Sunday, October 16, 2011

Pumpkin Old Fashioned Donuts


It's Sunday and I'm back with pumpkin treats! Talk about deja vu, right?

When treats are good though, one can excuse repetitive use of ingredients. Besides, I've got pumpkin on the brain. Halloween is fast approaching and they're popping up everywhere--along with those 'fun sized' candy bars that will be my undoing.

So lets just get right down to how today's post came about. One of the added perks of being a blogger is you get lots of very friendly folks emailing you, offering to send you things to try. I tend pass on about 99% of these just because I'm a busy lady and I've got enough stuff to eat and store in my home without people sending me more and trying to finagle a blog post--and because no one has offered to send me an Audi TT (Audi, what gives?).

I do however like the opportunity to give things away to my readers. So today, thanks to the lovely folks at McCormick, I have a box of goodies for one lucky reader in the U.S. of A packed with goodies like McCormick vanilla extract & food colorings, and a few other little treats from Le Creuset, Mui, Wilton and Palderno World Cuisine to assist with your baking fun. 



For my part, I'm whipping up a Halloween themed post. I had several ideas, all utilizing the standard company of Halloween players. Some very cute, some scary and some complicated. In the end though, I settled on tasty. Tasty and pumpkin-y. 

Besides, my last pumpkin recipe didn't use exactly one can of pumpkin and that made those with the small cans of pumpkin, like commenter Katie, go all sad-emoticon.

That makes me :( too. 

I also had leftover pumpkin, so today we're using it and we're making a batch of festive fall donuts.


: ) @

See what I did there?


So today we're pulling a recipe from a local Seattle icon, Top Pot donuts. They've just released a cookbook and I'm pulling a page and baking up their old fashioned pumpkin donuts.  

Full disclosure: I love old fashioned donuts. Love them. They're far and away my favorite donut and for some reason, rarely make it into donut cookbooks. Those heavy, craggy glazed confections sustained me at university. Nothing warms the soul and spikes the blood sugar at 5am like a big old fashioned.

Of course, the comforting combination of pumpkin and spice makes the ordinary old fashioned all that much better. Perfect on chilly mornings with a cup of coffee or piping hot cider. 


Now the old fashioned is a cake-style donut, but unlike its standard cake brethren it is cooked longer and at a lower temperature. This--and a few tweaks to the ingredients--is what gives the donut it's heft, moistness and craggy petals. This is also one donut that actually manages to taste good the next day. I actually prefer them the next morning as something seems wrong about a warm old fashioned, but that's just me. 

Pumpkin Old Fashioned Donuts
yields one dozen
3 cups (355g) cake/soft wheat flour + more for cutting and rolling
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt 
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons McCormick Pumpkin Pie spice
1/2 cup (100g) sugar
2 tablespoons shortening/vegetable lard
2 large egg yolks
2/3 cup sour cream (165ml)
1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree (120ml)

canola oil, for frying

Pumpkin Glaze
4 1/2 cups (450g) powdered/icing sugar, sifted
2 teaspoons golden syrup (or light corn syrup)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon McCormick Pumpkin Pie spice
1/4 cup (60ml) canned pumpkin puree
1/2 teaspoon McCormick Vanilla extract
1/4 cup (60ml) hot water

To make the batter, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and pie spice and set aside.  In a second small bowl, combine the pumpkin puree and sour cream and set aside.

In the bowl of your mixer with the paddle attachment, blend the shortening with the sugar until sandy. Add the egg yolks and continue to mix for one more minute on medium speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Add 1/3rd of the flour mixture to the sugar, beating on low speed. Add half of the pumpkin mixture beating until just combined, scraping down the bowl with each addition. Add another third of the flour, mix and then the remaining pumpkin. Finally, mix in the remaining flour. Take care not to over mix. Too much mixing means too much gluten and that means tough cake donuts.

The dough will be sticky, resembling cookie dough.


