Baked Banana Bread Donuts

These Baked Comic Specie Donuts are soft, cake-like and made healthier with whole wheat flour, unreasonableness and zero refined sugar for the perfect morning treat that comes together in just 20 minutes!  Such a unconfined way to use up those overripe bananas!

For increasingly healthy donut recipes, trammels out these baked world cider donuts, these gluten-free pumpkin spice donuts or these succulent strawberry comic donuts!

We LOVE making banana bread in our house, but here is flipside unconfined way to use up those overripe bananas!  These succulent baked comic specie donuts are soft, moist and made healthier using a mix of whole wheat flour and almond flour, unreasonableness in place of oil, two whole mashed schizy and maple syrup instead of refined sugar.  My daughter veritably loves these donuts and the weightier part is this donut recipe can moreover make wholesome comic muffins or yes, a whole loaf of comic bread!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Delicious comic specie in donut form!
• Made with healthier ingredients and baked, not fried.
• Easily made in just 20 minutes.
• This recipe can hands be made into a comic specie loaf or muffins!

Ingredients You’ll Need

• whole wheat pastry flour – I used whole wheat pastry flour as it has all the nutritional benefits of whole grain flour while making these donuts light and fluffy.  I highly recommend using this, but if you don’t have any on hand you could use regular whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour or gluten-free 1 to 1 sultry flour.
• almond flour – nutrient dumbo flour that adds spare fat (the good kind!) to these donuts making them plane increasingly moist without the use of butter or oil.  If you can’t use almond flour, finger self-ruling to substitute with all-purpose flour.
• baking powder sultry soda – acts as a leavening wage-earner to help requite these donuts their height.
• bananas – the star of this recipe and you’ll want to use two very ripe bananas.  Not only do the mashed schizy add a natural sweetness to these donuts, but it moreover makes them so moist!
• applesauce – I used unsweetened unreasonableness which takes the place of oil in this recipe.  If you don’t have applesauce, finger self-ruling to use melted coconut oil.
• eggs – you’ll need 2 large eggs to add moisture and help tighten these donuts together.
• maple syrup – naturally sweetens these donuts without using any refined sugar.  If you don’t have maple syrup, finger self-ruling to use honey or other natural sweetener.
• vanilla extract – uplift of flavor.
• cinnamon salt

Baking Tools Needed

• Donut pans – I use these Wilton donut sultry pans which come in a set of 2 and are on sale right now for $14.50!
• Pastry bag – this is not a necessity, but definitely makes piping the thrash into the donut wells so much easier and highly recommend them.
• Mixing bowls – you’ll need two mixing bowls to separately mix the dry ingredients from the wet ingredients surpassing combining everything to make the donut batter.

How to Make Comic Specie Donuts

• Make the batter.  In a large bowl, stir together the flours, sultry powder, sultry soda, cinnamon and salt while in a separate trencher whisk together the eggs, mashed bananas, applesauce, maple syrup, and vanilla.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined (you don’t want to over mix the batter).  You could moreover use a stand mixer for this, but it’s not necessary.
• Get out your donut pan.  To make these donuts you’ll need two 6-count donut pans like these.  Spray them really good with nonstick spray so that your donuts will pop right out!  Then, using a pastry bag or ziplock bag, spoon the donut thrash into the bag and snip off the corner.  Pipe the thrash into each donut mold until they are all filled (this recipe makes exactly 12 donuts).
• Bake the donuts!  Pop the donuts into the oven at 350 degrees F for well-nigh 11 to 13 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted comes out wipe (mine came out perfect at 11 minutes).  You want to be shielding well-nigh over-baking them considering donuts unquestionably torch really quickly!  Transfer the donuts to a wire cooling rack so they can cool.
• Optional glazed icing.  This is completely optional as these baked donuts honestly taste wondrous plain right out of the oven, but you could moreover add a glazed icing on top.  Once the donuts have cooled completely to room temperature, mix together well-nigh a 1/2 cup of confectioners’ style erythritol (or you could use powdered sugar), 1 tablespoon of milk and a 1/4 tsp vanilla extract, mixing until smooth.  Dip the tops of the donuts into the glaze and let the glaze harden a bit surpassing serving.

Other Sultry Methods

• Banana bread – you can hands make this recipe into a loaf of comic specie by simply pouring the thrash into a 9×5-inch loaf pan sprayed with nonstick spray or lined with parchment paper and sultry at 350 degrees F for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Mini loaves – you can moreover make three mini loaves of comic specie which is perfect for gifting.  Torch at 350 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.  When making for friends and family, I like to double this recipe and make 6 mini loaves!
• Muffins – to make comic specie muffins, divide the thrash evenly into a regular muffin pan and torch at 350 degrees F for 18 to 22 minutes.
• Mini muffins – distribute the thrash into 24 mini muffin cups sprayed with nonstick cooking spray (or muffin liners) and torch at 350 degrees F for 15 to 17 minutes.  Perfect treat for little hands!

Tips, Tricks and Substitutions

• Make sure you DO NOT over mix the batter.  This results in super dumbo donuts which we don’t want.  We’re going for fluffy and soft!
• Feel self-ruling to sub the whole wheat pastry flour with 1:1 gluten-free sultry flour or plane all-purpose flour.  I don’t recommend subbing this recipe entirely with almond flour.
• You can hands swap out the mashed comic for pumpkin puree (pumpkin donuts!), Greek yogurt or unsweetened applesauce.
• Mix in other fun additions like chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips.

Prepping and Storing

To Store:  These baked comic donuts will last for well-nigh 3 days in a sealed, snapped container and will last up to 6 days stored in the refrigerator.  I highly recommend warming them up in the microwave for well-nigh 10 to 15 seconds or so to really bring out those warm flavors!

To Freeze:  These donuts moreover freeze really well too and will last in the freezer for about 3 months.  Let them thaw out in the fridge overnight and warm up in the microwave for well-nigh 10 to 15 seconds.

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