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A delicious pumpkin mini donut recipe for all of you. 
Have I mentioned lately how much I love all of you?
I love the sweet comments you leave me here, the debates you help me settle on Facebook (such as watermelon: salted or no?), the tweets you tweet me, the way you pin my photos and stumble my recipes. I love all of that and I love you.
Sorry. I might be a little hormonal right now. Either way, it’s a big ol’ love fest up in here. I think I even feel a tear coming on. Just one, though. Don’t freak out.
To thank you for always brightening my day, I made you donuts. Pumpkin donuts, to be precise, because in case you haven’t noticed, Fall has arrived. It’s chilly out, the windows are all open, the days are getting shorter, and I’ve had to purchase new jeans for the kids because apparently they grew 14 inches over the summer. Also, my son now wears men sized shoes. He’s eleven. That really has nothing to do with Fall or donuts, but I felt it was worth mentioning. Eleven. Men’s shoes. Oh, and while we’re on the subject of my babies growing up, my daughter lost her first tooth last night. Yeah. That happened.
Cinnamon and sugar are a great topping for these pumpkin donuts
Back to the point. I made pumpkin donuts. Then I rolled them in cinnamon and sugar, because I have a serious weakness for cinnamon-sugar coated donuts. They’re always the best kind. Glazed are nice, but they’ll never compare to the cinnamon-sugar kind.
Oh, did I mention? There is more than just donuts in this big love fest of a blog post. There is a mini donut maker. For you! Er, one of you anyway.
I was shopping awhile back as I am wont to do, and I ran across the cutest little mini donut makers. There were also cupcake makers, whoopie pie makers, and cake pop (!) makers. I generally don’t like to buy appliances that serve only one purpose, but these were bright, colorful, and they made me smile. So I bought two. One for you and one for me.
photo snagged from the babycakes website
So, if you’d like one of these adorable little donut makers yourself, just leave a comment letting me know approximately how long you’ve been reading Buns In My Oven. Winner will be chosen randomly, so feel free to be honest about the fact that you just moments ago stumbled upon my site for the first time while googling something creepy. Also, please mention what creepy thing you were googling so that we can all judge you.
This contest is only open to residents of the US and I apologize for that. It’s just that the post office scares the fluff out of me already and trying to figure out how to mail a package out of the country would probably be too much for my delicate sensibilities to handle.
Enter through Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12pm CST. This post sponsored by me. And love. And probably hormones, too.
Pumpkin Donuts
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose or white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- Cinnamon and sugar for rolling
- 1/2 cup butter for dipping
Instructions
- If using a babycakes donut maker, turn it on to preheat. Otherwise, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease a donut pan or regular cookie sheet.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, mix together the dry ingredients.
- Beat in the pumpkin, eggs, milk, and butter until well combined.
- Fit a pastry bag with a large tip and fill with the donut batter. Alternately, fill a large ziploc bag and snip off the end.
- Pipe into the donut maker or donut pan.
- If using the donut maker, cook for about 3-5 minutes, checking for doneness with a toothpick.
- If using the oven, bake for about 10-12 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Melt the 1/2 cup of butter in a small dish and mix together cinnamon and sugar in a second dish for dipping.
- Dip the donuts in the butter and then the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Store in an air-tight container.
Nutrition Information:
recipe adapted from food.com
Chellcey Vecchio says
Best recipe and I’m so happy I finally found one for my mini donut maker. How long does the left over batter stay good for in the fridge ?
Karly Campbell says
I’m so glad you enjoyed these! I haven’t tried storing the leftover batter and I’m not sure how well it would hold up.
Linda Sapp says
These donuts look simply marvelous, darling! Judging by the ingredients, I think they will be delicious!
Linda Sapp says
I’m so very, very glad I found your site today. Yes, it’s my first day on your site. I’m a newbie. But I don’t think I’ll be one for long because I’ve been looking for low sugar recipes and you seem to have them. I was looking for low sugar recipes using pumpkin and I found your donuts. And then I saw the brilliant yellow donut machine and then I knew I wanted to tell you I really want one. You see, I bought one for our granddaughter for Christmas and she and her family love it. So now I can make donuts and share recipes with her. Isn’t that great?!!! I really love that yellow color; it’s beautiful! I’m not sure where you bought it but her machine was a pretty pink one. I think I really prefer the yellow one though.
Thank you for the opportunity to have one. I’d really love it if I won but I never do. So there! But thanks anyway!
Debra says
I know this is an old post but I just found it and actually just bought a donut maker. Your pumpkin donuts looked fabulous – much better than mine. It was a comedy of errors. Used my fairly new kitchen aid (love!) and followed your recipe to a t. Mine do not have that beautiful tender soft looking yellowy tinge to them like yours do. I guess that could be because of the color of the pumpkin. My dough turned out super thick and sticky so I had a problem getting the dough into the donut maker. I also cut the end of the bag way too big. Finally I just put a blob in each donut ring and closed the lid. It cooked the donuts but if I made these again I think I would add more milk. Can you see anything I did wrong and why the dough would have been too thick?
Serena says
We had to add 1/8 cup of milk and 1/4 cup of pumpkin and the dough still took a lot of muscle to push out of my pancake batter squeeze bottle.
Jessie says
How many donuts does this make? I was thinking of doubling the recipe. Also, would these make good donut holes in my cake pop maker?
Karly says
This will make around a dozen regular sized donuts. They’d be great donut holes!
Serena says
We used this recipe and added 1/8 cup more of milk and 1/4 cup more of pumpkin. In our mini doughnut machine it made about 26 mini doughnuts.
Edi @ SunCakeMom says
I’m curious how will this be without sugar and buckwheat flour. Pumpkin should be sweet enough without adding any extra sugar to it.
Karly says
Pumpkin really isn’t sweet at all, so I don’t think these will taste great without any sugar. You might get by with reducing it a bit, but it’s going to affect the texture. I don’t bake with buckwheat flour, so I’m not sure how that will work.
Edi @ SunCakeMom says
I guess it depends on the type of pumpkin you use then. I’ve got some peanut shaped pumpkin at my local store every now and then and those are sweet. Well, not as sweet as dumping them with sugar but still. 🙂 Anyway I’ve finally gave them a try and they were a treat! Not with buckwheat though as I hadn’t been courageous enough yet 🙂
Annette West says
I joined FB about 4-5 years ago, and one of my first liked recipe pages was yours.
Your recipes are down to earth, everyday type and easy to make – and I love love love recipes!
I already have a mini donut maker that I purchased in the US a year ago (US Thanksgiving / Black Friday) and I love it so I’m not really looking for another one – but if I win another one – I would be still happy to receive it!
Andrea says
Just found you a few days ago!! And I’m so grateful I did!! Pumpkin and donuts?!?!? Umm, yes, please!!!
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