Transfer the dough to a clean bowl and cover. Refrigerate for at least 45 minutes until chilled, or up to overnight.  While waiting, prep your glaze by combining all the ingredients until smooth in your mixer. If glaze seems overly thick, add up to an additional tablespoon of hot water until it reaches the right consistency. 

When the dough has chilled, dust an area of counter top with cake flour and prepare to roll out your dough. With flour dusted hands, transfer the dough to your counter top and roll to 1/2" thick. Cut out your donuts (I'm using a 3 1/2" Ateco donut cutter), dipping the cutter in flour after each cut. Combine the scraps and roll and cut again.

In a small pan, heat 2" of oil to 325°F, monitoring the temperature with a candy or deep frying thermometer both before and between batches.

When hot, dust any excess flour from your donuts and carefully add them to the oil. Frying one or two donuts at a time. Once the donuts float to the surface, allow them to cook for 15 seconds before flipping them. Cook for 75 to 90 seconds until golden brown and cracked and then flip again, frying the first side for an additional 60 to 75 seconds.

(Trick: If your donuts are cracking in random ways that you find unbecoming, you can score the donut  with a sharp knife before frying, much like you would score a loaf of bread. This will guide the cracking.)

Drain the donuts on a layer of paper towels and while hot, completely dip each into the pumpkin glaze. (If glaze has thickened, warm for a few seconds in the microwave). Allow the donut to dry on a cooling rack until the glaze is set.


To store, lightly cover and keep for up to 36 hours in a cool spot.

Enjoy!

To win the McCormick giveaway: U.S. residents simply post your favorite donut along with an emoticon that illustrates how you feel when eating them in the comments below. I'll pick my favorite next friday and send the box on its way. 



121 comments:

  1. This isn't an entry, but my chain of reactions upon reading this post:

    -PUMPKIN DESSERT! :D
    -Mmm and I love doughnuts, how delightful :] -Wait...currently studying abroad in a country that doesn't fully appreciate the pumpkin dessert... :/
    -Entirely unfair. Mrs. Humble made this post just to tempt me into flying back to the U.S. to buy canned pumpkin >:(
    -...I wish I had a pumpkin doughnut :(

    Sort of like the five stages of grief, but with sweets. :P

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  2. My favorite would have to be a lemon frosted donut, bonus points if the donut itself is lemon much like your pumpkin donuts. When I eat these, my expression can be seen as this.

    :I

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  3. My favorite donut is the bavarian cream-filled kind, especially the ones they make at Marsh Supermarket (Indiana). So good. Me eating them:

    o--^c^--o
    #

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  4. Old Fashioned Donuts with simple glaze.

    *<|:-)

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  5. I to an an old fashioned fan, either the original or chocolate glazed, so I am eager to try this pumpkin option! My donut-emoticon, or donuticon, is this :D (rather unfortunately, actually. Far too many donuts can get in my mouth that way...)

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  6. I just got the cookbook! And this is the one that must be made asap.
    ohhh those look so good.

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  7. I love Old Fashioned donuts. It's too bad that no one around where I live makes them -- I find that if I make a batch, I eat most of them myself. Which is not really a Good Thing.

    The cider mill the next town over makes the next best thing -- dense but crumbly lightly spiced cake donuts dredged in cinnamon sugar (not powdered sugar!) :-} mmmmm

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  8. My favorite donut, like yours, is an old fashioned with a simple vanilla glaze. This is how I feel when I eat them:

    ^0^

    I cannot wait to try this recipe as I have been looking for an excuse to make both donuts and something pumpkin-y. Thanks!

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  9. My favorite donut has to plain yeast donuts with glaze! Plain and ooohhh so good!

