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Pumpkin Doughnuts With Marshmallow and Graham Cracker Glaze

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Pumpkin Doughnuts

As you may know by now, Thanksgiving and Chanukkah fall on the same day this year.  I don’t usually love fads, but this fusion holiday is too much fun to ignore.  To bring both holidays together into one dessert, I used two traditional desserts from each holiday and combined them into one.  I transformed the classic pumpkin pie with marshmallow topping and graham cracker crust from Thanksgiving fame into a doughnut which is the most famous Chanukkah treat.  I present to you a pumpkin doughnut topped with a marshmallow glaze and graham cracker crumbs.  The doughnuts have pure pumpkin puree in them giving them a beautiful orange color, as well as loads of pumpkin pie spice to lend that perfect autumnal spice.  And as my husband said, while devouring one of these babies “you can’t go wrong with marshmallow topping”!

The doughnut recipe was adapted from Bakeaholic Mama.  Here’s my non-dairy recipe.

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Pumpkin Doughnuts With Marshmallow and Graham Cracker Topping
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Serves: 18 doughnuts
 
Ingredients
Pumpkin Dough
  • ¼ cup warm water
  • 1 pkg. yeast (2¼ tsp.)
  • 2 Tbs. maple syrup
  • 4 cups flour
  • ⅓ cup soy milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1 Tbs. oil
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1½ tsp. salt
  • 1½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice
Marshmallow Graham Cracker Glaze
  • 2 cup marshmallow cream (I use Marshmallow Fluff)
  • 1 Tsp. shortening
  • graham cracker crumbs
Instructions
Pumpkin Doughnut
  1. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, add warm water, yeast and maple syrup. Stir and allow to proof for 5-10 minutes.
  2. Once the yeast has bubbled, layer all the other ingredients on top starting with the flour, then soy milk, egg, pumpkin, oil, sugar, salt, and pumpkin pie spice.
  3. Turn the mixer on low and mix until the dough starts to come together, 3-5 minutes.
  4. Turn off the mixer and allow the dough to rest for 10 minutes.
  5. Turn the mixer back on low and knead the dough for another 10 minutes. It might be slightly sticky but should be smooth.
  6. Turn the dough out into a lightly greased bowl, cover with kitchen towel, and allow to rise in a warm place for about an hour.
  7. Once the dough has risen, cut in half to make it easier to use.
  8. Roll out half the dough to about ½ inch thickness. Use a round cutter about 2¾ inches in diameter and cut out six doughnuts. Cut the centers out with a smaller circle cutter about 1¼ inches in diameter. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, cover with kitchen towel and allow to rise for about 30 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough. You can ball up the scraps and cut out another 6 doughnuts, but don't go beyond there, your doughnuts will be tough. You may reserve the doughnut holes and fry them as well.
  9. While the doughnuts rise, prepare the oil for frying. Heat up a deep fryer or fill a heavy bottomed pot with about 2 inches of oil. Using a candy thermometer, heat the oil on medium heat until the temperature reaches between 350 and 375 degrees F.
  10. Once the oil reaches the proper temperature, fry 2 doughnuts at a time for about 45 seconds on each side. The doughnuts will start to brown. Once lightly browned on each side, transfer to a paper towel lined baking sheet and allow to cool.
Marshmallow Glaze
  1. In a small pot or in a double boiler, melt the marshmallow cream with the shortening. Dip the top of each doughnut into the marshmallow, allow the excess to drip off and immediately sprinkle with the graham cracker crumbs.

Honey Whoopie Pies {recipe}

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Honey Whoopie PiesAround this time every year, there are tons of honey desserts floating around.  Two years ago I shared a recipe for chewy sugar encrusted honey cookies.  Last year I shared a recipe for a rolled honey sugar cookie.  They are very different recipes with completely different textures and flavors, but both delicious and sure to put you in the high holiday spirit.  This year I was not planning to share a new honey recipe, I wasn’t feeling inspired.  My sister in law asked me what new and exciting dessert recipe I would share for Rosh Hashana.  I already shared an apple pie bundt cake and was content with that.  But after visiting with her and her new baby girl, I got the idea for these honey whoopie pies.  She and my brother in law love my traditional whoopie pies, so why not make a honey version.  I searched for a recipe and came up empty, so I made my own.  The original recipe is for old German honey cookies that I found on allrecipes.com.  I adapted the cookie recipe, then sandwiched the cookies with my favorite marshmallow filling.  Perfection and a happy dance followed! Happy Holidays!

