Maple Pumpkin Doughnuts

Baked pumpkin doughnuts are dipped into a maple glaze and finished with some finely chopped pumpkin seeds. What a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth this fall!

Step: 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a doughnut pan with about 1 teaspoon vegetable oil.

Step: 2

Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, salt, and cloves together in a large bowl; stir brown sugar into flour mixture until well mixed.

Step: 3

Whisk pumpkin puree, 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 1/3 cup maple syrup, buttermilk, and egg together in a separate bowl until smooth. Stir pumpkin mixture into flour mixture until batter is just combined. Refrigerate batter for flavors to blend, 20 to 40 minutes.

Step: 4

Scoop about 1/4 cup batter into each doughnut well.

Step: 5

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a doughnut comes out clean, 9 to 13 minutes. Cool doughnut completely in pan. Loosen edges of each doughnut with a small offset spatula or knife and transfer to wire rack.

Step: 6

Whisk confectioners' sugar and 3 tablespoons maple syrup together in a small bowl until glaze is smooth.

Step: 7

Press doughnuts facedown into glaze to cover the top completely. Place doughnuts on a wire rack for glaze to set, 2 to 3 minutes. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds over glaze.

Per Serving: 275 calories; protein 3.3g; carbohydrates 41.9g; fat 11.1g; cholesterol 23.6mg; sodium 209.8mg.

Eat best breakfast to start the day has become a good habit. It’s a best way to start my 24 hours off healthfully. The sugar hit from the fruit wakes me up and bring me power to take on the morning. Sugar is more vilified as the evil of all disease, but sweetness is also loaded with fibre, which is great for your digestive system and helps keep you feel full longer, and not want likely grab a side food out of the vending machine before break .

Making fruit a morning habit is easy . Easy as put the sweetness in your fridge next to the milk or on the table next to your grain bowl , or move your coffee maker or tea kettle — somewhere where you’ll find it. Before you eat the rest of your breakfast , eat your fruit. If you’re not usually a breakfast person.