Chocolate Chip Zucchini Banana Doughnuts: 2 Weight Watchers Smart Points / 2 Points Plus (4 servings)

Who doesn’t love a good doughnut?  I literally never even considered making my own until I saw them trending on one of my favorite Instagram feeds.  Kate of Drizzle Me Skinny (www.drizzlemeskinny.com) is the doughnut queen.  She got me hooked.  After scrolling through several I rushed out to Bed, Bath & Beyond (don’t forget your coupon!) to procure my very own pan.

I got my doughnut pan about the time we were moving into the loft.  The first few times I used it I was improvising….apparently I had packed three mini muffin pans and not a single regular sized one.  Cornbread shaped like a circle with a hole in the center isn’t too shabby.  It’s a perfect spot to add a little sweet cream butter…just kidding.  As far as you know.

Last week I had too much zucchini and not enough ideas left.  If you are related to, live near or work with anyone who has zucchini in their garden you know what I mean.  Answer the door and you’ve got some more. I didn’t want zucchini bread, that’s so last year.  And zucchini muffins?  Please….I wanted something fun.

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Banana Doughnuts: 2 Weight Watchers Smart Points / 2 Points Plus (4 servings)

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Birch Benders 10 gram Protein Pancake & Waffle Mix (Whole Foods or Sprouts. If you can’t find substitute Kodiak Cakes Power Cakes Mix)
• 1/2 cup shredded zucchini
• 1/2 of a very ripe banana
• 1 Tbsp Chocolate Dream Non Dairy Semi Sweet Baking Chips (half the points of regular chocolate chips!)
• 1/8 cup water (+ or – a Tbsp depending on how moist zucchini is
• Non stick spray

In a medium size mixing bowl with a handle, cream the banana with a fork and blend in the zucchini.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add dry ingredients and mix with fork.  Add water a tablespoon at a time until the mixture is the consistency of thick pancake batter.  Spray 4 regular sized doughnut pan holes and then fill each one with 1/4 of the batter.  You may need to “encourage” the batter to go evenly into each hole around the little center sticky uppy thing.  Bake for 12 minutes and then gently check them.  If you press and it springs back you can take them out.  If you leave a fingerprint put them back in for another minute or two.

They are the bomb warm but still just as good reheated.  If you manage to not eat all four (they are only 2 points so even if you do it’s ok!) let them completely cool before you put them in a ziplock bag or container.  Completely.  Cool.  If not they will sweat the bag and freezer burn because they are that moist.  If you are not eating the same day I do recommend refrigeration or freezing for later.  Let me know how you like them!

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