Pumpkin Spice Donut Muffins

🧂 Ingredients

• 31/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

  freshly ground if possible!
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/8 tsp ground cloves
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2/3 cup Crisco shortening

  butter can be substituted, however the texture may be altered
• 2 whole large eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk

  may need 1 extra tbsp if batter is too thick
• 1 cup canned pumpkin

  no spices added, and unsweetened
• 16 tbsp butter

  melted
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  
  Add sugar, shortening, to mixing bowl, blend until creamed, and fluffy.
  approximately 3 minutes, taking time to scrape sides of bowl
• 2 Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each.
• 3 Add pumpkin to shortening sugar mixture. Mix until smooth. Batter may look
  broken or curdled at this point, its ok everything will be fine. Make sure to
  scrape down sides of bowl.
• 4 Mix remaining dry ingredients together in a large measuring cup or mixing bowl.
  (flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt,cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, ginger)
• 5 Measure out your buttermilk into a pourable container.
• 6 Next alternate adding the dry ingredients and buttermilk to the pumpkin mixture.
  Add a little flour, then buttermilk, mix, repeat until each is incorporated. Mix
  until all ingredients are incorporated well, but do not over mix.
• 7 Prepare muffin tins by greasing them. I use Pam Baking Spray, spray each tin
  well. Or you can take a little bit of shortening on a paper towel and spread
  around in each tin, being careful to get all the corners. (this is how my mom
  always has done it) I use a standard 2" muffin tin for this recipe.
  
  Fill tins 2/3 full.
• 8 Place muffin donuts in preheated (350) oven for 22 minutes. You can check them
  at 20 minutes by inserting toothpick, if it comes out clean they are done. Mine
  have always needed an extra couple minutes, thus the 22 minute time frame!
  
  While muffin donuts are baking melt butter in a medium sized dish and mix sugar
  and cinnamon in another dish.
  
  As soon as you take these out of the oven, tip them out on to a making sheet. As
  soon as you can handle them start the coating process.
• 9 Coating Process: take muffin and roll it around in butter so it completely coats
  but doesn't soak up too much butter, then dredge butter covered muffin in to the
  cinnamon sugar mixture. set on a cooling rack or a baking sheet. Repeat this
  process until all muffins are coated in butter and sugar.
  
  I try to keep one had for butter, and one hand in the sugar. It is a bit of a
  messy process but so worth it!

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