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Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

Our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe will be your new favorite autumn baking recipe! I’m pretty sure my middle name should be pumpkin this time of year! I love it. Today’s Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts are made with pumpkin puree, flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and all the autumn spices! To make them extra tasty we coat them in a cinnamon and sugar mixture that’s sure to make every person in your family pumpkin-happy! Serve today’s Baked Pumpkin Donuts for breakfast, brunch, or an after school treat! 

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Our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe will be your new favorite autumn baking recipe! by cookingwithruthie.com

Bake to your hearts content with our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

I adore pumpkin baked goods, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin soup, and even candles and aromatics! I know. Possibly pumpkin overload?! I’m not sure if that’s possible… 😉 What is your favorite pumpkin dish?

Ingredients in our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

  • Allpurpose flour- is a general use white flour. It is not a whole flour, and only the starchy endosperm is used, without the germ and bran portion of the kernel. It is a blend of hard and soft flours or hard flours with a protein content (gluten) of about 9 to 12 percent.
  • Pumpkin Puree- I use canned pumpkin puree purchased at the grocery store, any variety will work just great. If you feel adventurous and want to make your own pumpkin puree (which fun but time consuming) then just be sure the consistency is similar to that of canned pumpkin puree. 
  • Butter- I can’t emphasize enough the importance of bringing your butter and eggs to room temperature. It’s the foundation of building a creamy, smooth dough. If I have enough time before baking I will set butter out on the counter to reach room temperature. If I’m running tight on time then I will place my butter in the microwave for 5-10 seconds but BE CAREFUL not to melt it. . . at all! It’s better for the butter to be a little stiff then even a tiny bit melted. The friction of the beaters as it mixes will warm it the rest of the way; just cream/mix it a little longer, if needed, to get that creamy-smooth and fluffy consistency we are looking for.
  • Leavener- We are using Baking Powder. Both baking powder is a chemical leavening agents that cause batters to rise when baked. The leavener enlarges the bubbles which are already present in the batter produced through creaming of ingredients.
  • Granulated Sugar- Granulated sugar is also sometimes known as white sugar, or “regular” sugar. Granulated sugar has had all of the naturally present molasses refined out of it. The fine crystals in granulated sugar don’t cake together, which makes it perfect for measuring, sprinkling onto food and dissolving into drinks.
  • Eggs- I place my eggs in a small bowl of very warm water while I’m gathering all the other ingredients and prepping to bake then when I’m ready to add them into the batter they have reached the perfect temperature! Add your eggs one at a time and cream for 2 minutes, then scape the bowl down using a rubber spatula, and add the next egg. This is the best way to be sure the eggs are incorporated evenly into the batter. Beating each egg individually is essential because eggs act as a leavener which brings the loft (height) into your baked goods. 
  • Autumn Spices- pumpkin pie spice, sea salt, cinnamon, and sugar

Our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe will be your new favorite autumn baking recipe! by cookingwithruthie.com

Fit Friday Fun!

 Well, we are into full blown chaos and schedules at my house. It has been a bit crazy at times and I want to pull out my hair most of the time it is still better than the alternative of having all my kids with me 24/7. Early morning workouts are certainly being utilized, hoping to get as much done as possible before every one else is up and moving.

Today we are hitting the gym with a HIIT workout that will certainly start your day off right. HIIT is a high intensity workout meant to make you sweat. 

The goals is quality AND quantity. Don’t go so fast that you lose the movement. Focus on the movement, on what you are doing, and push that movement as hard and as fast as possible for the time limit. 

Enjoy our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe and some of these too!

Our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe will be your new favorite autumn baking recipe! by cookingwithruthie.com

 

Yield: 18

Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

Skinny Baked Pumpkin Doughnuts by www.whatscookingwithruthie.com

Our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe will be your new favorite autumn baking recipe!

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 whole egg and 4 egg whites (or 2 eggs)
  • 1 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 (14ounce) can pure pumpkin puree
  • 1/4 cup butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin spice
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Lightly coat 2 donut pans with cooking spray; set aside.
  3. Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy (approx 3-4 min).
  4. Add pumpkin puree and butter; mix.
  5. Add spices, salt, and baking powder; mix until incorporated.
  6. Add 1 cup flour; mix in, add remaining flour; mix just until incorporated.
  7. Fill a gallon zip top bag with batter, snip 1/4 inch off the end of one corner, fill each doughnut tin 3/4 way full (I circled the dough around twice in each mold).
  8. Bake 15 minutes or until springs back with light touch.
  9. Meanwhile place remaining cinnamon and sugar in small zip top baggie; set aside.
  10. Cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes, remove from pan, one at a time place doughnuts into cinnamon/sugar mixture and gently turn to coat, remove to cooling rack to complete cooling.
  11. Repeat with additional doughnuts.
  12. Enjoy your Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe!
  13. ** if you don't have a doughnut pan, a muffin tin works great, too.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

18

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 153Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 255mgCarbohydrates: 30gFiber: 1gSugar: 19gProtein: 3g

Enjoy our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe they’re an autumn pumpkin delight! 

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  1. […] Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts […]

  2. Jen M says:

    Thanks for the recipe! I needed a “skinny” Thanksgiving dessert to share at my daughter’s school on Thursday. All the parents are supposed to bring desserts and I had no idea what to make. Then I remembered reading about your cookies on The House of Smiths and figured I’d try out one of your recipes.

    • Ruthie says:

      You’ll love them… they’re very tasty and the kids will love them too! I just love Shelley… so glad you found me through her. I hope your daughters party is a lot of fun, it’s always fun to help out with those. Thanks for the nice comment! xoxo~ Ruthie

  3. Barb says:

    Where can I find nutritional information?

  4. These look delicious + your photos are gorgeous Ruthie!

    • Ruthie says:

      Hi Rebecca, thank you so much for the nice comment… you’re so sweet! I seriously could not stop eating those- they’re beyond delicious 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie

  5. Jenny Layton says:

    Oooh! Can’t wait to try these!

  6. Your donuts look professionally made! I’m loving that they’re baked which does mean that we can eat a lot more of them. At least that’s how I would rationalize eating more than one. Or two. Thank you so much for sharing this post at our Making Monday link party. We really appreciate you. I’m pinning it to our Making Monday board to share it with our followers. Have a fabulous weekend and have fun at the home show. I actually will be in SLC this weekend but have family plans all day Saturday. Otherwise, I would come wander around and say hello!

  7. Dina says:

    skinny doughnuts are always appreciated!

  8. Jaclyn says:

    These look and sound amazing! I love that they are skinny too!

    • Ruthie says:

      Oh my goodness… I seriously ate almost half of them myself! They’re just perfect- which is a good and bad thing 🙂 Thanks for the nice comment and hope you have a great night! xoxo~ Ruthie

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