Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts

I honestly find this recipe misleading. It is a muffin.. And no where near the shape of a doughnut!

Now that is blasphemy!

BLASPHEMY!!!! 

Ha ha ha, but it does have the texture of a doughnut, so this one time. The name of the recipe can slide. 

WARNING: One can of canned plain pumpkin filling can make two batches of this recipe.

Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts

And here you are, witnessing me drawing some more. Ha ha ha.

For the Donuts:

1 3/4 cups                  All-Purpose Flour
2 teaspoons                Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon              Salt
1/2 teaspoon              Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon              Nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon              Allspice
1/4 teaspoon              Ground Cloves
1/3 cup                      Canola Oil
1/2 cup                       Light Brown Sugar
1 large                        Egg
1 teaspoon                 Vanilla Extract
3/4 cup                  Can of Pure Pumpkin (Not pumpkin pie filling)

For the Coating:

4 tablespoons              Unsalted butter melted
2/3 cup                        Granulated Sugar
2 tablespoons              Cinnamon

Instructions:

Preheat oven 350 degrees F. Spray a 24-cup muffin tin with baking spray and set aside. (You can also grease it with butter instead.)







In a medium bowl. whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves. In a separate large bowl, whisk together oil, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, pumpkin, and milk until smooth.



Add dry ingredients bit by bit into the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.

Divide batter evenly among muffin cups. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Approach One:
While the muffins bake, melt butter in one bowl and combine granulated sugar and cinnamon in another (small) bowl. Remove muffins from the oven and cool for 2 minutes. Dip each muffin in melted butter and roll in cinnamon sugar to coat. 

OR

Approach Two:
You can combine the ingredients of the coating together all in one bowl. Then you can scoop a tablespoon (or less) onto your doughnut muffins, and spread it around evenly.

Make sure to put these beauties in an airtight sealed container in the refrigerator to keep it nice, yummy, and fresh once it cools off.

Voila! Freshly baked out of the oven! It leaves such a heavenly smell floating through the spaces of your house. MmmMM! It leaves such a wonderful warm and comforting scent in the air that it is making my mouth water from the beautiful combination of spices. I could almost sink my teeth into it like a wild animal!

And there you go. A wonderful, flavorful pumpkin muffin that will be devoured in seconds.

No, I really mean it. I had to protect the first batch from my family and make them wait for the second batch.

The saying that I live by when it comes to baking, eating candy, or anything that applies is that, "Once you have a taste, you can never have enough." Again, I am talking about certain situations of course.

Doesn't that sound true? 

I know, I know. Sometimes we just get caught up eating a bunch of muffins that were supposed to be shaped like doughnuts. Oh well, ha ha ha.

Now for some extra side notes for you fellow beginners on baking (like myself). I have drawn a brief picture of getting from point "A" to point "B" on making this recipe. Brief and extremely vague.

So this is pretty much what is going on in my brain as I follow these instructions.

Step 1.  Whisk it all together! 

And mix it all up, that's what its all about! 

But the key rule to baking is to never over-mix your ingredients together.

Why? Because it can cause the recipe to fall flat.. Terribly. No, I really mean it. 

Do not over-mix the ingredients.

Step 2.

Then you grease your cupcake tin and fill it all up. *Claps hands*

I might need help on getting some nursery rhymes out of my head. 

But at the same time, I miss them from childhood. 

Simple, sweet, and memorable. And at the same time, twisted and dark.

Did you know ring-around-the-rosey is about the plague? Think about it.

"A pocket full of posies"? It refers to the flowers that they would stick in their pockets so they could not smell the dead bodies. Yes, I went there. And "ashes, ashes, we all fall down" is about catching the plague and dying. It is quite dark indeed.

Any who. 

The drawing of how to concoct your delicious muffin is simple enough to grasp. Yup yup.

And before I start to disappear from this post. I just wanted to share a beautiful piece of a humorous article with you.

Can I have some drum roll please?

"It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers"!

Now come come, we are all adults here. (I am hoping we all are, but who knows.)
This is a comical piece of work, besides. It is not as bad as the shows on television at times.

Yes, it may lack pictures all together, but it is one heck of a funny piece.
After all, the article is rightfully in the right season to be talked about. So why not give it a read?

Happy getting chilly weather everyone.

(Don't you love how I was writing certain details about the recipe and then started talking about nursery rhymes? That is the human mind for you. We start at one point and end at another. Ha ha ha.)