Is your mouth watering already!? 😉 well, I won't keep you waiting..... The recipe,as it was shared with me is posted below, so go right ahead.....start baking! 😁
In the meantime, I will share with you the slight variations I made to the recipe and baking method due to the fact that this Busy Mom was working with what she had so as to avoid a second trip out with kids in tow on this rainy,dreary,wear pajamas sort of day we are having here!
So, first of all the recipe calls for Coconut flour, which not only did I not have, but,if you read my previous blog on baking favorites you would know that I personally have an aversion to Coconut flour. I'm actually betting based on the flavors in this recipe and the small amount of flour needed that I wouldn't mind the coconut flour for this, but being I didn't have it, I went ahead and substituted Almond flour. I did also add in just a small dash of Tapioca flour for texture, but if you are eating strictly Paleo style you can simply skip that. It isn't necessary.
Ok, so made the flour swap,and then it was onto my next issue. I do not have a food processor! It's on my list of kitchen gadgets I desperately need to get, but for today all I had to work with was a cheap blender. To make this work, I had to ignore the directions given to process together just the dates,banana and honey. My cheap blender was not about to blend them up without the addition of some wet ingredients to get it spinning. No problem, I simply tossed in ALL the ingredients together, all at once, and then pulsed the blender until the dates chopped up enough to keep it going on low speed and let it whip into a smooth batter. It actually wound up perfect and even better than if I'd had the processer , because of my third and final issue......Donut pan! I don't have one of those yet either and the store I ran out to didn't have one either. However, they did have the most adorable little mini donut press. It's essentially a waffle maker that produces mini donut shaped treats versus waffle shaped. It's used the exact same way. Now, being I had used a blender for my batter, it worked to my benefit because all I had to do was simply pour the batter right from blender pitcher into the donut press molds, close and wait. Due to the grain free gooey batter I found that I needed to leave them in for 2 cooking cycles before removing. I did this until all the batter was used up. For the donuts with edges that had overflowed a bit, I used my handy dandy kitchen scissors to trim them up quickly. This part is what took the most time as my donut press only makes 4 mini donuts at a time. I will definitely be investing in some large sized donut pans so that next time I can bake a couple large batches all at once,but I do love my cute little donut maker!
Onto frosting time..... I just grabbed whatever dark chocolate bits we had left and used our make shift double boiler, a.k.a.- glass dish over a pot of boiling water! Let it melt and tossed in some coffee grounds.I only had French vanilla, but it gave it a nice extra flavor! I only dipped one side of my donuts since I was low on chocolate, but next time I'm definitely going for completely chocolate coated. One quick dip for each donut and then my son requested sprinkles, so while not Paleo friendly, we sprinkled some pretty blue sugar across half the batch. Sometimes a little sprinkle is just neccessary! 😉 They didn't last very long as they were most definitely kid tested and approved here. We Especially loved them after they had cooled in the refridgerator for a few minutes because the chocolate coffee dip hardened back up and made a delicious shell coating over top!
Just as a side note, as a few other options. This batter would also make some super delicious waffles if you have a waffle maker, or pancakes in the frying pan,
or even mini bundt cakes, so just adapt it to whatever your kitchen is stocked with and ENJOY!!!
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