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Chocolate Glazed Peanut Butter Banana Doughnuts. Everyone’s favorite easy, cute, fun, and just SO DELICIOUS baked doughnuts! With over-ripe bananas, creamy salted peanut butter, whole wheat flour, and lots of mini chocolate chips, these are going to be on repeat. Dip these peanut butter banana doughnuts into a perfectly creamy chocolate glaze – so yummy. It’s that glossy glaze that entices everyone! Then, decorate with all your favorite spring pastels. Have fun with these!
Spring!! Spring is coming and I’m feeling all the excitement. But mainly, I’m just so excited to share these doughnuts! The only thing they actually have to do with spring is the fact that I made them for Easter. Whether that’s an Easter brunch, Easter dessert, or just some fun Easter baking, I LOVE them so much.
Also, happy St.Patrick’s Day everyone! These could be equally great for today as well. I even used some Lucky Charms marshmallows to decorate!
But these are meant to be my Easter doughnuts! My family and I are truly obsessed with them – Asher, Oslo, mom, and dad, we all really adored these doughnuts.
All the gushing aside, the inspiration came from two places. My blender banana muffins, which if you have not yet made, you really need to. I made several batches because the requests kept coming (Asher and Oslo loved them!). The other inspiration is my newfound fascination with baking doughnuts. I’ve just really gotten into making doughnuts this year, they are so cute and yummy!
Just a few weeks ago I made blackout doughnuts, and now peanut butter banana doughnuts. But to be very honest, I love these doughnuts even more. As I said, I’m kind of obsessed. They’re just so fun, so easy, and SO DELICIOUS!
I really love that they’re not overly sugary. They’re actually on the healthier side (aside from the decorations), so you gotta love that!
Details
You just need a couple of mixing bowls and some simple ingredients for these!
Add all of the wet ingredients to the bowl first. Start with the bananas, then the peanut butter, maple syrup, eggs, and vanilla. All ingredients I always have on hand.
Mix up the wet ingredients – be sure to mash up the bananas first. Then add the dry, just whole wheat flour (though all-purpose works nicely too), baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Then blend one more time to just combine everything and stir in the coconut oil.
Once the batter is ready to go, bake in a doughnut pan. If you don’t have a doughnut pan, make doughnut holes using either a regular muffin pan or a mini muffin pan. Either option works just the same.
The glaze
Oh, the glaze, or glazes I should say. They make doughnuts and both are so simple. Just chocolate chips and either avocado oil or milk.
If you use milk, you get a really creamy, dark, and rich glaze that stays softer on the doughnuts. It’s delicious and leaves you with chocolatey fingers – fun! If you use oil, you’ll get a more stiff glaze that really sets up and hardens once the doughnuts cool.
Both are equally delicious, it’s more of a texture thing. The chocolate + milk glaze is creamy and fudgy. While the chocolate + oil glaze is more firm, like milk chocolate.
To decorate – the fun part, I used a mix. Some doughnuts have chocolate sprinkles. For the others, I took leftover marshmallows from the Lucky Charms box and crushed them over the doughnuts.
They turned out sooo cute. I love the pastel Easter colors! Just looking at these makes me happier! Enjoy a few doughnuts while the glaze is still warm – yummmy!
Each bite is filled with sweet, fluffy, peanut butter banana cake and extra fudgy chocolate frosting. You can’t beat these!
Looking for other springtime desserts? Here are my favorites:
Lucky’s Golden Ticket Cupcakes
Double Strawberry Sugar Cookies
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Muffins
Giant Double Blueberry Muffin Cookies
Cream Cheese Swirled Cinnamon Carrot Cake Muffins
Lastly, if you make these Chocolate Glazed Peanut Butter Banana Doughnuts, be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite!
