So last Saturday was National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day, but instead of filling my donuts with cream I ended up day-dreaming about my crackly chocolate covered baked donuts.

While Gav loves desserts that are creamy & smooth I’m more of a crunch gal, which is why these donuts are more crackly chocolate and sprinkles than donuts or cream themselves.

I made these with bananas to pack extra moisture (and nutrition of course), and the taste is very subtle since there’s only a few tsp mashed banana in each donut.

If you absolutely cannot stand banana, just sub applesauce and the fruit flavor will be even more neutral.

Let me know if you give this recipe a try!

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5 from 2 votes

Small-batch Chocolate Covered Donuts

Prep Time10

Cook Time20

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Keyword: baked donuts, chocolate, chocolate covered, donuts, easy recipes, gluten-free, low sugar, plant-based, vegan

Servings: donuts

Calories: 166kcal

Equipment

Donut or muffin pan

Ingredients

1/2 ripe banana, mashed (60 g) sub 1/4 cup applesauce/pumpkin puree
1/3 cup any milk (80 g) I use unsweetened almond milk
2 tbsp maple syrup (42 g)
2 tbsp nut/seed butter (32 g) I use almond butter
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup flour (80 g) gf all purpose if desired
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt

Chocolate coating

1/2 cup chocolate chips (90 g)
2 tsp coconut oil (10 g)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F and grease a regular sized donut pan (mine are silicone). You can also use a muffin pan.
Combine banana, milk, maple, nut butter, vanilla until mixed. Whisk together all dry and fold into the wet, don't overmix. Batter should be pourable, if not add 1 tsp milk/water and fold until it is.
Pour into pan (only filling half-way for the most round-shaped donuts) and bake for about 20 minutes. Let them cool completely before trying to remove from the molds.
While the donuts are baking/cooling, melt the chocolate with the oil (I use microwave in 20 sec increments).
Then cover each cooled donut with chocolate (about 10 g per donut) and add sprinkles if you like. There will be chocolate left over to use for something else.
Let set in the fridge and enjoy!