Homemade Donuts

I am going to admit something that is very shameful, we have been serving our children Eggo waffles for breakfast. I am normally gone from 5 am until 7 am getting in a workout. So having a healthy homemade breakfast ready for the kids has not been an option. I have decided to right this wrong by making homemade donuts and pop tarts. I am making big batches and freezing them.

Homemade Banana Cinnamon Donuts

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup butter

4 bananas

3 tablespoons milk

1 cup unbleached flour (I always use Eagles Mill Ultragrain)

1 cup flour mixture (Mixture made from equal parts-whole wheat flour, unbleached flour, wheat germ)

4 teaspoons cinnamon

1/3 cup ground oats (to make put oats in blender)

2 tablespoons flax seed

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

-Cream sugar, butter, and egg together. Beat until fluffy.

-Add bananas and milk, beat well.

-Combine flours, cinnamon, flax seed, ground oats, baking powder, baking soda.

-Gradually add the flour mixture to mixer.

-Grease donut pan.

-Add batter to donut pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.

I purchased this donut maker (by Wilton) at Meijer. This is a picture after I filled them with the batter. You just need to put enough in to reach the top, or maybe even a little under the rim.

Don't they look yummy! I served them with a little powdered sugar sprinkled on top, they looked so pretty.

To make Apple Cinnamon Donuts use the above recipe substituting 2 pureed granny smith apples for the bananas (2 apples should yield 1 1/2 cups pureed apples). I used 4 apples and saved half of the puree for another batch of donuts.

Elliana liked the banana cinnamon the best.

The apple cinnamon received a thumbs up from the boys! (they liked both kinds but said the apple was the best)