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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.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American, Canadian
Keyword Baked Donuts
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 12
Cost $5

Ingredients

  • 2 cups pumpkin puree frozen or canned
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp baking soda

Vanilla Glaze

  • ¼ cup milk
  • 4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups vanil icing sugar ( powdered sugar)a

Cinnamon Sugar

  • ¼ cup granulated white sugar
  • 1 tbsp ground cinnamon

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.
    Pumpkin donut recipe for fall ingredients.
  • In a second bowl, add the pumpkin, brown sugar,melted butter, vanilla 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.
    A large bowl full of mixed pumpkin donut batter for baked donut recipe for Fall
  • 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.
    Pumpkin donut recipe being spooned into a baking donut pan.
  • You can test if they are baked by lightly pressing on top. If they spring back they are done. Or you can stick them with a toothpick, if the toothpick comes out dry, the donuts are baked.
  • While the donuts are baking lay out a piece of parchment on your counter and then a wire rack. Once baked place them on a cooling rack while you make the vanilla glaze or cinnamon sugar.
  • Let your donuts cool until you can comfortably handle them. You can either dip them in a cinnamon sugar mixture on both sides or dip just the top into the vanilla glaze. Let cool to room temperature before eating.
    Pumpkin donuts being glazed as part of a pumpkin donut recipe.

Crunchy Cinnamon Sugar Directions

  • In a small bowl, add 1/4 cup of white sugar and 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon. Mix with a small whisk until blended. Dip your donuts in the sugar and return to the rack to finish cooling.

Vanilla Glaze Directions

  • Mix the 1/4 cup milk and tsp of vanilla. together. Add 2 cups icing sugar and mix very well. Mix it all together until there are no lumps.  Your glaze will be thin.