking Powder
- Pumpkin Spice
- Salt
- Ground Nutmeg
- Baking Soda
- Sugar
- Vegetable Oil
- Eggs
- Vanilla Extract
- Milk: in our house, we use lactose free milk, but you can use regular milk as well. I have not tried using soy milk in this though.
How to make the Pumpkin Cake Donuts:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease your donut pan with butter and set aside. You can use a spray, like Pam, but I find using real butter gives you a richer flavor in the end.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, pumpkin spice, baking soda until combined and set aside.
- In a large, separate, bowl whisk the sugar and oil together.
- Once sugar and oil are combined, Whisk in the eggs, vanilla extract, and roasted pumpkin puree until smooth. You can use a stand mixer for the wet items if you want to make it a little bit easier.
- Add half of the dry mixture and mix until combined. Then add in the milk and combine. Then add in the remaining dry mixture until combined.
- Fill a large piping bag (or large Ziploc bag) with the batter and cut the corner off about a half of an inch.
- Pipe the batter into each donut mold about 2/3 full. Be careful not to overfill the mold.
- Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until browned (you can also stick a toothpick in and if it comes out clean, they are done).
- When done, remove the pans from the oven and place on a cooling rack.
- While the donuts are cooling, combine cinnamon and sugar and melt the butter.
- Once the donuts have cooled, dip them in melted butter and then in cinnamon sugar mixture. Then place back on the rack. (if you don’t want more sugar, the donuts are just as delicious with no coating!)
- Once sugar mixture is set, enjoy!
Pumpkin Cake Donuts
The no fry donut you'll hate to love!
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cup flour
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp pumpkin spice
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil can I replace with butter??
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup roasted pumpkin puree**
- ¼ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease donut pan with butter and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour cinnamon, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, pumpkin spice, baking soda and set aside.
- In a large separate bowl whisk (or cream together if able to use butter) the sugar and oil.
- Once sugar and oil are combined, add in the eggs, vanilla extract, and roasted pumpkin puree until smooth
- Add in half of the dry mixture, mix until combined. Then add in the milk and combine. Then add in the remaining dry mixture until combined
- Fill a large piping bag (or large Ziploc bag) with the batter and cut the corner off about a half of an inch.
- Pipe the batter into each donut mold.
- Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until browned (you can also stick a toothpick in and if it comes out clean they are done).
- When done, remove the pans from the oven and place on a cooling rack
- While the donuts are cooling, combine cinnamon and sugar and melt the butter.
- Once the donuts have cooled, dip them in melted butter and then in cinnamon sugar mixture. Then place back on the rack.
- Once sugar mixture is set, enjoy!
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