    :P

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  10. I love old-fashioned doughnuts too! Or a good buttermilk bar....or an apple or raspberry fritter. I'm actually not all that picky when it comes to doughnuts. :P

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  11. I love the glazed cream filled ones with chocolate topping. Mmmmmm
    8-P

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  12. I think my favorite one is the Boston Cream ones but let's be honest . . . I haven't met a doughnut I haven't liked! And is there an emoticon that describes sheer joy followed by licking my lips and fingers? 8-D

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  13. I'm still waiting for Audi to offer to send me a TT, I swear, I'd drive it all the time and be such a good advertisement for them!

    My favorite type of donut is an apple fritter, had one this morning with my hot apple cider (hello fall!) I was very pleased with myself... then wanted a nap! ~_~ <Zzzzzz... Donut coma!

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  14. I really want to eat these. My favorite is a day-old cake doughnut with a chocolate glaze. I know...cake doughnuts already taste stale, but there ya go.
    ;-*

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  15. OMG, I love old fashioned donuts, too - especially chocolate ones! But these pumpkin ones look sooo good. Can't wait to try them - thanks!

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  16. I enjoy cider donuts most =^_^=

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  17. I like old fashioned glazed donuts.
    <('_'<) <('_')> (>'_')>

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  18. My fav is a cinnamon roll yeast donut with chocolate frosting and chopped nuts. It makes me feel like a <(•(oo)•)> piggy cause I can't resist them!

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  19. I love the old fashioned as well but it's hard to pass up a well made glazed donut. Yum :D

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  20. I love chocolate cake donuts! :D

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  21. I like glazed donuts. Lick the sugary icing off first, then the cakey part last.... Mmmm. :P

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  22. I will eat all donuts except those with fruit or vegetables (sorry, pumpkin, I just can't eat you). Old fashioned glazed or boston creme are my top choices. :O <---donut eating face.

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  23. I can't seem to get enough pumpkin this time of year. I've been making pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting a lot... time to use the puree for some donuts instead!

    My favorite donuts are chocolate cake donuts dipped in chocolate with toasted coconut on top YUM!

    8^{D I usually earn a chocolate mustache upon stuffing these donuts in my mouth followed by cartoon-like eye popping.

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  24. Jelly donuts

    :) 0

    That's me with my donut two inches from my face.

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  25. Boston Creme is my favorite which makes sense because I live in the area. (O) That's my emoticon because it's as close as I can get to an emoticon that looks like a donut. A nibbled donut. ;)

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  26. My favorite doughnut? Definitely the peanut butter and jelly doughnut at the Doughnut Plant in New York City.
    This is me drooling while eating it:
    (*¬*)

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  27. I lurrrve apple cider donuts.

    (b'-')b

    *nomnomnom* Two thumbs up.

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  28. This is me licking my lips after eating my very favorite doughnut, an apple fritter. I have loved them since I was a little girl. :^9

    Can't wait to try these pumpkin donuts!

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  29. Honey-Glazed donuts--at the end, your fingers are delightfully,sinfully sticky.:P

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  30. old fashioned donuts are by far my favorite! I had no idea how to make them before, but you've made it look so simple that I've got to try it. yum! :D

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  31. WW
    o o
    (
    O

    That's me with my hair standing straight up and my mouth open in wondrous delight whenever I get to eat my favorite chocolate glazed cake donuts! Yum!

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  32. I love Glazed Old-fashioned doughnuts like you, a close tie is a buttermilk bar, and behind that an toasty dark apple fritter. *\o/* This is me, cheering at the sight of a pumpkin old fashioned doughnut.

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  33. Previously I would have said my favorite donut was a chocolate old fashioned. But hello pumpkin! Changing my answer to pumpkin old fashioned with chocolate glaze. Don't mind the drool...

    ^ ^
    O,
    ,
    ,

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  34. Any donut with icing and sprinkles.

    : P

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  35. I am a sucker for an apple fritter! There is a small place by where I live that makes the best fritters! My husband always accompanies me there because they have a maple bar with a slice a bacon on top! Both donuts are delish!!!!

