Carrot Cake Banana Bread Baked Doughnuts
These moist and delicious baked carrot cake banana bread doughnuts are a great way to start the day.
Ingredients
For the Doughnuts:
- 1/3 cup butter, softened salted
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-3/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1-1/3 cups mashed ripe bananas about 4 bananas
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened (for greasing the pan)
- Frosting
- Garnish
For the Frosting:
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups powdered sugar
For Garnish:
- 15 small pieces of carrot each cut to look like a whole carrot (for garnish)
- 15 small pieces of curly parsley for garnish
Instructions
For the Doughnuts:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium size bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Mix together and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the butter and sugar. Beat together. Add the eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
- Turn the mixer speed to low and using a spoon, add the dry ingredients little by little. Mix until the flour is incorporated.
- To the bowl, add mashed bananas and shredded carrots. Use a large sturdy spoon to mix the bananas and carrots in the batter.
- Grease the doughnut baking pan with butter. Add the batter evenly to the pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven (at 350 degrees F.) until a wooden toothpick inserted in the doughnuts comes out clean (about 17 minutes).
- Remove the doughnuts from the oven and let cool just long enough so that the doughnuts can be removed by hand and transferred onto a cooling rack.
- When the doughnuts have cooled, top with cream cheese frosting. Garnish with a small piece of carrot (shaped like a whole carrot) and a small piece of curly parsley as the green “top” of the whole carrot.
For the Cream Cheese Frosting (make after the doughnuts have cooled just before frosting them):
- In a medium size bowl, add all ingredients and beat until light and fluffy.