Baked Cinnamon Banana Bread Donuts
Donuts are delicious and perfect but they are deep fried. However, these cinnamon banana bread donuts are baked and they are still delicious.
Ingredients
For the donuts:
- 1 medium Ripe banana
- 1 medium Egg at room temperature
- 1 & 1/4 cups All-purpose flour sifted
- 1/4 cup Granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp Whole milk at room temperature
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp Fresh or ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Baking soda
- 1/4 tsp Fresh or ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp Almond essence
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/8 tsp Ground allspice
For the cinnamon sugar:
- 2 tbsp Butter melted
- 2 tbsp Granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder
Instructions
Prep:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Grease a donut pan and set aside.
Making the donuts:
- Mash the bananas then whisk in the egg, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, butter and almond essence. Whisk until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, mix the together the flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice , baking powder and baking soda.
- Gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, along with the milk.
- Once the batter is mixed well, pour the batter into a piping bag and pour into the donut pan.
- If you don't have any piping bags, you can spoon the batter into the pan.
Baking the donuts:
- Bake the donuts for 10-12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.
- When they are done baking, remove from the oven and let it cool for 5-7 minutes before removing from the pan. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Making the cinnamon sugar:
- Mix the sugar and the cinnamon powder together.
Coating the donuts:
- Dunk the top of the donuts into the melted butter then into cinnamon sugar. Repeat with the other donuts and enjoy!
Notes
- This recipe requires a donut pan