    :)

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  36. patisserie valerie creme donuts.
    ^______^

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  37. Glazed donut holes for sure!
    *
    < ~ >
    *

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  38. My favorite donut has always been maple glaze ... but I'm betting once I make these pumpkin donuts this week, I'll have a new favorite. Yum.. Consider me entered! Thanks, Ms. Humble!

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  39. Oh I love boston cream donuts. The rich custard within a crisp shell, then topped with the chocolate glaze always makes my mouth water.
    It is hard to find a good donut like that. You can find them, but there are so many out there that are not up to par. The custard is minimal, the donut shell small and the glaze tastes like it is canned. I am sure you know what I mean. But, when I find a good one-oh Mama!

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  40. Oops...read the directions. Okay, here's my emoticon for how I feel when I eat the donuts...


    ^..^
    = ŏ = !!

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  41. sour cream donuts, just like these!

    :-D))

    (that's a double-chinned smiley because i feel, well, fat and happy)

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  42. My favorite doughnut is the apple cider doughnut they sell at the Lewisburg Cider Mill in Lewisburg, KS. I've gone to the cider mill nearly every time I've gone to visit my relatives in a nearby town, practically since I was born, and it's one of my very favorite things to do on those visits. I am, however, mildly allergic to apples, so I can't eat very many of the doughnuts. I absolutely love them though! First they make me feel like this:

    o_O

    because they put me into this little coma of apple doughnutty happiness. Then I feel like this:

    :D

    ... majorly content with the world. Eat too many though, and I feel like this:

    :#

    Stupid apple allergy! Granted, I probably shouldn't eat more than two doughnuts anyway... But, they're good enough I'm willing to risk a massive stomachache and severe intestinal distress and I KEEP GOING BACK. Yum!

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  43. I love old-fashioneds and cider donuts. I'm technically not supposed to have them - but maybe I could make an exception for a pumpkin one. I mean, pumpkin is healthy, isn't it?
    My usual donut eating face?
    :1
    It's my secret-donut-eating smile!

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  44. My favorite doughnut is the apple fritter, done right, which is to say huge and with actual chunks of apple suspended in a cinnamon-y, moist and sugar-glazed dough.

    :O Mouth open wide, to facilitate maximal fritter consumption

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  45. Oh Ms. Humble, you have no idea how much you just hit this one out of the park. When I was a (chubby) kid, my older brother referred to me as a "doughnasaurus". That's how much I love donuts. Combine doughnuts with my other fall favorite, pumpkin, and I can't wait to make pumpkin old fashioned donuts with my 5/6th can.

    My favorite donuts come from the world's seediest bakery, Spiffy's Bakery, in Napavine, WA. (Wait, where?) I love their buttermilk bars and maple bars, usually still hot out of the oil. And that's saying a lot since I've had Round Rock donuts, from Round Rock, Texas.

    ,
    (^_^) (Happy Pumpkin)

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  46. My favorite is the glazed donut!! OMG those are heavenly!! I am on a low-carb diet.. and looking at these pumpkin donuts just hurts too bad! :(
    My favorite donut makes my mouth water and on every bite I am only craving more.. umm..mmmmm... :)
    Oh wow, just the memory of it makes me want to drive out at this moment and get one!

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  47. I am obsessed with donuts and can rarely find a good shop that sells good ones anymore. Everyone in my office always gets Krispy Kreme...yuck! I hate those, they are too sugary for me. My favorite donut is a basic cake donut with chocolate frosting :D

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  48. Up until today my favorite donut was a Dunkin Donuts Boston Creme donut. I live in Texas so DD aren't as numerous as they are in my home state of Rhode Island, so when I do happen upon a Boston Creme, it feels like a taste of home. :)

    Yeah, that all changed today with your recipe for the pumpkin old fashioned. That has immediately become my new favorite!

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  49. Raspberry filled! Oh, I think I need to make these and go on a donut run! :D

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  50. I'm a straight up glazed doughnut girl.

