Pumpkin Donuts with Glaze

These baked pumpkin donuts are made with pureed pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling.  Although they have too many carbs to be considered healthy, they are baked and not fried and don’t have any silly food colourings or processed ingredients.  This baked pumpkin donuts recipe is so easy to make.  The texture of the pumpkin donuts is really soft and moist.  They aren’t as heavy as their fried cousins are but still have a nice pumpkin flavour.

These donuts are really easy to make, sweet and gooey just like the fried ones.

Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

Ingredients for Pumpkin Donuts

Preheat your oven to 350F and grease  your donut pan,

In a medium bowl, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices.  Mix together well to distribute the baking powder evenly.  Make a well in the center of your dry ingredients by pushing the flour out to the edges of your bowl.

In a second bowl, add the pumpkin, brown sugar, melted butter, and beaten egg.  Mix together until well blended.

Pour the pumpkin mixture into the well in the enter of the flour mixture and stir until just incorporated.

As this recipe includes baking powder you want to mix it together and get it in the oven as quickly as possible so that the baking powder reaction is occurring while in the oven.

Using a small spoon quickly scoop the batter into your donut pan. Divide the recipe into 12 donuts.

Bake for about 20 minutes, depending on your donut pan. Check them as they bake, you want to remove them as soon as they are softly spongy so that they remain moist

While the donuts are baking lay out a piece of parchment onto your counter and then a baking rack.

Let your donuts cool until you are able to comfortably handle them.  You can either dip them in a mixture of cinnamon sugar or into a glaze.

Cinnamon Sugar

Mix a tsp of cinnamon into 1/2 cup of white sugar.  Dip your donuts in the sugar and return to the rack to finish cooling.

Baked Pumpkin Donuts Glaze

You will need 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, 4 tbsp of hot water (tap water is fine), tsp of vanilla.  Mix it all together until there are no lumps.  Your glaze will be thin.

Dip you donut top down into the icing.  Invert the donuts on a wire rack and let the icing drip down onto parchment paper.

These baked pumpkin donuts are good enough they have convinced me to place a traditional donut pan on my must-have list.  Hopefully, we get to do a shopping run to Montana before Christmas and one of those pans will have come home with me.

Baked Pumpkin Donuts

Baked pumpkin donuts recipe, these baked donuts are soft and moist with just enough spice. Although the example includes a donut glaze, they are also delicious dipped in cinnamon sugar.

Print Recipe

Prep Time:15 minutes mins

Cook Time:30 minutes mins

Total Time:45 minutes mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups pumpkin
• 1 cups brown sugar
• ½ cups melted butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp cloves
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda

Glaze

• 1 ½ icing sugar
• 4 tbsp hot water hot tap water is fine
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 350F. Grease your donut pan with melted butter and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, add the flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and gloves. Mix together really well. Make a well in the center.
  
• In a second bowl, add the pumpkin, brown sugar,melted butter, and beaten eggs. Blend together very well.
• Pour the pumpkin mixture into the well in the enter of the flour mixture and stir until incorporated.
  
• Using a small spoon quickly scoop the batter into your donut pan. Divide the recipe into 12 donuts. Bake for about 20 minutes, depending on your donut pan. Check them as they bake, you want to remove them as soon as they are softly spongy so that they remain moist.
  

Optional Glaze

• In a small bowl, add the icing sugar, hot water and vanilla. Mix together until the mixture is clear and has no lumps.
• Place a sheet of parchment paper onto your counter, cover it with a wire rack.
• Once your donuts are cool enough to handle dip them top first into the icing. Invert and place on the rack allowing the glaze to drip down the sides of the donut onto the parchment.
  

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American, Canadian

Keyword: Baked Donuts

Servings: 12

Cost: $5

Other Pumpkin Recipes

Pumpkin spice is one of my absolute favorite flavours. Pumpkin has so much flavour and I really love that the recipes are not over sweet because of all the spices. Here are some other pumpkin recipes I think you will enjoy.

Pumpkin Bread Pudding

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No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe

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