Death Warmed over...

I died today. I went to physical therapy and died. Dead, Death warmed over etc. They upped my bike time to 17 minutes, I enjoy the bike, they upped my weights for my leg exercises, I did step-ups, worked on my balance (for those of you that know me...I didn't/don't have any balance at all so anything would be an improvement haha), wall squats that I held for 10 seconds each, the leg press also with upped weight to 60 lbs, AND I did 5 minutes on an elliptical. DEAD!! I also did all of this, after making baked pumpkin doughnut holes this morning for breakfast.

These cake like doughnut holes are awesome. My amazing mother has donated her mini muffin pan to the Rachel Kitchen Tool Usage Fund so I had to make something.


Baked Pumpkin Doughnut Holes

For the Doughnuts:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoons ground cloves
1/3 cup canola oil
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup canned plain pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
1/2 cup milk

For the Coating:
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon


Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Spray no stick mini muffin pan with cooking spray and set aside.

Mix together your dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ground cloves) in a bowl and set aside. (I used ginger in place of the ground cloves because I didn't have that)

put canola oil (I used veggie oil because I didn't have canola) brown sugar, egg, vanilla, pumpkin, and milk in a bowl and mix well.

Add your dry ingredients and mix until just combined.

Divide batter evenly among muffin tin.

bake 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick or knife come out clean.

While they bake melt butter. In a separate bowl mix together sugar cinnamon mixture.

Pull the doughnut holes out of the oven and let cool for 2 minutes. Take them and roll them in the butter, then roll around in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Repeat until all doughnuts are done.

they are best if you eat them warm, or room temperature. These things went like lightening in our house, and as always I gave some away to my pt crew!


Thanks for reading! Enjoy!