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Honey Whoopie Pies
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Serves: 3½ dozen
 
Ingredients
Honey Cookies
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup honey
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. fresh grated nutmeg
  • 4 cups flour
Marshmallow Filling
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 cups confectioners sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cup marshmallow cream (such as Marshmallow Fluff)
Instructions
Cookies
  1. In a medium sized saucepan, heat shortening, sugar, and honey until melted. Allow to cool.
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  3. Line some cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
  4. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the eggs, vanilla, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
  5. Add in the cooled honey mixture and mix on low until combined.
  6. Add in the flour and mix until combined.
  7. Using a teaspoon or small cookie scoop, scoop mounds of dough evenly spaced on the parchment lined cookie sheet. Leave enough space for the cookies to spread.
  8. Bake for about 7 minutes until the edges are just barely golden brown. They will still look under baked, but allow them to cool on the pan before transferring. They will finish baking out of the oven and lose the puffiness. Do not over bake or they will be hard.
  9. While the cookies cool, prepare the filling.
Marshmallow Filling
  1. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the shortening and sugar until smooth.
  2. Mix in the vanilla.
  3. Add in the marshmallow cream and mix until combined.
  4. Using a piping bag, cookie scoop, or a knife, fill one side of cookie with filling and sandwich another cookie on top.

Football Whoopie Pies {Recipe}

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Football Whoopie Pies

It’s Super Bowl Sunday!  To celebrate, I wanted to make a cute and simple dessert that anyone can try to recreate at home.  Last year I shared some pretty detailed iced sugar cookies because the New York Giants were in the Super Bowl.  I felt like I needed to do my part as a New Yorker and celebrate my hometown team.  This year, I just want to celebrate a fun football Sunday with friends.  So I’m bringing these football shaped whoopie pies for dessert.

Stack of Football Whoopie Pies

These football shaped whoopie pies are super cute and really easy to make.  I mixed up my delicious and non-dairy recipe for whoopie pies.  Instead of using my small cookie scoop to make the cookies round, I piped them into football shapes.

How to Stencil and Pipe Football Shapes I used my football cookie cutter as a guide and traced the cutter onto parchment paper.  Then I placed that stencil under a clean piece of parchment paper and piped the batter into football shapes.  You can also print out your football shape if you don’t have a football cookie cutter.  If you are bad at piping or don’t have the proper tools, you can also spread the batter into cute little footballs.

Football Whoopie Pies with Marshmallow Filling

Since this batter puffs and spreads a little while baking, they come out better if they are spread on the thinner side.  Once the footballs are piped (or spread) and baked, I filled them with marshmallow cream filling.

Football Laces Piped on Whoopie Pies

Then I used some white royal icing to pipe the laces on the footballs.  You can also use the same marshmallow filling for the decorations but I like using royal icing because it dries hard and won’t smudge.  Here’s the printable dairy-free recipe.  Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

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Whoopie Pies
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Serves: 2-4 dozen
 
Ingredients
Cookies
  • ⅔ cup dutch process cocoa powder
  • ¾ cup hot water
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ cup non-dairy sour cream (such as Tofutti Brand)
  • 1⅓ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup margarine
  • ¼ cup shortening
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • ¾ tsp salt
Marshmallow Filling
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 cups confectioners sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cup marshmallow cream (such as Marshmallow Fluff)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Make sure to use a new piece or parchment paper for each batch because some crumbs will stick to the paper.
Cookies
  1. In a small bowl whisk the cocoa powder with the hot water until dissolved.
  2. Stir in the baking soda and sour cream and set aside.
  3. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the brown sugar with the margarine and shortening until light and fluffy.
  4. Add in the egg and vanilla and beat until combined.
  5. Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt and beat on low speed for a few seconds.
  6. Pour the cocoa mixture into the mixer and mix until smooth and combined.
  7. Pipe the batter into shapes or scoop batter into small round mounds using a small cookie scoop.
  8. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the cookies are set and spring back to the touch.
  9. While the cookies are cooling, make the filling.
Marshmallow Filling
  1. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the shortening and sugar until smooth.
  2. Mix in the vanilla.
  3. Add in the marshmallow cream and mix until combined.
  4. Using a piping bag, cookie scoop, or a knife, fill one side of cookie with filling and sandwich another cookie on top.
  5. To make them look like footballs, pipe the laces using some royal icing or some marshmallow filling in a pastry bag fitted with a very small straight piping tip. I used a #2 PME brand piping tip.