Baked banana bread donuts studded with cinnamon chips then rolled in a cinnamon sugar coating. Moist and delicious and a fun way to start the day.
Today I’m sharing a fun way I changed up my favorite banana bread recipe. It’s a recipe I’ve adapted over the years from a Cooking Light recipe. It’s fairly low in fat and sugar, but trust me you’ll never miss the extra calories.
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If you dip the donuts in the cinnamon and sugar while they’re steaming hot, you don’t need to dip them in butter to get the cinnamon and sugar to stick. If the cinnamon and sugar isn’t sticking, or if you want a thicker cinnamon and sugar coating, dip the donuts in melted butter and then dip them in the cinnamon and sugar.
Hershey’s makes Cinnamon Chips, I used Merkens mini Cinnamon Baking Chips from Gygi, and King Arthur also sells mini cinnamon chips. Hershey’s Cinnamon Chips are easiest to find this time of year. If you love them like I do, you might want to stock up now. If you can’t find Cinnamon Chips, chocolate chips would be a great substitution.
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Banana Bread Cinnamon Chip Donuts
Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed very ripe banana about 3 small
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup plain low fat yogurt or low fat sour cream
- ¼ cup butter melted
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cinnamon chips
Topping
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325º. Lightly grease two 6 count donut pans with cooking spray or vegetable oil.
- Combine bananas, sugar, yogurt, butter and eggs in a large bowl; beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until well blended. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; Add flour mixture to banana mixture, add cinnamon chips, stirring just until moistened.
- Divide batter evenly into 12 donut cups, filling each about ¾ full. (Use a pastry bag or plastic bag with corner cut out to make filling the cups easier.)
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
- While donuts are baking, in a small bowl combine sugar and cinnamon for topping.
- When donuts are done, cool for a few minutes in the pan, remove from pan and dip donut top in cinnamon sugar mixture. Cool on a wire rack.
More baked donuts recipes you might like:
Coconut Cream Mini Donuts, Barbara Bakes
Baked Lemon Donuts, Barbara Bakes
Baked Chocolate Donuts with Chocolate Glaze, Tracey’s Culinary Adventures
Lemon Cupcake Baked Donuts, Sugar & Spice & All Things Iced
Baked Pumpkin Donut Holes, Two Peas and Their Pod
Baked Nutmeg Donut Recipe with Berry Icing, Vintage Mixer
Lynda
Your baked donuts look fantastic….I could severalof these since banana is one of my favorite baked goods.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
These are gorgeous! Pinned!
Shelby
Barbara, these look and sound amazing! I’m definitely keeping this for future reference. I just hope I can find cinnamon chips…would love to use them, but haven’t seen them around in a while!
Claire @ Claire K Creations
Oh my goodness I can almost taste these through the screen! I’m yet to find cinnamon chips in Aus but when I do I’ll be making these!
Valérie (Franche-Comté)
Ils sont absolument généreux et gourmands
Belle soirée Barbara
Valérie.
Susan
I keep saying I’m not going to buy any more kitchen gadgets but the donut pan recipes keep tempting me! These look delicious!
Annamaria Bakewell Junction
The donuts look delicious. I’ve considered buying a donut pan for baking but I’m not sure the donuts would be as good as fried. Are they?
Barbara Schieving
Hi Annamaria – baked donuts are fun, but not light and fluffy like a fried donut. Maybe a good analogy would be yeast breads versus quick breads. Both are delicious, but different.
Sheryl @ Lady Behind The Curtain
Love your recipe! Pinned it! ~Sheryl @ Lady Behind The Curtain~
Erin
The addition of the cinnamon chips won me over
Emily
STOP IT with these delicious recipes! I’m going to gain extra weight this season!
Rosa
Those really look good!
Cheers,
Rosa
Averie @ Averie Cooks
This is such a great idea – banana bread, in donut form! How fun!
Annalise
Yum!! Wish I had one of these to enjoy with my hot apple cider on this cold morning.
Becky
These sound perfectly winter-y and I bet the cinnamon smells fill your kitchen. Thanks for the donut mention too!
Megan
These look excellent! I would have never thought to make banana bread into donuts. And I love cinnamon chips!
kelley {mountain mama cooks}
I made some muffins last week that I rolled in cinnamon-sugar and now am wanting to do the same thing to every baked good that I make. You just can’t go wrong!
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
These sound so tasty! I absolutely love this idea!
Carol
These look so good Barbara. I have both the regular size AND the mini donut pans here that I haven’t used yet……I do believe that’s about to change very soon. I love those cinnamon chips too. Thanks so much!
Cassie | Bake Your Day
I love these, Barabara! I have been stuck on cinnamon chips lately. I am sure they are perfect to pair with banana!
Cookin' Canuck
Oh, I am absolutely going to try these! What a great idea to use a moist banana bread for donuts.