These easy baked Pumpkin Donuts are topped with a glorious maple glaze and have incredible pumpkin flavor! Supremely moist and bursting with flavor, this easy pumpkin donuts recipe is the quintessential fall breakfast! Bake some up today!
More fall breakfast favorites include these Pumpkin Pancakes and Pumpkin Muffins!
Pumpkin Donuts Recipe
It appears that fall is finally on it’s way here in Sacramento. We are expecting rain the next few days and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I am SO over the summer. I’m celebrating with these fabulous Baked Pumpkin Spice Donuts with Maple Glaze. These babies just scream fall, in the nicest possible way.
I realized the other day that as much as I adore donuts, I have a whopping ONE donut recipe on my site. Whaaattt?? Clearly a situation that needs to be remedied STAT.
Baked Pumpkin Donuts
These donuts are baked and that’s become my favorite donut-making method over the past several years. There is hardly any mess and you can make at least six donuts at a time which is the key to a happy family in my opinion. Nobody likes to wait for donuts around here.
I pipe my batter into the donut pan because I haven’t mastered the art of spooning it in. My donuts always come out lumpy if I spoon it in. Be like me, pipe it, and you won’t have lumpy issues either!
The donuts rest for a few minutes before getting dipped into the most glorious maple glaze ever. Like seriously, EVER.
The glaze is fabulously thick so there’s no need to double-dip. That is, unless you want to. If so, by all means. I, for one, never say no to more maple goodness. Never…
This donut is bursting with pumpkin flavor. Made with pure pumpkin, tons of pumpkin spice and pumpkin creamer, it’s about as pumpkin-y as you can get. I also used the creamer in the maple glaze for a bit more pumpkin pie spice flavor. Unforgettable.
If you don’t have access to pumpkin spice creamer, milk, half and half or heavy cream are all great substitutions.
The pumpkin puree does its magic in these donuts, keeping them perfectly moist and flavorful.
I love how easy these donuts are to make and they could not be any tastier. I can tell we’ll be enjoying these donuts for the next several months!
More Pumpkin Recipes To Try
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
- Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Muffins
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pumpkin Bars with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
- No BakePumpkin Cheesecake Trifle
How To Make Pumpkin Donuts
Baked Pumpkin Donuts with Maple Glaze
Ingredients
Pumpkin Spice Donuts
- 1 cup pure pumpkin not pumpkin pie filling
- 2 eggs room temperature, lightly beaten
- ¼ cup pumpkin pie spice coffee creamer or milk or half and half
- ¼ cup coconut oil or vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- ½ teaspoon salt
Maple Glaze
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice coffee creamer or milk or half and half or heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 1 â…“ cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Donuts
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Spray donut pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- Combine pumpkin, eggs, creamer, oil and vanilla extract in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt.
- Gradually add flour mixture to wet mixture and stir just until combined.
- Transfer batter to a large ziploc bag and pipe into donut pan.
- Bake for 11-13 minutes or until donuts spring back when touched.
- Remove from oven and let donuts rest 4-5 minutes in pan before removing to a cooling rack.
- Let cool an additional 5 minutes before glazing.
Maple Glaze
- While donuts are baking…
- Heat butter, maple syrup and creamer together in a small saucepan until butter is melted and ingredients are fully combined.
- Stir in maple extract.
- Whisk in powdered sugar 1/3 cup at a time until full incorporated.
- Dip slightly cooled donuts in glaze and return to cooling rack.
- Let glaze set and then serve.
Mir says
Wow. What a great way to start donuts on your site! I love this glaze. Maple is the best glaze!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Maple is definitely my fave Mir! Thanks for stopping by!
Chris says
Save some for me! Those look amazing.
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Gotcha covered 😉
Averie @ Averie Cooks says
Those are the most perfect donuts! And I love that glaze…omg, I want to drink it! Pinned 🙂
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
I may have used a spoon once or twice…just for testing purposes you understand 😉 Thanks Averie!
Tash says
Anything made with pumpkin (and pumpkins spice) + maple syrup utterly has my heart. Here’s to yet another craving!! They look so tasty and warming.
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Heck yes! Mine too Tash! Thank you!!