Vegan Pumpkin Donuts with Cream Cheese Frosting
These baked vegan pumpkin donuts are the perfect holiday treat! They're cakey, moist, and topped with vegan cream cheese icing! Everyone is going to love these and no one will believe you when you tell them they're vegan, gluten free (optional), and baked, not fried!
Ingredients
Vegan Pumpkin Donuts
- 1 cup unsweetened almond or oat milk
- ¾ cup pumpkin puree
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup coconut sugar or regular cane sugar
- â…“ cup melted vegan butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 cup regular or gluten free all purpose flour
Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 tablespoon softened vegan butter
- 4 oz vegan cream cheese
- 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
Instructions
Vegan Pumpkin Donuts
- Preheat the oven to 350
- In a large mixing bowl, mix the oat or almond milk, pumpkin puree, maple syrup, sugar, butter, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg until well combined. Then, add the flour and mix until a batter forms. Pour the batter into 18 silicon donut molds.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until the donuts are risen, completely cooked through, and lift easily out of the pan.
- While the donuts are baking, mix the vegan cream cheese icing ingredients. Add more powdered sugar to make the icing thicker. Wait for the donuts to cool before icing OR ice them while they're warm to create a "glaze effect"
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 211kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 2gFat: 8g
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Libby Scott says
Can I use coconut flour instead of the all purpose flour, and if so, do I need to adjust the amount?
JillianGlenn says
Hi Libby, you will need to use regular or gluten free all purpose flour in this recipe!
Jamila says
How did u make ur pumpkin puree and what should the consistency look like?
Jillian says
Hi Jamila, I used canned 🙂
Kim says
Could I make cupcakes from this recipe or put it in a 8x8 pan?
I don’t have a donut pan
Thank u!
Jillian says
Hi Kim, absolutely! These would be delicious in cupcake form 🙂
JC says
I just purchased a bag of Bob’s Redmill gluten free flour and I see you don’t recommend it. Have you tried making it with Bob’s? I hate to have to go through the bother of returning it !
Jillian says
Hi JC, The Bob's Red Mill 1-1 baking flour is not ideal for this recipe. I'm sorry!
Kelly says
Can’t wait to try! My son is allergic to nuts and dairy. Any other milk you recommend for this recipe?
Jillian says
Hi Kelly! I am so excited to hear how you like these donuts! Oat milk is a great swap for almond milk in this recipe 🙂
melissa says
what brand of vegan cream cheese did you use?
Jillian says
Miyokos is my favorite!