Paleo Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Donut Holes (grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free option)

I’m new to baking with coconut oil…I am using the solid form, is that 7 tbsp of the solid oil (then melted) or 7 tbsp of the melted oil? Hope that makes sense!

It does make sense! And it’s the same, so you can measure it solid or melted. :) Hope you’ll enjoy the donuts!

I seem to have the same issue as the commenter below-the muffins really stuck to the liners. I’m sure they’ll still be tasty, just not so pretty looking as yours :)

How do you keep the muffins from completely sticking to the muffin liners?

I haven’t had that issue with these (and nobody’s mentioned that yet) so maybe it’s your liners. I have some liners where some recipes stick and some liners where those same recipes don’t stick. Or did you make any subs?

Can I use G.F. All-Purpose flour instead?

GF 1-to-1 flour mixes are only interchangeable with wheat-based recipes and not almond flour + coconut flour recipes. If it’s meant as a sub for AP flour, then your mix should work well in my pumpkin donut holes, which are wheat-based. :)

These cinnamon sugar pumpkin donut holes are paleo, grain-free, gluten-free and dairy-free. Can also be made as regular muffins.

I haven’t been feeling the pumpkin love at all this year. I don’t know what happened but I’m just not excited about it. And it doesn’t help that we don’t have canned pumpkin in Germany. I either have to make homemade pumpkin puree, which I won’t do because moisture content varies too much and I never know how much liquid to drain, or buy imported canned pumpkin from the American section of a department store. For about $4.50 a can. I typically make a recipe several times before posting it and spending $18 on just the pumpkin for one recipe? Eh. I’ll pass.

So for this recipe, I took a short-cut. I adapted my pumpkin spice latte Nutella muffins and made them into the gluten-free pumpkin donut holes that I posted over on My Baking Addiction earlier in the week! I didn’t have to go through my precious cans of pumpkin and y’all get a pumpkin recipe. It’s a win-win for everyone! :)

If you don’t have a mini muffin pan, these can be made as 16 regular muffins and baked for 13-16 minutes. It doesn’t work quite as well in bread form. I tried! It rises nice and high and then kerplunks. It’s pretty sad.

I’ve seen a lot of recipes where you dip the donut holes in butter first before dipping them in the cinnamon sugar, but when I tried this, the donut holes sucked up so much butter and were so wet that I had to use a ton of sugar to get them properly rolled. It tasted amazing so feel free to do that if you don’t mind a ton of extra sugar. :) I’m thinking it’s perhaps a grain-free thing. I never had that issue with whole wheat goodies!

I have two more cans of pumpkin left and am very carefully planning what to do with them! What’s your favorite pumpkin recipe?

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Original article and pictures take http://www.texanerin.com/2015/10/cinnamon-sugar-pumpkin-donut-holes.html site