The perfect breakfast or snack for fall, these Easy Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes pair perfectly with your PSL or warm apple cider!

Easy Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes

Are you a donut fan? Serious question as I know not everyone is. I do love me some donuts and usually am all about the fluffiest donuts I can find but every once in a while the mood will strike for a cake donut. Enter, pumpkin donut holes. These pumpkin donut holes are perfect to fill that craving and I don’t even have to leave the house. So, even if you don’t love donuts this recipe is still worth the try… just think of these as bite sized pumpkin cakes instead!

Ingredients FOr Baked pumpkin Donut Holes

Nothing too crazy here, just make sure to get pumpkin puree, not pie filling!

vegetable oil
pumpkin puree (not pie filling)
sugar
large eggs
flour
baking soda
baking powder
salt
ground cinnamon
pumpkin pie seasoning

How to Make Easy Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Prep a muffing tin with baking spray and set aside. Add 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon into a zip loc bag. Shake the bag to mix the sugar and cinnamon. Set aside. Whisk vegetable oil, pumpkin puree, eggs, and 1 cup of sugar in a large bowl until combined. In a second bowl add the flour, baking powder, salt, 3/4 tsp of cinnamon, and pumpkin pie seasoning whisking until combined. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time mixing until all ingredients are combined. Using the small ice cream scoop form the dough into a ball, Place the dough balls into the bottom of the prepared muffin tins. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. When the donut holes have baked allow them to cool for 5 minutes. Put 1 donut hole in the zip loc bag at a time to cover them with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Serve immediately and enjoy!

Tools Used to make this Recipe:

Cookie Dough/Ice Cream Scooper: This is great for perfectly sized cookies.
Wilton Muffin Pan: Love Wilton products, top quality.
Measuring Cups and Spoons: These are nice and durable for all the upcoming holiday baking.

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Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes

Ingredients

1/2 C vegetable oil
1 C pumpkin puree (not pie filling)
1 1/4 C sugar divided into 1 cup and 1/4 cup portions
2 large eggs
1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon divided
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie seasoning
Muffin tin
Baking spray
2 - large bowls
zip loc bag
whisk
small ice cream scoop

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Prep a muffing tin with baking spray. Set aside.
Add the 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon into a zip loc bag. Shake the bag to mix the sugar and cinnamon.
Set aside.
Whisk vegetable oil, pumpkin puree, eggs, and 1 cup of sugar in a large bowl until combined.
In a second bowl add the flour, baking powder, salt, 3/4 tsp of cinnamon, and pumpkin pie seasoning whisking until combined.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time mixing until all ingredients are combined.
Using the small ice cream scoop form the dough into a ball, Place the dough balls into the bottom of the prepared muffin tins.
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
When the donut holes have baked allow them to cool for 5 minutes.
Put 1 donut hole in the zip loc bag at a time to cover them with the cinnamon sugar mixture.

Easy Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes