Pumpkin Spice Latte Donuts

Name: Pumpkin Spice Latte Donuts
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2 dozen
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 3 teaspoons baking powder; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 4 teaspoons of ground cinnamon; 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 teaspoon ground cloves; 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 2 tablespoons of instant coffee granules; 1 1/2 tablespoons of water; 2 cups of white sugar; 3/4 cup of vegetable oil; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I used Nielsen Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract); 2 cups canned pumpkin (16 oz. can); 4 eggs; 1/2 cup butter (melted); 1 cup sugar; 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves; 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

September 22, 2013 By Nicole Cook 73 Comments

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I am so glad that Fall is here. When I think of Fall, it means pumpkin in my head. It means, it’s finally okay to cook and bake with pumpkin and people won’t think I’m weird. It’s the time I can admit to using pumpkin because it’s the right season. The rest of the time, I just keep quiet about it.

Yeah, I’m that girl. And I’m not ashamed.

So last year, during pumpkin season, I began the grueling task of trying to duplicate the popular Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte at home. It wasn’t too hard, because there were dozens of different recipes out there already, so I had a base to work with and then just kept changing it until I made it my own. Probably isn’t exactly like Starbucks, but I didn’t care because I loved my version.

Towards the end of the season, I started trying to put together a donut that had the same flavors as the Pumpkin Spice Latte. I made donut batch after donut batch, adding and subtracting ingredients (with milk, without milk, with loads of strong coffee, with hardly any coffee, with cream, with less spice, with more spice, using a coffee simple syrup, then using a pumpkin spice simple syrup, using both, etc. etc. etc. until I could get as close to the Pumpkin Spice Latte flavor I loved and wanted in this donut.

Finally, in August of this year, I created a donut that to me, was the closest I could get to what I wanted.

Which was? A moist, spicy, pumpkin flavored donut that tasted like a pumpkin spice latte, but also looked appealing too. (the more coffee I used, the more brown the donut became and looked less appealing but still tasted amazing)

Did I do it? I think I did. In fact, we love these so much we’ve already made this version about 5 times this year.

I couldn’t wait to share them, but when I saw our #SundaySupper theme this week was Fall Foods, I knew I could wait at least until then. So here we are today, with my delicious Pumpkin Spice Latte donuts that I’m proud of.

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