Pumpkin Donuts Recipe
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These made-from-scratch Pumpkin Donuts are easy and versatile. Top them with one of the options below or your own favorites. Enjoy them as a snack or pair them with some fresh fruit and Greek yogurt for a balanced breakfast.
Some mornings just require donuts. But when Autumn rolls around, you need a special kind of donut. A pumpkin donut!
- These pumpkin donuts are a healthy alternative to greasy, carby, fried donuts.
- These are made with all-natural ingredients and no refined sugars or fats.
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Recipe originally shared by a fellow blogger, Kristen at My Mission Impossible. This blog is no longer in existence.
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Pumpkin Donuts Recipe
Ingredients
Donuts
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
- â…“ cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. baking powder
- â…› tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ¼ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk (or plain)
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 4 packets stevia
Glaze
- ½ scoop whey protein powder (I used cinnamon swirl but vanilla is fine too)
- 1 tbsp. unsweetened vanilla almond milk (or plain)
- ½ tsp. pure vanilla extract
- stevia to taste if needed
Instructions
- Prehat oven to 350° F.
- Whisk all ingredients together and carefully pour into doughnut pan. Don’t fill too high or you won’t have a hole in the middle of your doughnut!
- Bake for 20 minutes or until done.
- For the glaze, simply whisk all the ingredients together in a small mixing bowl and pour over the donuts after they have cooled.
Notes
Nutrition
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I can’t wait to try these. I love anything pumpkin. Are these a different recipe than your other doughnuts? I made those and they were pretty good. Thanks.
Yes, this is a different recipe.
mm donuts are delicious! I have a little donut maker that I could put this recipe in! yummy!
Hmmm…. I wonder if it’s dependent on the brand of protein powder you use perhaps? I’ll have to ask her and see what she used.
Try hemp milk or coconut milk. I would think that any milk would work.
Oh! Well that explains the green color. Spirulina is green.
Well that’s good to know – thanks! It doesn’t have a green tint in the container, so I wouldn’t have guessed that was it. Thanks for diagnosing for me!
Sure!
I’m not sure. I leave it up to my guest bloggers to provide that. You can use any calculator on the web site figure the data.
These look ABSOLUTELY scrumptious! Totally wish I still ate sugar & flour – LOL
Looks yummy! Great snack for over the holidays!
I’m not sure, but I can try to find out.
Oops… please change my last comment… it should have said that I am looking forward, not that I am NOT looking forward… So sorry about that!!!!
how many calories per donut?
Af – Sorry, you’d have to enter the recipe into a recipe calculator. This information was not provided to me by the person who shared the recipe.
How do we prepare the glaze? There are no instructions for it. Unless, when she said whisk all ingredients together she meant the glaze ingredients too, bit I imagine not.
Kristy – Sorry about that. Just updated the post.
Do you think I could just make this in a cake pan instead of into donuts?
Megan – It might be okay, but you’d probably have to play around with the baking time a bit. Let me know how it turns out!
I only have liquid stevia. Can I substitute that for the packets? If so, how much would I use? I can’t wait to try these. I think my boys will really like them. Thank you!
Christina – I’m sure you could, but you’d have to google a stevia substitution chart. I’m not sure what the exchange is. Let me know how they turn out!
Made these with maple extract since I ran out of vanilla. So yummy! Thank you for the recipe. I didn’t realize that the recipe yields 12 mini donuts or 6 large donuts, so I had extra batter to make another batch 🙂
Daniele – Wonderful! So glad you enjoyed them! 🙂