Carrot Cake Doughnuts

I absolutely love carrot cake. The spices… the dense, super moist cake crumb…. the cream cheese frosting. It’s probably one of the most flavorful cakes you can make. And although I was sceptical of any dessert with vegetables for the majority of my childhood – I’m now a big carrot cake believer. (Cue the Journey)

So, clearly it was time to make carrot cake doughnuts. Cause that’s what I do with all my favorite kinds of cake.

Now today’s carrot cake doughnuts have all the flavor of your favorite carrot cake recipe, are baked instead of fried, topped with cream cheese glaze, and made without an electric mixer. The whole recipe comes together in way less time than it takes to make a carrot cake – and if you’re like me, you can always a doughnut for breakfast.

Ingredients

• For the Carrot Cake Doughnuts
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour spooned & leveled
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• pinch nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 3/4 cup finely grated carrots
• For the Cream Cheese Glaze
• 4 oz cream cheese softened to room temperature
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1-2 tablespoon cream

Instructions

1. Make the Doughnuts
2. Preheat the oven to 350F degrees and spray a doughnut pan with non-stick cooking spray. You'll end up with 6-8 doughnuts, so you may need to grease 2 pans or make the doughnuts in 2 batches. 
3. In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt. Set aside. Then in a separate medium-sized bowl whisk together the oil, sugar, egg, vanilla and sour cream. 
4. Stir the flour mixture into the oil mixture using a spoon or rubber spatula, then stir in the shredded carrots. Be careful not to over mix the batter. Then spoon the batter into the prepared doughnut pan filling each cavity about two thirds full, or pipe the batter into each cavity using a piping bag or ziploc bag with the bottom corner cut off. You'll end up with 6-8 doughnuts.
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