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Baked Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts

4
Points® value
Total Time
32 min
Prep
10 min
Cook
20 min
Serves
6
Difficulty
Easy
These lightly sweetened, highly spiced treats are the perfect pick-me-up with a cup of coffee or tea. They’re made with whole-wheat pastry flour for toasty flavour and whole-grain goodness, and they contain far less sugar than most donut recipes you’ll find. If you have two donut pans (or want to bake two batches in one pan), the recipe easily doubles. On the chance that the grocery stores in your area are sold out of canned pumpkin, you can use frozen butternut puree—or roast and puree your own fresh pumpkin.

Ingredients

Cooking spray

4 spray(s)

Whole wheat pastry flour

1 cup(s)

Sugar

¼ cup(s)

Pumpkin pie spice

1 tsp(s)

Baking powder

½ tsp(s)

Table salt

¼ tsp(s)

Pumpkin puree

cup(s)

Vanilla extract

½ tsp(s)

Raw egg

1 large, lightly beaten

Powdered sugar (confectioner's)

2 tsp(s)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly coat a 6-slot silicone donut pan (¼-cup capacity each) with nonstick spray.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, granulated sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together pumpkin, vanilla, and egg. Stir pumpkin mixture into flour mixture until well combined. Scrape batter into a medium zip-top plastic bag. Snip a hole in 1 bottom corner of bag; pipe batter evenly into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake at 350°F until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool in pan 2 minutes; remove donuts from pan. Sprinkle donuts with powdered sugar.
  3. Serving size: 1 donut