Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Baked Doughnuts

These moist and delicious chocolate chip studded, banana bread doughnuts are dipped in a rich chocolate ganache before being sprinkled with chopped pecans for added crunch. You'll be back for seconds, or even thirds.

Banana bread is one of my favourite, and most baked recipes in the world.  There's nothing better than the rich fug emanating from the kitchen when you've got a banana bread or two in the oven. It's the first thing I recommend for baking novices, and the first thing I think to bake for friends and family. It truly is a staple in my life.  That being said, I've never turned it into doughnuts... until now.

Chocolate chip banana bread baked doughnuts, it just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it? Well, I can promise you that these little buggers are a much better mouthful than their name.  Just don't try to say it with your mouth full of doughnut, trust me.

I just love baked doughnuts, aren't they just the cutest? All the fun of the fair without the big old hassle of deep frying. Not that I don't like fried doughnuts, they're just more of an event.  I'm an equal opportunities doughnut fan.

You're gonna need a 6 hole doughnut pan for this recipe. If you don't already have one, this is the one I use. I've had it for absolutely years now and it's still going strong.

Still looking for bananary inspiration? Check out my other banana bread recipes here: Double Chocolate Banana Bread / Hazelnut Banana Bread / Banana & Chocolate French Toast / Banana Bread

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Baked Doughnuts

Ingredients:

• 2 medium, very ripe bananas, mashed
• 100g light brown sugar
• 75g unsalted butter, melted
• 150g plain flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 large, free range egg
• 100g chocolate chips
• 200g dark chocolate, chopped
• 400ml double cream
• 50g chopped pecans

Cooking Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 175C and grease the hollows of a doughnut pan.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer mix together the mashed banana, melted butter and egg. Stir through the flour, baking powder and cinnamon until just combined. Stir through the chocolate chips.
3. Pour the batter into a large piping bag and pipe into the prepared doughnut pan, filling each hollow to the top. Bake for 15 minutes before turning out onto a wire cooling rack.
4. To make the chocolate glaze place the chopped chocolate into a bowl and set aside. Heat the double cream to just below boiling point, pour the hot cream over the chopped chocolate and let sit for a few minutes. Stir the cream and chocolate together until fully melted and glossy.
5. Dip each cooled doughnut into the chocolate glaze and sprinkle with the chopped pecans.

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Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

These chocolate chip cookies use ground pecans and coconut in the flour mixture and the darkest chocolate to give them a deep, sophisticated taste.  This is a cookie for the adults, no kids allowed. Unless they've been really good...

I wonder how many chocolate chip cookie recipes I can possibly fit on this blog?  The funny thing is, I'm not anywhere near done yet.  As long as different variations on this ultimate classic exist, I'll keep baking 'em.  It's hard work, but someone has to do it.

I'm definitely team nut (and team raisin, I'll fight anyone who disagrees) when it comes to cookies, I'll always choose a pecan studded number over a plain chocolate chip.  Nuts add a wonderful texture to a cookie, or muffin, or any sweet treat if you ask me.  It works out perfectly in my house as Kris is an avid nut (and raisin) hater, so I know that if I want a treat and not have to worry about it vanishing, I can always whip up a big batch of these pecan chocolate chip cookies.

At least that's what I thought. I made a batch of these cookies, smugly knowing they were just for me, when I noticed Kris loitering around the kitchen. He was a little too interested in what was going on for my liking. 'They're full of nuts, you won't like them!' I shouted, brandishing a wooden spoon protectively.  He simply shrugged and popped a full cookie in his mouth.  Over the next few days I'd say he ate around 80% of the batch, I still haven't decided whether it was a failure or a success.  I'd failed in making something just for me but succeeded in making something so delicious that even a nut hater would renounce his stance and devour the lot.  

Nope, I'm still thinking....

So, are you a fan of nuts in cookies, and more importantly, will you be giving these babies a go to test your alliance?   Give them a go; you never know, they might change your mind.

Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 75g desiccated coconut
• 150g pecans
• 125g plain flour
• 1/2tsp baking powder
• 1/4tsp salt
• 125g unsalted butter at room temperature
• 80g light brown sugar
• 50g caster sugar
• 1 large, free range egg
• 2tbsp black treacle
• 200g best quality dark chocolate, chopped

Cooking Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 175C and line two cookie sheets with baking parchment. Spread the coconut and pecans onto each of the lined cookie sheets and bake for 8 minutes until lightly toasted and fragrant. Allow to cool.
2. Take 50g of the toasted pecan nuts and transfer them to a food processor and pulse until they form fine crumbs. Chop the remaining pecans roughly and set aside.
3. Stir the toasted coconut, pecan crumbs, flour, baking powder and salt together and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer mix together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, around 5 minutes. Beat in the egg followed by the black treacle then dump the flour mixture in and mix slowly until just combined. Stir through the chocolate and chopped pecans then cover the bowl with cling film and rest in the fridge for 1 hour or up to overnight.
4. When you're ready to bake the cookies scoop out heaped tablespoons of the dough and place on the prepared baking sheets from toasting the nuts, giving the cookies a little room to spread. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes, allow to cool slightly on the baking tray before removing to a wire rack to finish cooling.

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