Pumpkin is the Reason for the Season!!!

It is HALLOWEEN time. Even though it's not halloweeeny ( I'm very aware that's not a word) they are pumpkin. My favorite time of the year it's getting cold. Time to get snuggled up with a good book,  some coffee,  and cook up a batch of these babies!




1/2 cup canola oil
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree (canned pumpkin , no LAZINESS with the pumpkin pie filling)
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon, heaping, ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon, heaping, ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 3/4 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Preheat the oven to 350. Grease Up your donut pan. Mine is a wilton six cavity. They are smaller so it made about a batch of 18. 
Beat together the oil, eggs, sugar, pumpkin, spices, salt, and baking powder until smooth. Add the flour, stirring just until smooth - some lumps will remain. ( I did not pull out the mixer, it is easy enough just to stir by hand)

Using a scant 1/4 cup of batter for each, fill the donut cavities 3/4 full. Bake the donuts for 12-14 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the donut comes out clean.

Remove the donuts from the oven, let cool in pan for just a couple minutes.
Then you have your choice. 
1. Dip in butter and then give them a good toss in a cinamon sugar mixture
2.Donut Glaze- 1 cup powdered sugar
                     1 teaspoon vanilla
                     3 to 4 tablespoons milk
If you use the donut glaze let them cool a bit or it will just fall off.