    *\O/*

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  51. Sour Cream Doughnuts are the bane of my existence, how on earth am I supposed to maintain my girlish figure while I have a gigantic mouthful of sour cream doughnuts ... This is me ... :p~~~ drooling. This is me after my 6th sour cream doughnut X-\ (cuz I'm sick to my stomach).

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  52. Old fashioned glazed makes me do this ;_; (tears of joy) :D

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  53. Old fashioned no glaze...simple like my fav emoticon.

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  54. Beignets are my favorite donuts!! Simple fried dough with powdered sugar BD <-- That is my cool kid happy face when I eat beignets! AND I can't wait to try the pumpkin doughnuts... my husband will love them :)

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  55. Ohhh my. Pumpkin Old Fashioned-s?! Absolutely glorious and super festive, I can almost smell 'em!

    Hmmm... my favorite donut? Glaze really is the way to a girl's heart, so I'd have to vote for your beloved Old Fashioned :D

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  56. Apple Crisp Donuts made fresh by my local orchard ♥‿♥

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  57. Crullers for me. I glaze them with maple and brown butter.
    :@
    That's me licking the glaze off.

    Not entering, just sharing--I'm north of the border.
    :)

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  58. my favorite donuts are the cinnamon sugar twists at mary lou's donuts. now that i'm a poor college student, i miss all the nice mom and pop places back home in indiana.
    and this is my face after eating a cinnamon donut
    *^_^*

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  59. I used to live a few blocks from a Top Pot, and I worked my way through their entire selection until I found my favorite: glazed chocolate old-fashioned donuts. :-9

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  60. My favorite doughnut is the glazed french crueller. It is a perfect combination of sweet with a firm exterior which yield to a tender buttery interior. The whole thing seems like an impossibility which fortunately exists.
    Happiness.

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  61. Custard Long John!
    ^ ^
    ..
    (||)

    u

    happy miss piggy!

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  62. DONUT HOLES! Perfect glaze to donut ratio for me... and when I eat them I feel :D <3 :D <3!

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  63. Apple cider cake doughnuts with cinnamon sugar all up ONS. I believe that the clouds in heaven are made of these.

    ^(≧∇≦)^

    And this is how I feel when autumn ends and shops stop making their seasonal apple cider doughnuts:

    ლಠ益ಠლ

    Y U NO MAKE NEMOAR DONUTZ??!

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  64. Generally I'd pick raspberry Pączki, but I must say that my favorite all-time doughnut is a straight-up vanilla creme-filled doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts. I don't have one near me and have been craving one for months! Months, I say!

    They make me look like this: ^-^

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  65. I've always loved the plain, regular cake doughnuts--maybe lightly coated in cinnamon sugar, or with a plain white glaze. Something about their texture is so much better to me than yeast doughnuts! I always feel like this when I eat them: <.< >.> <.< (That's looking both ways before I eat the last one!)

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  66. Top Pots pink lady or as they call it " feather boa "
    ;)

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  67. I loovee the Boston creme filled donuts! 8D.. *drool*

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  68. Chocolate, chocolate and chocolate. Chocolate glaze, chocolate middle, chocolate sprinkles... Any combination of the above = >:)

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  69. My favorite donuts would have to be the freshly fried with a sprinkle of sugar :)

    O_O

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  70. My favorite donuts ever are the mini kind that are freshly fried and rolled in cinnamon-sugar.
    Makes me remember spending time on the military base in the fall with my mom :)

    Yay Fall!

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  71. Mmmm...pumpkin donuts...
    My favorite are glazed chocolate cake donuts 8-) Yes please!

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  72. That pink raspberry doughnuts at the doughnut plant in NYC. :P Now that we don't live there anymore, the dunford doughnuts (chocolate covered chocolate cake) 8)

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  73. Entenmann's Chocolate Frosted. There are far tastier donuts out there, but those are a childhood favorite. Something about that lovely dark chocolate coating...

