Pumpkin Donuts

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup pumpkin
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup shortening, butter, or margarine, softened

In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and baking soda. Add pumpkin, eggs, milk, and shortening, butter, or margarine; beat with an electric mixer on low speed till mixed.

Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a very large star tip with a 1/2-inch opening (can be purchased at any specialty kitchen store and most craft stores. Pipe onto 2 greased baking sheets in 3-inch circles. Bake in a preheated 375 degrees F oven for 10 minutes, or till golden brown. Cool doughnuts on a rack over waxed paper.

Baked donuts??? That's not how Renee and Karla roll, so instead we spooned small amounts of the dough into hot oil and fried them. Then we rolled them in the following mixture:

1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

You will want to make them very small so they cook all of the way through. At first I used a medium cookie scoop, but that was way too big. I ended up doing about a teaspoon of dough for each one by the end.

The original recipe is from here.