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Pumpkin Cake Donuts

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Description

Dairy-free, Paleo


Ingredients

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For the Donuts

  • 1 cup pumpkin purée
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/3 cup pure maple syrup, or honey
  • ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
  • 1 cup blanched almond flour
  • ¼ cup coconut flour
  • ¼ cup arrowroot flour/starch
  • 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 pinch sea salt

For The Glaze

  • ¼ cup coconut cream (the thick white cream at the top of a can of coconut milk)
  • 2 Tbs coconut butter/manna, melted
  • 2 Tbs pure maple syrup
  • 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • Chopped walnuts, for topping (optional)

Instructions

For the Donuts

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and grease a donut pan with coconut oil.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, eggs, maple syrup and oil. Until combined.
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, spice, baking soda and salt.
  4. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet, and stir until the mixture is smooth. Note: This batter will much thicker than cake batter.
  5. Spoon the mixture into your donut pan, filling each section up to the top, but not covering the holes. If your pan only holds six donuts at a time, just repeat this process after, for the remaining four donuts.
  6. Bake the donuts for 15-18 minutes. After letting them cool for 5 minutes, flip the pan upside-down, transferring them to a cooling rack.
  7. Repeat steps 5-6 with remaining batter.

For the Glaze

  1. Stir together all the glaze ingredients in a small bowl, until it is shiny and smooth, and there are no lumps.
  2. To glaze the donuts: Have the smooth, round side of the donut facing down and dip it into the bowl of glaze. Repeat with each donut. Now, eat the remaining glaze with a spoon!
  3. Now sprinkle the tops of the donuts with chopped nuts (optional).
  4. Serve! Enjoy these delicious, delicious donuts with family and friends.