    :-9

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  74. Until recently I would have said that Entenmann's chocolate donettes were my favorite, as I had very fond memories of them from my childhood. BUT, I recently bought some as a "treat", only to discover that they actually do taste like PLASTIC!

    So my real favorite donut would have to be apple cider donuts, that I only seem to find at farmer's markets in the fall. I would love to see a recipe on this blog for them even though they don't have pumpkin in them.

    And for my emoticon, it represents how I feel the day after eating my donut!

    ~@~

    (try it in gchat and you'll get it)

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  75. I love a good, maple, old fashioned donut. I haven't had one in a year and this pumpkin version is making me eager to give it a whirl!

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  76. my all time favorite are blueberry donuts-- every time I eat one you can see me licking my lips after :-9

    Of course, my favorite seasonal donuts are pumpkin! no contest there.

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  77. i love cherry donuts made this way. i might make yours tomorrow!

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  78. I'm not a huge donut fan, but around this time of year, I love the pumpkin spice donuts with cream cheese frosting.
    They make me want to dance! (づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ
    Yours look realllly yummy too...

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  79. Chocolate old-fashioned with a chocolate glaze and rainbow jimmies (yes, jimmies, not sprinkles!).
    They make me break my diet and go all :&)

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  80. Pączki, they only come out once a year on Fat Tuesday and I have to stop myself from ordering a dozen and eating them over the next dozen days. They make me ^_^ when I eat them.

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  81. Thomas Kellers. I helped make them for a wedding just before you posted about them and they were delicious!

    and I have a :( face afterwards because I still haven't mastered the art of moderation. But it is so worth it!

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  82. Love a good cake donut with the right amount of cinnamon-sugar topping.... 8-D
    Super Yumm!

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  83. My favorite donut, by far, is the maple bar.

    They make me feel like a kid again and each bite is indescribable :-9. They simultaneously immerse me in a calming blissfulness ^_^ and make me insanely giddy, like a kid in a candy store *\o/*.

    They are one of the things I miss most about living in Seattle - I moved to Boston 4 years ago and haven't had a decent maple bar since. For some reason New England, the land of maple syrup and Dunkin' Donuts, doesn't make maple bars. I've been dying to get the new cookbook just for their maple bar recipe! If you have a chance to try it I'd love to see a post on it!

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  84. My *favorite* donut is the one my sister and I would fight over when we went to the old-fashioned donut shop with my grandmother when we were very young. Seemed like there was only ever one pink frosted donut with sprinkles, and we both wanted it. It was all or nothing, too. No cutting in half or sharing bites!


    me---> o/*\o <---sister

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  85. Totally an old-fashioned doughnut lover here! I feel like I've been dipped in do-no (as ny daughter calls them!) glaze when I eat them. Is that wrong?

    Oh, well...chomp, chomp!

    = x

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  86. I love a yummy cake donut with toasted coconut on the outside. :]

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  87. I love Krispy Kreme glazed donuts. Not that I don't like others, these just do something special to me :)

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  88. Boston cream donuts...or pretty anything custard filled :D

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  89. Glazed from the local Ken's grocery. |)

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  90. I moved to the East coast to get away from an emotionally/sexually abusive ex in Seattle/having to give up my son for adoption. I was really lonely, depressed, and confused when I got here; everything was foreign, and I didn't have a single friend. One of the most surprising things about the East coast is that most people don't know what a maple bar is, even though they are very common on the east coast. My Aunt, knowing how troubled I was, sent me an amazing recipe for homemade maple bars. And even though I was in a strange place, the warm, comforting familiarity of a fresh melting maple bar in my mouth gave me hope and determination to not let my past define my future. Now I've settled down in a promising job, found a man who treats me with love and respect, and I'm applying to graduate school next fall. My emoticon would be ((((^.^)))))
    because eating a warm maple bar feels like getting five hugs at once.

