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Vegan Pumpkin Donuts with Cinnamon Sugar. Soft, Spiced, Amazing. Vegan Doughnuts. Pumpkin Cinnamon sugar Donuts. Nut-free option. Gluten-free option
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One more before I head off to a small break. These easy Pumpkin donuts are quick to put together and bake up beautifully. Make the batter, get the family involved in squeezing it out into the doughnut pan. Bake, add toppings of choice. I use a simple cinnamon sugar topping. a pumpkin pie spiced glaze or Cream cheese glaze would work wonderfully as well. These Baked doughnuts taste like fried! Try them.
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More fall breakfast options
- 1 Bowl Pumpkin Bread SF
- Spiced Sweet Potato Doughnuts with Cinnamon sugar SF
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
- 1 bowl Banana Apple Bread SF
- Gingerbread Cake SF
- Sweet Potato Crumb Cake. GF SF
Savory
- Broccolini White Bean Frittata. SF GF
- Lentil Frittata. GF SF
- Chickpea zuchhini friiters/pancakes SF GF
- Fluffy Chickpea flour Omelet. SF GF
- Sweet Potato Shakshuka GF
This elegant aging puffball has kept us on our toes this year. He is one smart bum and has opinions on many things. I am grateful that his cough has finally broken after 5 weeks and he is feeling his chirpy (and demanding) self again, loving long walks, waking us up early, expressing his opinion loud and clear. Keeping our fingers crossed that the cough and inflammation stay at bay. I am thankful for family, who supports us in so many ways whether some understand our choices or not. I am thankful to have this platform to share some fun creations, to have you all who visit, try them and leave wonderful notes. You are amazing!
If you haven’t already, check out this video of Cornelius the turkey. So much personality, so much attitude!, so many hugs. Please keep these intelligent birds off the table.
Vegan Pumpkin Donuts
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1/2 cup non dairy milk, such as almond or soy
- 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp active yeast
- 2 tbsp safflower or refined coconut oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract, (1/2 to 1 tsp to flavor preference)
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- a generous pinch of nutmeg
Dry:
- 3/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour, + 1 to 2 tbsp more as needed
- 2 tbsp almond flour , or use 1 tbsp more flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
Cinnamon Sugar:
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 4 tbsp cane sugar , or granulated sugar
Instructions
- Grease the donut pan. Warm the non dairy milk until hot. Mix with the rest of the ingredients except yeast and mix well until sugar is combined. Add the yeast and mix in.
- In a bowl, mix 3/4 cup flour and rest of the dry ingredients. Add the flour mix to the wet and mix in. Add a tbsp or so more flour if needed (if the mix is runny). Let the mixture sit for 10-15 minutes.
- Spoon into greased donut pan. You can also fill up a ziplock, cut one end and squeeze the batter into the pan. Let the pan sit for another 10 minutes for the batter to rise, Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake for 11 to 12 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes then remove from pan.
- Add cinnamon and sugar to a small ziplock bag and mix. Take the warm donuts, add to the ziplock, shake. Remove from the ziplock and serve. You can also use a bowl to make the cinnamon sugar topping, and dip the donuts in the bowl to coat. The warm donuts are moist enough so the topping should stick. If you'd like more topping, brush oil on the donuts before dipping.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Made these this morning. I only had unrefined coconut oil so I did that. How would that affect things? Also lovely video of the animals 😀
Awesome! Probably just some coconut flavor.
This vegan pumpkin donuts are so yummy and interesting! I’m not a vegetarian but I love pumpkin. I prefer pumpkin – it may reduce cancer risk, protect the skin, boost your mood and other! Thx for sharing Richa!
Hi, it looks delicious
For the pumpkin puree, are you using a fresh pumpkin or a cane?
canned pumpkin puree. if you are using fresh pumpkin that you roasted and then mashed, you might need some additions tsp of non dairy milk to get the same consistency of the batter
Would you have to roast it? Can you steam it? Would it just add more flavour?
fresh pumpkin, yes roast it and then mash to make puree
I just made these and they were delicious! I used rice malt syrup in lieu of sugar for the dough (same quantity) and baked them in a regular muffin tray as I don’t have a donut pan… I just gave them an extra 5 minutes’ baking time. The cinnamon sugar would only stick to the bottom and the sides, but that worked for me too. Thanks Richa!
Awesome! you can brush the tops with oil or some syrup to help.
Could i use only all purpose flour instead of almond flour??
yes, see recipe ingredient list where it says just use more of the flour for almond flour
Absolutely amazing! Made these this morning and my boyfriend and I devoured them immediately. Taste just like fried!!
Awesome!!!
My family would LOVE this! Yum!
I loved the video! Every animal has a personality and a soul. We must treat them with respect and compassion. Happy Holidays!
I want to make these but I don’t have a pan. Would it work if I rolled these into balls and baked them to make donut holes?
The mix is more like a batter, so it would hard to make it into balls. If you have a mini muffin pan, use that and they can kind of work as donut holes.
Yum, definitely making these tonight.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, Richa! I’m thankful for all of the delicious recipes you share with the world. 🙂
<3 <3 Happy Thanksgiving to you too Tasha!
Mine didn’t turn out still undercooked. I cooked for 14 mins still underdone.
Just bake longer, The pans, ovens,, flours etc can change the baking time significantly. Bake 3 to 4 mins longer and check.Check with a toothpick before taking the donuts out so that you can continue baking them