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Pumpkin Beer Donuts

Delicious donuts packed with pumpkin spice flavor and made using your favorite pumpkin beer
Course Breakfast
Keyword baking with beer, fall pumpkin recipes, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin spice donuts
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 20
Author Melissa Slyh

Ingredients

For the Donuts Ingredients:

  • 12 oz Pumpkin beer
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice

Pumpkin Pie Spice Sugar Coating Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 stick butter melted

Instructions

To make the donuts:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  Whisk the pumpkin beer, pumpkin puree, sugar, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract together in a bowl.
     
  • In another bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice together.
  • Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and stir to combine.
  • Grease a baking donut pan.  Spoon the mixture into each donut space about ¾ full.  Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the donut.  Allow the donuts to cool slightly, and transfer to a cooling rack.  Repeat for the remaining donut batter.

To make the sugar coating: 

  • Combine the sugar and pumpkin pie spice together in a bowl and stir until incorporated.  The melted butter should be kept separate in another bowl that’s large enough to dip the donut in.
  • Create a dredging station, and dip each donut into the melted butter, then into the sugar mixture, coating them thoroughly.  Rather than dunking each donut into the butter, I like to use a basting brush and brush the butter onto the donut.  I think it makes the butter go a little bit further.