Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Donuts

This month’s Kosher Connection linkup’s theme is Thanksgivukkah- a mashup of Chanukah and Thanksgiving themed recipes. Of course I went with something super easy. And I made sure it had chocolate.

The simplicity of this recipe lies in the ingredients. There are only two of them, so I don’t even know if this is considered a real recipe.

Basically you open a can of pumpkin and a box of cake mix. Mix them together and bake! That’s all.

The one “inconvenient” part of making this is that I needed to use my hand-mixer. Just remember that when using a mixer you should make sure it’s unplugged or at the very least turned off when you put the beaters in. Can you tell I don’t bake much?

Moving on…

Making donuts is much easier than I thought! I don’t have one of those fancy donut pans, so I improvised with a cookie sheet and aluminum foil:

There are so many ways I could’ve made this recipe, but not surprisingly I chose the chocolate route- in a donut shape for that Chanukah feel.

Here are some Thanksgivukkah variations I thought of:

white cake mix, pumpkin, dried cranberries
spice cake mix and pumpkin in muffin pan with cranberry sauce filling (my Thanksgivukkah take on a jelly donut)

Or, you can play around with it. For this recipe I made donuts, but you can also make Chanukah gelt cookies:

In case you need the “recipe” again, here it is: