Gluten-Free Baked Banana Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts (A Guest Post from Sweet Twist of Blogging)

Happy Memorial Day! Today I'm participating in a Recipe Swap with lots of other awesome bloggers! This way you get to find some more great bloggers to follow, and get a recipe from someone else. Like these doughnuts! YUM! I've only made GF doughnut one time, but these look so good. And better for you, since they aren't fried. I haven't figured out the baked doughnut yet and doughnuts are sorely missed in my household.  I can't wait to try them, and I hope you do too! So without waiting another minute, I'm going to turn my blog over to Meg from Sweet Twist of Blogging!

Recipe Swap Day! Hello Flippin Delicious followers,  I am Meg from Sweet Twist of Blogging, I was lucky enough to be paired of with Brianna in this blogger recipe swap.   I am I would say 98% of the time a baking blogger with desserts and treats taking up most of my posts.  I am not exclusively a gluten free blogger though, but I was up for the challenge of coming up with another gluten free recipe for Brianna and this swap.

This time around I challenged myself with donuts. I am currently on maternity leave, but when I was at work my director would bring in doughnuts about once a month.   Not great for the diet, but when I was pregnant I certainly enjoyed this little treat.   These are not fried donuts.  I also try to keep desserts lighter than they need to be.  When you bake as often as I do it is good to find ways to lighten things up.

Gluten Free Banana Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts and Bites

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup sourgum flour
• 2/3 cup brown rice flour
• 1/3 cup potato starch
• 1 tbps guar gum
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
• 3 medium-large bananas, overripe, pureed. 

For the dipping

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2-3 tbsp cinnamon (depending on how you like your cinnamon sugar)

NOTE : If you don't want to make these gluten free simply replace the first 4 ingredients with 2 cups cake flour. 

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Preheat the oven 400F.  Spray doughnut pan with non stick spray. 

2) Combine flours, potato starch, guar gum, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl or mixer bowl. 

3) Add buttermilk, eggs, butter and bananas. Beat on low until just combined or mix by hand to fold in wet ingredients. 

4) Fill 6 doughnut rings 2/3 full.   Bake about 7-9 minutes, done when top will spring back. 

5) Take the remaining batter and scoop into mini muffin tins.  Reduce oven temp to 375F and bake for 8-10 minutes.

6)  Let both doughnuts and bites, cool but still slightly warm. Combine the dipping sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.  Dip the doughnuts and bites in the butter, tapping off excess,  then dip them in the cinnamon sugar.   Let them set and dry on a wire rack.  Store in a airtight container.


Enjoy!

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