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Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts

October 9, 2019 by fourseasonsofautumn No Comments
Call me basic but Pumpkin Spice is my favorite season. It just is. Is there anything better than a warm donut and cider on a crisp fall day?? These Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts are so easy to make and the calorie count is drastically lower than traditional donuts – so you can have 5. Right?
What makes this recipe so easy? Just a handful of ingredients and the Pampered Chef Donut Pan. If you don’t have one, get one immediately. It’s AMAZING! Why spend so much time trying to create a perfectly round donut when Pampered Chef has a reasonably price pan to do the work for you?? And it cleans up so nicely!
Pampered Chef Donut Pan
I added these donuts to the table at a recent Fall Harvest Dinner Party that I had and they were the perfect sweet treat at the end of the night. They also served as cute tablescape decor.
One of the guests at the party is a self-proclaimed donut snob and said he wouldn’t like baked donuts. So, I went to the local cider mill to buy some so we could do a taste test. Guess what donut he picked as the traditional donut??? This one! Yeah – I’m a little proud about that one – haha!

Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts

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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

  • butter for greasing the pans
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 3 leggs
  • 1.5 cups sugar
  • 1.5 cups canned pumpkin
  • 1.5 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice or ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon plus heaping ¼ teaspoon each ground nutmeg & ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1.¾ cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

For Coating

  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease your Pampered Chef donut pans.
  • To a large mixing bowl add the oil, eggs, sugar, pumpkin, spices, salt, and baking powder. Beat together on low speed until smooth.
  • Mix in the flour by hand just until combined. Try not to overmix.
  • Put about ¼ cups of the batter to fill each donut hole of the pan.
  • Bake for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
  • Cool in the pan 5 – 10 minutes then turn out from the pan running a knife around the edges if needed.
  • Let them cool completely.
  • In a bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon together. You could also add to a large plastic food bag and shake the donuts in it.
  • Use a pastry brush to coat the donuts in butter then dip them in cinnamon sugar or shake them in the bag of cinnamon sugar.

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