The last time I started a post like this it was dreary, rainy, I had been left home alone on a Friday night. It was slow in the showroom, I was tired and the dogs and jammies were calling my name.
Guess what? It wasn’t raining…it wasn’t Friday. But we were under a level 2 winter storm warning with another round coming in two days. The showroom was slammed. Apparently everyone who was sent home from work because the roads were too treacherous had just enough snow driving skills to make it by the granite shop before they had to scurry off for their milk and bread. Milk sandwiches are popular around here…
We closed the showroom just in time to slush through the worst of it and rush home ourselves. I live in East Tennessee, we don’t have snow. I don’t own appropriate winter clothes much less shoes. I was soaked when I got home. And cold. And hungry. And oooooh yeah, I had a box of spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin. And a warm oven. And a doughnut pan. This was happening.
Pumpkin Spice Cake Doughnuts – 3 Weight Watchers Smart Points (2PPV) per serving (6 servings)
Ingredients:
- slightly less than 1 cup of any brand spice cake mix
- 1/4 of a can of pumpkin (just pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling)
- 1/4 cup of water
- Non stick spray
- Optional 1 tsp melted mini chocolate chips – add 1 SP
- Optional 1 tsp coarse sugar – add 1 SP
- Optional 1 tsp melted peanut butter – add 1 SP
- Optional 1 tsp unsweetened shredded coconut – add 1 SP
- Optional 1 tsp powdered sugar – add 1 SP
Spray a 6 doughnut pan and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 while you mix ingredients. In a medium size mixing bowl with a spout use a fork to mix cake mix, pumpkin and water thoroughly but don’t worry about small lumps. Batter should be thin enough to drop easily into the doughnut cups with just a little nudge from your fork but not so thin that it runs in by itself. Add the mixture evenly into the 6 doughnut cups. Bake on 350 for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool for at least 5 minutes so that the doughnuts will “set” before you try to remove them from the pan. If you are going to freeze any of these (as if they will last that long) allow them to cool completely or they will form ice crystals. Should keep in freezer well for up to 2 weeks.
Have your tea ready because you’re going to want to eat these immediately once you smell them! Let me know what others you come up with or try these as soon as they come out of the oven.
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