Cake Pumpkin Donuts
These fried cake pumpkin donuts are packed with pumpkin flavor. Topped with a simple glaze these donuts are a perfect fall recipe. They are perfect with a nice cup of coffee or your favorite fall beverage.
Equipment
- Deep fryer or Dutch oven
- Spider skimmer or slotted spoon
- 2 Mixing bowls
- Donut cutter, or a biscuit cutter and large piping tip
- Rolling Pin
- Whisk
- Wooden spoon or spatula
- Lined sheet pan with baking rack
Ingredients
- 4 cups vegetable oil
Pumpkin donuts
- 3½ cups bread flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- 1 cup pumpkin purée
- ½ cup buttermilk room temperature
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 3 tablespoons butter melted
- 1½ tablespoons baking powder
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin spice blend
- ¾ teaspoon salt
Glaze
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
Instructions
Making the dough
- In a mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Whisk to combine and set aside.
- In another mixing bowl whisk the eggs, then add the sugars, pumpkin, pumpkin spice blend, butter, and buttermilk and whisk to mix well. Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and using a spoon or spatula to mix until combined.
- Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours.
Cooking the donuts
- Preheat the oil in a Dutch oven or deep fryer to 350F or 177C and like a sheet pan with paper towel and place a baking/cookie rack on top.
- Once the dough is ready, on a lightly floured surface roll the dough out to about a ½ inch thickness. Using the donut cutter or biscuit cutter cut out the donuts by dipping in flour first and then cutting out the donut hole. Repeat this process trying to cut out as many donuts in the first roll.
- Gently combine the dough, you can add the holes back in, and roll out to ½ inch thickness and repeat cutting out donuts. After the second roll discard any remaining dough or turn into donut holes.
- Add 4-6 donuts into the hot oil depending on the size of pot or deep fryer. Cook for 2 minutes before flipping onto the other side and cooking for another 2 minutes.
- Set the cooked donuts on the baking rack. Continue the process with the remaining donuts and donut holes.
Glaze the donuts
- In a bowl combine the powdered sugar, milk, and nutmeg. Stir until combined. Dip the donuts into the glaze and set back onto the cooling rack. Repeat until each donut has been glazed.
Nutrition
Serving: 1donutCalories: 306kcalCarbohydrates: 43gProtein: 4gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 199mgPotassium: 74mgFiber: 1gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 1996IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 78mgIron: 1mg
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