Chocolate Glazed Peanut Butter Banana Doughnuts
Servings: 12 doughnuts
Calories Per Serving: 460 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
- 4 medium overly ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 1/4 cup mashed)
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (or all-purpose flour)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
Glaze
- 2 cups mini chocolate chips, divided
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil
- 1/3 cup milk
- chocolate sprinkles, for decorating
- crushed lucky charms marshmallows, for decorating
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350° F. Grease a 6-cup doughnut pan or 12-cup muffin pan with melted butter2. In a bowl, stir together the bananas, peanut butter, maple syrup, eggs, and vanilla until combined. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix until just combined. Stir in the coconut oil.4. Divide the batter evenly among the molds in the prepared pan, filling 1/2-2/3 of the way full. Bake 12-13 minutes, until just set. Remove and let cool 5 minutes, then run a knife around the edges to release, and invert the pan.5. Meanwhile, make the glaze. You can make both glazes or just one.Glaze 1: Microwave the chocolate chips and oil on 30-second intervals, stirring after each, until melted and smooth.Glaze 2: Microwave the chocolate chips and milk on 30-second intervals, stirring after each, until melted and smooth.6. Dip the doughnuts into the glaze. Decorate, as desired with sprinkles and or crushed marshmallows. Enjoy and have fun with these!
I made them yesterday and I took them to work, since we were having a little gathering after closing the store, and, despite being more food and desserts to try, these little gems dissapeared in a blink of an eye! I got many compliments and got asked to make them again soon.
They weren’t to sweet, which I personaly loved, and then with the glaze….uhmmm yummy, really nice.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe, it is a keeper 100%. I also have shared your link to your website because many colleagues wanted to try for themselves 🙂
Hey Esther,
Amazing!! Thanks so much for making this recipe and your feedback, so glad to hear it was enjoyed! Thanks for sharing with others and your kind message:) xx
Super delicious! Reminds me of the PB banana blender muffin recipe which is equally as yummy. I ended up doing a 1/2 cup of almond flour, and still worked wonderfully. Also only made one glaze and had ample for all donuts.
Hey there! Thank you so so much for trying out the recipe! I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment as well! 🙂 xT
My kids and I made these last night. Since we had so much extra glaze (we made both varieties), after initially glazing with only one of the glazes, we tried double glazing — milk glaze first followed by the oil glaze… double glazing was the winner hands down; less messy and extra chocolatey. YUM!
Hey there! Thank you so so much for trying out the recipe! I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment as well! 🙂 xT
My kiddos love these! I use enjoy chocolate chips for the chocolate glaze and they go BANANAS! Whoever has one asks for the recipe. It is like a little bite sized banana bread just better!
Thank you so much for giving the recipe a try! Have a great day! xT
Love how light & tasty these are. I’m officially addicted.
Hi Jenna,
Happy Monday!! I am thrilled to hear that this recipe turned out well for you, thanks for trying it and your comment!🌼🌸 xx
My daughter and I made these last night, some donuts, some mini muffins. They turned out so good! I put mine in the refrigerator after we were done just to help keep them a little bit longer with having the banana in them and they were still good this morning. Thank you for sharing!
Hey Kimberly,
Fantastic!! I appreciate you making this recipe and sharing your feedback, so glad to hear it was enjoyed! xT
So yummy! If I want to freeze half I assume I don’t glaze them right? Do you have any tips for how to freeze properly?Thanks!
Hi Joselyne,
Amazing!! So glad to hear that this recipe was enjoyed and thanks a bunch for making it! Yes, I would freeze without the glaze and make sure they are in an airtight container. xx
Would I be able to substitute Almond flour or paleo flour for these?
Hi Meredith,
I think you would have best results using a gluten free flour blend! I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any other questions! xT
These are so delicious! I just happened to find frozen bananas in the freezer. They are husband approved!
Hey Jane,
Happy Monday!! 🍋🫐 I truly appreciate you making this recipe and your comment, love to hear that it was a hit! xT
Can we freeze the dough to use on a busy weekend???
We love your recipes 🙂
Thanks so much Bea!! I don’t think freezing this dough would be the best idea! I would suggest freezing the doughnuts and then adding the glaze once thawed. I hope this helps! xT
We don’t have a doughnut tin? Any suggestions for a substitute? Gonna put it on my Amazon list tho…….
Hi Katie,
You can bake these in a muffin tin:) Let me know if you have any other questions, I hope you love this recipe!xT