Pumpkin Spice Donut Muffins

If you have been hanging around here this week you know I have been trying to keep things real. Letting you know a little about myself. Here is something you should know. I love pumpkin. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins, whipped pumpkin hair mousse, pumpkin flan....just call me Bubba.

There's a farm not too far from my home that makes a mean pumpkin spice donut that just makes me want to do run. I absolutely despise running, but by golly if I had to, I think, I would run all the way to Post Family Farms to get me one of their donuts. Unless, Big D felt sorry for me, in that case I would just stay home and let her bring me a box of them.

If you missed the story about how Big D thought we were going to have to put our dog Jack to sleep and brought me pumpkin spice donuts then just take a minute and go back to that day.

The picture above is my own creation, inspired by the Pumpkin Spice Donuts at Post Family Farm and The Pioneer Woman's French Breakfast Puffs. I used Ree's puff recipe as a home base and came up with these marvelous morsels.

Take a look at that. Now if that isn't something that makes you salivate...well then you need to go see your doctor, because your saliva glands must be malfunctioning.

I told you I was still trying to keep it real with you. The day I made these muffins I also made cinnamon rolls (4 dozen) and banana chocolate chip muffins. So this is what my kitchen island was looking like right about an hour into all that.

The recipe makes 18 muffins. Here's what you will need:

Pumpkin Spice Doughnut Muffins

printable recipe

preheat oven to 350 degrees

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

1 cup sugar

2/3 cups Crisco shortening

2 large eggs

1/2 cup +1 tablespoon buttermilk see note

1 cup canned pumpkin (no sugar or spices added)

coating

2 sticks of butter melted

1 1/2 cups sugar

3 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1. blend sugar, shortening, and eggs until creamy.

2 add pumpkin to the above, mix until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl often.

3. mix dry ingredients together in a large measuring cup or bowl. Measure out your buttermilk.

Still keepin it real...

4. Alternate adding the buttermilk, and dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture.

Scraping down sides of bowl until everything is fully incorporated.

5. grease muffin tins, I use non-stick cooking spray, fill muffin tins 2/3 full.

6. bake at 350 degrees for 22 minutes, remove from oven and dump out onto a cookie sheet


7. After letting muffins cool just long enough so you can handle them(30 seconds), set up this scenario for the coating. Melted butter in one dish, and mix the cinnamon sugar in another and set a cookie sheet close by.

Take muffin and dunk it in to the butter, make sure it takes a dip in the butter, you want it completely covered so the sugar will stick.

Take out of butter and dredge immediately in to the cinnamon sugar. Make sure the muffin is completely coated with sugar, no bare spots.

I have to say I am really, really sorry, because after you make these muffins, your family may find you in a corner somewhere totally bonked out on these things. Covered in crumbs, eyes glazed over, mumbling...pppuumkinnn..puuuummmkin..spICE, mama, dada.


Hey, I told you I was tryin' to keep it real around Strawberry Land. Well, just in case you wondered if I had some sort of special light box or something to take pictures in, not that my pictures are professional or anything. I don't! There is nothing professional or photo shootish about my food photography. I just have friends that stop in because of the mind controlling muffins. They stop by to make sure I am holding it all together....and well maybe to get a fix for themselves. This would be Dee. See that glazed over look in her eyes? That's the look. The muffin mind controll look.

Hi Dee! Thanks so much for stopping by and helping out. Dee is crazy busy these days check out what she's been up to. I really do think the mind controlling powers of the muffins drew her in. She was hollering from the garage, "WHAT are you baking?", before she even came in the house.

One last picture to see if your saliva glands are functioning. If this doesn't do it you need professional help.

In the words of my father "scrump-dilly-icious!"