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Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnuts.
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Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnuts

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup 115 grams milk
  • 1 package active dry yeast or 20 grams fresh yeast
  • 1/4 cup 50 grams granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons 25 grams shortening
  • 1/4 cup 55 grams canned pure pumpkin
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp. ginger
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon strong coffee
  • 2 1/2 cups 350 grams all-purpose flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 2-3 cups vegetable oil for frying

Café Latte Glaze

  • 2 tablespoons 40 grams melted butter
  • 2 tablespoons 20 grams coffee
  • 1 tablespoon 15 grams milk
  • pinch of cinnamon
  • 1 cup 120 grams sifted powdered sugar

Instructions

  • Microwave the milk for 30 seconds. Pour it into the bowl of a stand mixer. Stir in the yeast and sugar and let proof for 5 minutes.
  • Add the egg, shortening, pumpkin, spices, vanilla and coffee and stir to combine.
  • doughnut dough in bowl.
  • Add the flour and salt and knead with a dough hook on medium speed until it pulls away from the sides and forms a ball.
  • Place the dough ball on the counter and cover with the mixing bowl. Let rise for an hour.
  • Remove the bowl. Gently roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface until it’s about one-inch thick.
  • Cutting circle out of doughnut dough.
  • Using a 3-inch circle cookie cutter, cut out 8 circles. You will need to knead together scrap pieces of the dough to form the last few circles.
  • making hole in doughnut dough.
  • Use a one-inch circle cookie cutter to cut out the centers. Save those for doughnut holes.
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnuts and doughnut holes rising.
  • Cover the doughnuts and doughnut holes gently with plastic wrap and let rise for 30 minutes.
  • Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot until it reaches 350 degrees F (175C).
  • doughnuts frying.
  • Slide 3 doughnuts into the hot oil and let fry for 1-2 minutes.
  • doughnuts frying.
  • Flip using a fork or chopstick. Continue cooking until golden brown. Remove from the oil and drain on a rack-lined baking sheet. Continue cooking the doughnuts and doughnut holes.
  • glaze in bowl.
  • Combine all the glaze ingredients in a small bowl. Whisk until smooth.
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnuts.
  • Dip the cooked doughnuts and holes in the glaze. Serve warm.
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnuts.
  • Yield 8 doughnuts with 8 doughnut holes
    Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnut holes.
  • or about 80 doughnut holes.
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte Doughnut.