Our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe will be your new favorite autumn baking recipe! I'm pretty sure my middle name should be pumpkin this time of year! I love it. Today's Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts are made with pumpkin puree, flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and all the autumn spices! To make them extra tasty we coat them in a cinnamon and sugar mixture that's sure to make every person in your family pumpkin-happy! Serve today's Baked Pumpkin Donuts for breakfast, brunch, or an after school treat!  Our Friday's are always better with Miss Nichole from Pure Clean Fitness! Happy, happy Fit Friday!! So happy that she comes every week to share her awesome fitness knowledge with us. If you want check out more of our Fit Friday posts then CLICK HERE! 

Bake to your hearts content with our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

I adore pumpkin baked goods, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin soup, and even candles and aromatics! I know. Possibly pumpkin overload?! I'm not sure if that's possible... ;) What is your favorite pumpkin dish?

Ingredients in our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe

• All-purpose flour- is a general use white flour. It is not a whole flour, and only the starchy endosperm is used, without the germ and bran portion of the kernel. It is a blend of hard and soft flours or hard flours with a protein content (gluten) of about 9 to 12 percent.
• Pumpkin Puree- I use canned pumpkin puree purchased at the grocery store, any variety will work just great. If you feel adventurous and want to make your own pumpkin puree (which fun but time consuming) then just be sure the consistency is similar to that of canned pumpkin puree. 
• Butter- I can't emphasize enough the importance of bringing your butter and eggs to room temperature. It's the foundation of building a creamy, smooth dough. If I have enough time before baking I will set butter out on the counter to reach room temperature. If I'm running tight on time then I will place my butter in the microwave for 5-10 seconds but BE CAREFUL not to melt it. . . at all! It's better for the butter to be a little stiff then even a tiny bit melted. The friction of the beaters as it mixes will warm it the rest of the way; just cream/mix it a little longer, if needed, to get that creamy-smooth and fluffy consistency we are looking for.
• Leavener- We are using Baking Powder. Both baking powder is a chemical leavening agents that cause batters to rise when baked. The leavener enlarges the bubbles which are already present in the batter produced through creaming of ingredients.
• Granulated Sugar- Granulated sugar is also sometimes known as white sugar, or “regular” sugar. Granulated sugar has had all of the naturally present molasses refined out of it. The fine crystals in granulated sugar don't cake together, which makes it perfect for measuring, sprinkling onto food and dissolving into drinks.
• Eggs- I place my eggs in a small bowl of very warm water while I'm gathering all the other ingredients and prepping to bake then when I'm ready to add them into the batter they have reached the perfect temperature! Add your eggs one at a time and cream for 2 minutes, then scape the bowl down using a rubber spatula, and add the next egg. This is the best way to be sure the eggs are incorporated evenly into the batter. Beating each egg individually is essential because eggs act as a leavener which brings the loft (height) into your baked goods. 
• Autumn Spices- pumpkin pie spice, sea salt, cinnamon, and sugar

Enjoy our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe and some of these too!

• Chocolate Chunk Pumpkin Overnight Oats
• Skinny Pumpkin Cream Cheese Loaf
• Pumpkin Bars with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
• Pumpkin Pancakes w/ Carmel Cinnamon Syrup
• Gluten-Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Biscotti
• Homemade Pumpkin Pie
• Pecan Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
• Pumpkin Pie Galette
• Pumpkin Bars
• Pumpkin Spice Bars
• Pumpkin Cream Cheese Dip
• Pumpkin Ice Cream
• Pumpkin White Chocolate Pistachio Cookies

Enjoy our Skinny Baked Pumpkin Donuts Recipe they're an autumn pumpkin delight! Now Fit Friday with Nichole:

 Well, we are into full blown chaos and schedules at my house. It has been a bit crazy at times and I want to pull out my hair most of the time it is still better than the alternative of having all my kids with me 24/7. Early morning workouts are certainly being utilized, hoping to get as much done as possible before every one else is up and moving.

Today we are hitting the gym with a HIIT workout that will certainly start your day off right. HIIT is a high intensity workout meant to make you sweat. 

The goals is quality AND quantity. Don't go so fast that you lose the movement. Focus on the movement, on what you are doing, and push that movement as hard and as fast as possible for the time limit.

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