Best Ever Pumpkin Cake Doughnuts
These Pumpkin Cake Doughnuts are the BEST! Supremely moist and fluffy, they're packed with pure pumpkin flavor and topped with a pumpkin spice glaze!
Servings: 18 donuts
Equipment
- Donut pan
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1½ cups (One 15-ounce can) pure pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie filling
- 1½ cups granulated white sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or 1½ tsp ground cinnamon plus ¼tsp each nutmeg and ginger
- 1 tsp salt
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1¾ cups PLUS 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- ⅓ cup pumpkin spice flavored coffee creamer
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° degrees F. Liberally spray a 6- or 12-count donut pan. If you have a 6-cavity donut pan, you'll have to bake in 3 batches; if you have a 12-count donut pan, you'll have to bake about 2 times. Regardless, you'll want to respray the donut pan after each batch.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the oil, eggs, pumpkin puree, granulated sugar, and vanilla until smooth. Add in the salt, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and flour and mix until combined with a rubber spatula. Mixture will be thick.
- Fill each donut cavity about 3/4 full - using about 1/4 cup of batter per donut cavity. I like to put the donut batter into a piping bag and pipe it in for best results.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes or until donuts are baked and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean or with moist but not wet crumbs. Cool for about 5 minutes, then carefully invert them onto a wire rack. Repeat with remaining donut batter.
- For the glaze: In a medium bowl, whisk together the confectioners' sugar, pumpkin spice coffee creamer and vanilla until combined and smooth. Dunk the tops of the baked and slightly cooled donuts into the glaze, allowing excess to drip off. Return to the wire rack to allow the glaze to set.
Notes
I used a Wilton donut pan, but any donut pan works!
After each batch of donuts bakes, I recommend re-spraying the donut pan with more cooking spray to prevent sticking.