    Here's the recipe, if anyone is interested:
    http://matronofhusbandry.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/homemade-maple-bars/

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  91. Wow I have been thinking about buy the Top Pot cookbook and this recipe has me convinced! My favorite doughnut is the Top Pot Original Old Fashioned-- I love it so much I will eat the Starbucks ones even though I know they are shipped in! Next time im in Seattle eating a Top Pot doughnut my face will be :(doughnut) as in i will be shoving a doughnut in my mouth!

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  92. Favorite donut would be Krispy Kreme Cream filled. MMmmm.... ^_^

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  93. My favorite would probably be a sour cream old fashioned but those pumpkin ones may just give it a run for it's money. Honestly though I love just about any doughnut. ( °٢° ) This is me with my face stuffed full of doughnut and drooling a bit.

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  94. My favorite donut are the pumpkin donuts - I absoultely LOVE pumpkin spice (I use it to make lattes ALL the time) Pumpkin reminds me of the falls from my childhood... And I feel like this when I eat them :'p

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  95. Oh, your pumpkin donuts look yummy! I used to make drop donut balls that were great. I'll have to try them again.

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  96. My absolute *favorite* doughnuts are maple bacon crunchy old fashioned doughnuts (vanilla/bacon doughnut with maple glaze garnished with bacon crumbles). I love it when I take a bite and the sweet and salty mix hits my tongue creating that perfect taste combination and the outside is sticky from the glaze, but crunches when I bite it and is soft and moist on the inside when I chew. Oh em gee. I just started drooling! Eating them makes me feel all nom, nom, nommy!

    ‡@≈

    BTW, your pumpkin doughnuts look absolutely divine!

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  97. My favorite is Top Pot's Bavarian Cream. My husband and I can put away a dozen of them in 2 days. You can almost feel the diabetes setting in.
    ;-D

    http://bitter-party-of-one.blogspot.com/

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  98. My favorite...blueberry cake wins by a long shot. =o] Although Krispy Kreme original gets me going, too! As for my happy face that says I'm eating something awesomely amazing it would have to be: :O,,, See what I did there? I'm drooling.

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  99. Oh my favorite has to be a warm donut, do care what kind as long as it's warm, like when you go to Krispy Kreme and get a fresh one off the rack. And it makes me <3

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  100. Apple cider donuts fresh from the fryer and newly coated in cinnamon sugar....mmmm. |D (eyes closed in ecstasy while nomming)

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  101. There's a local Amish family that makes amazing donuts, but alas, they have not been at the farmers' market lately. So, I've been settling for Tim Horton's cider donuts (the bonus of living so close to Canada). Still, just thinking about the Amish donuts... :-9 (me licking my lips in happy remembrance)

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  102. Glazed chocolate cake doughnuts - just the regular powdered sugar icing glaze, not the chocolate one. Just to clarify :D

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  103. My favorite are actually cake donuts!! Usually just the plain, glazed ones. I've never had a pumpkin cake donut, but they definitely make me :-)!!

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  104. Cake doughnuts are my favorite kind of doughnuts, and these pumpkin cake ones sound fantastic! If only I didn't have a deep seated fear of frying!

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  105. We called them Triple Threats. Chocolate cake donut with chocolate frosting with chocolate sprinkles. I used to get them as a treat sometimes for waking up so early after we'd drop my brother off at his high school (45 minutes away from our house) and before my mom dropped me off at school (which was only 5 minutes away from our house). I'm a chocoholic for sure, but I think they're still my favorite because of the memories of the morning drives with my mom.

    {B :o)

    {B is the best representation of my late 80's/early 90s bangs. Half of the bangs curled backwards, teased and sprayed in place, bottom half curled under. It was pretty stylish for a second grader at the time! (The perm going on behind it definitely completed the look.)

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  106. I love that they're cracked! They look so perfect!

    My favorite doughnuts are kinda lame.. Apple fritters. They make me feel like :3

    It's a simple reaction, but... That's how I like it!

