Pumpkin Spice Doughnut Muffins

By Texaschef11

Ingredients

• Wet Ingredients
• 2 eggs
• 1 C pumpkin (not pie filling)
• 2/3 C shortening
• 1/2 C buttermilk
• Dry Ingredients
• 3 1/2 C all purpose flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 C granulated sugar
• 1 C Turbinado sugar (optional)

Preparation

Step 1

1.Pre-heat oven to 350 F
2.Sift 3 Cups flour.
3.Using a spoon (so you don’t pack the flour down), measure out 3 ½ Cups flour into a large bowl.
4.Add baking powder, baking soda and pumpkin pie spice.
5.In a large mixing bowl cream together shortening, eggs and sugar
6.Add pumpkin
7.Alternately add dry ingredients and buttermilk to the creamed mixture, scraping the sides and mixing well between each addition.
This is a very thick batter
8.I used my cookie scoop to scoop the batter into my sprayed mini muffin tins
9.Bake for 17 to 20 minutes – do NOT overcook these
I made these with 3 different “toppings” my favorite: sprinkling the tops with turbinado sugar before baking 2nd: sprinkling them with a mixture of pumpkin pie spice and turbinado sugar 3rd. dipping the tops in butter after baked and rolling them in turbinado sugar