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Pumpkin Doughnuts
Recipe courtesy Hedy Goldsmith
- Total Time:
- 1 hr
- Prep:
- 20 min |
- Inactive Prep:
- 25 min |
- Cook:
- 15 min
- Level:
- Easy
- Yield:
- 16 large doughnuts
Ingredients
- Vegetable oil for frying
- 2 tubes buttermilk biscuits, such as Pillsbury Grands Buttermilk Biscuits
- 2 cups regular cream cheese, such as Philadelphia
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- Zest of 1 orange
- 3/4 cup solid pack canned pumpkin
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- Pinch ground cloves
Directions
Place a kitchen towel on the counter. Open the packages of biscuits and lay the biscuits on the towel in a single layer. Cover with another slightly damp towel. Set aside for 20 to 25 minutes while you prepare the filling.
Fill a heavy, deep saucepan halfway with oil and heat over medium-high heat to 350 degrees F on a candy thermometer. Please don't fry in oil any cooler than 350 degrees F; it will make your doughnuts greasy and yucky.
In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, add the cream cheese, sugar and orange zest and cream on medium speed, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the pumpkin, molasses, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, salt and nutmeg and continue to mix until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 more minutes. Fill a pastry bag with a large open tip with the pumpkin mixture and set aside.
Prepare the dusting for the doughnuts in a large mixing bowl; add the sugar, cinnamon, allspice and ground cloves, toss to combine and set aside.
Fry the biscuits in batches of 2 or 3 until golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Carefully with tongs, lift the biscuits (doughnuts) out of the hot oil allowing them to drain over the oil for a second. Toss the warm doughnuts in the the spiced sugar.
Make a hole large enough along the edge of the doughnut to fit the tip of the pastry bag. Pipe the pumpkin filling into each doughnut and eat these babies right away!