The sweetest start to a week? A Bills win!!
Seriously. There’s no better night’s sleep than with a W in the books and a belly full of these apple pumpkin spice donuts. True story.
These apple pumpkin spice donuts are like little pillows of autumn flavor explosion!! A fall hug in bite-size form. Cozy as a cable knit sweater and your favorite blanket scarf. Just add a good book (or Friends) and maybe a cup of coffee for pure weekend bliss.
Growing up, I’d go with my family on the drive to Pumpkinville once the leaves started to change for a full day of corn mazes, pumpkin patches and we’d come home loaded with apple cider and the best apple cider donuts you’ve ever tasted. Upstate New York in the fall is the absolute greatest place on Earth.
0% hypberbole in that last sentence there. 100% fact.
I won’t be in New York until Thanksgiving but hey, if I can’t get those apple cider donuts, I’m just going to have to make ’em myself.
And do it in the easiest possible way, thanks to the magic of IZZE’s Sparkling Apple.
Homemade cake mix + a bottle of IZZE Sparkling Apple = Cake-y donuts bursting with flavor! Apple, ginger, pumpkin spice, brown sugar, all of those fall flavors are packed into these little parties for your tastebuds.
And did I mention these apple pumpkin spice donuts are the ideal vehicle for cream cheese frosting? Arguably the best frosting ever!
Cream cheese + confectioner’s sugar + vanilla is the trifecta of frosting ingredients. Cover anything in cream cheese frosting and I most likely will eat it. Mmm pretzels, brownies.
The back of the spoon.
Don’t you just want to swan dive right into that bowl? Just me?
It’s like I’ve died and gone to heaven to live on a fluffy, sweet perfect cream cheese cloud.
BRB Curling up with the fluffiest blanket and these magical apple pumpkin spice donuts.
It’s better than a PSL.
Yup, I said it.
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
- 1 bottle IZZE Sparkling Apple
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- In a medium bowl, whisk to combine all dry ingredients. Pour in the IZZE Sparkling Apple and stir to thoroughly combine.
- Pour the mixture into the donut pan and bake for 12-15 minutes at 350 degrees.
- Using an electric mixer, whip the cream cheese until fluffy. Add the confectioner's sugar and vanilla extract and continue whipping until combined.
- Top the apple pumpkin spice donuts with cream cheese frosting, garnish with cinnamon and sugar (I used the Trader Joe's Cinnamon Sugar Grinder + I LOVE it).
Happy Monday, guys! GO BILLS!!
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I will definitely need to try these. I have donut pans but have never used them.
Oh man you absolutely need to give these donuts a whirl!! When you’re using donut pans, fill them them about 2/3 of the way to give the donut room to expand as it bakes. Learned that the hard way ; )
Yup, saving this recipe right now to make this weekend. It look so yummy!
xoox, SS
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