Maple Pumpkin Doughnuts

Description

Baked pumpkin doughnuts are dipped into a maple glaze and finished with some finely chopped pumpkin seeds. What a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth this fall!

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, or as needed
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ¼ cup light brown sugar
  • ¾ cup pumpkin puree
  • ⅓ cup vegetable oil
  • ⅓ cup maple syrup
  • ¼ cup buttermilk
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
  • 3 tablespoons maple syrup
  • ¼ cup finely chopped roasted pumpkin seeds

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a doughnut pan with about 1 teaspoon vegetable oil.
  2. Sift flour
  3. baking powder
  4. cinnamon
  5. ginger
  6. nutmeg
  7. allspice
  8. salt
  9. and cloves together in a large bowl; stir brown sugar into flour mixture until well mixed.
  10. Whisk pumpkin puree
  11. 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  12. 1/3 cup maple syrup
  13. buttermilk
  14. and egg together in a separate bowl until smooth. Stir pumpkin mixture into flour mixture until batter is just combined. Refrigerate batter for flavors to blend
  15. 20 to 40 minutes.
  16. Scoop about 1/4 cup batter into each doughnut well.
  17. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a doughnut comes out clean
  18. 9 to 13 minutes. Cool doughnut completely in pan. Loosen edges of each doughnut with a small offset spatula or knife and transfer to wire rack.
  19. Whisk confectioners’ sugar and 3 tablespoons maple syrup together in a small bowl until glaze is smooth.
  20. Press doughnuts facedown into glaze to cover the top completely. Place doughnuts on a wire rack for glaze to set
  21. 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds over glaze.

Prep Time: 40 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Servings: 8

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