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  107. My favorite kind of donut is probably a glazed cruller, or as they are called around here in rural Nebraska,"tractor tire donuts" (.)_(.) <- my expression when I see donuts I love. I seem to shut down momentarily when I see something I really want to eat.

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  108. This was my first try making donuts, and I just finished making them!

    I didn't have a candy thermometer or anything like that so I had to guess at it, slowly adjusting each time I made a donut.

    At first it wasn't hot enough...
    then it was too hot and my donuts came out pretty dark brown.

    I tried one of my browned donuts dipped and everything and I found they taste just as delicious as the ones that weren't as brown!

    Mine certainly don't look like the pictures, and it is pretty obvious that they were much more browned than the ones in the post, but they get an A+ in my book!

    In retrospect, I should have used a bigger pan because I kept spilling oil on the stove and now the whole bottom story of my house is filled with smoke. Oopsies :p
    My mom isn't too happy about that...


    I can't wait to eat some tomorrow morning ^-^
    Thanks for the recipe

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  109. I recently discovered that I have celiac disease, so I'm off to start experimenting with gluten-free doughnuts. I'm going to describe and emote as if this change hadn't occurred yet:

    My favorites fell into two categories- tasty quality doughnuts and my shameful secret guilty pleasure doughnuts.

    Of the quality, my favorite are fritters. They tend to be not as sweet, with a little bit of crunch. Apple are the best, because that little bite of fruit is a great texture.

    Omnomnom *_* Nomnomnom...

    Recently I was reacquainted with a guilty pleasure of mine from childhood: powdered sugar donettes. This was the way my mother coaxed me back to appetite after a bad flu. When my daughter got sick this week, mom brought them over to perk her up.

    Now, I had batches of homemade cake in the house last week. Sour cream chocolate with buttercream icing, southern bourbon poundcake, brownies. (Okay, they were all shaped like a train, for her third birthday party, but they looked AWESOME) All that delicious gluten in my house and I didn't bat an eye. One bag of gas-station donettes are on my counter and I'm climbing the walls not to eat them. But if I did, it would look like this... (The O's are donettes, the periods are crumbs, I am awash in a sea of each)

    0.00.000.0
    0.000..000
    .00.:D.0.0
    00.00..0.0

    And that is my shameful confession of the morning.

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  110. These look delicious! I need to try to make my own donuts one of these days...

    My favorite donut has to be Tim Horton's honey crullers. I live in Texas, which unfortunately has no Tim Horton's anywhere near it. When my family was on vacation in Toronto, we decided to try them. And they are HEAVENLY. So light and sweet and full of air. Om nom nom. Luckily for me, my boyfriend lives in Michigan, so I now have access to the yummy crullers every time I go to see him. It's a must-eat whenever I'm in range!

    :3 is my expression - they give me the delicious warm fuzzies.

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  111. My favorite donut is a vanilla cake donut with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles...aka a Princess Donut. My Daddy would take me to Dunkin' Donuts practically every Saturday when I was a wee girl and I'd always get that donut.

    xo<3 :) is my emotions after eating cause I feel like I've been kissed, hugged and thoroughly loved

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  112. My favorite doughnut is the ones filled with Bavarian cream, with a maple topping. If you've been down in Portland, the Voodoo Doughnut place has great ones. My expression while eating them
    *(^o^)*

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  113. Closing the drawing for the box as of now.

    I will post the winner either monday or tomorrow, depending on when I wrap up my work for the next post. I've got a great treat for caramel lovers...

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  114. This looks so yummy. Spiced pumpkin gives the warm feeling (not temperature wise) and its perfect for fall. I made pumpkin cream cheese macaron for my family and they absolutely loved it.

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  115. Hi. What do I need to do to claim my prize? Thanks! I shall have a doughnut to celebrate.

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  116. Post your email here or send me one to notsohumblepieblog@gmail.com and we'll get things rolling :)

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  117. Oh boy, these look mighty tasty and could give my usual favorite (oldfashioned buttermilk donuts) a run for their money!

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