Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Donut Holes
These homemade Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Donut Holes are sugar, spice, and absolutely nice! Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes are such a quick and easy fall dessert, and would make a perfect fall breakfast recipe!
Servings: 24 Donut Holes
Ingredients
Pumpkin Donut Holes
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon*
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg*
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger*
- 1/4 tsp ground all spice*
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves*
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
Topping
- 5 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted melted
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2-3 Tbsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 24-cup mini muffin tin well.
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, all spice, and cloves.
- Add in the egg, and mix until combined.
- Add in buttermilk, vanilla extract and melted butter. Mix until just combined.
- Lastly, add in the pumpkin puree and mix until just combined.
- Drop about 1 Tbsp of batter into each mini muffin cup.
- Bake for 9-10 minutes, or until the pumpkin donut holes ‘spring’ back when touched.
- Once the donuts have cooled, roll each donut hole in the melted butter, and then immediately roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Enjoy!
Notes
*Alternatively, you could substitute pumpkin pie spice for these spices. If substituting, I suggest using 1/2 tsp cinnamon + 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice.