40 Banana Recipes That Go Past Banana Bread

Bananas are type of like avocados: You purchase them with good intentions to make use of them up, you then blink, and BAM! Too many overripe bananas. We’ve all been there—don’t simply watch them go brown! Do the appropriate factor and add them to peanut butter banana pie, make a traditional banana break up, or get up to a killer smoothie. Take a look at our listing of 40 banana recipes—there’s a lot extra to the fruit than banana bread! You simply would possibly want you had picked up extra bananas in your grocery journey.

To be honest although, banana bread IS the traditional method to bake with bananas, and our traditional recipe is the BEST. It’s perhaps solely overwhelmed by the banana recipe runner-up, banana pudding. We love our authentic recipe—with its solely barely candy, hint-of-vanilla taste—a lot, we’ve made tons of spin-offs impressed by it. Take a look at our banana pudding cheesecake, banana pudding cookies, or banana pudding cupcakes in the event you’re seeking to shake issues up too. Searching for one thing somewhat extra high-brow than fast breads or pudding? Bananas could be fancy too! Strive our Dutch child pancake recipe (extremely versatile and spectacular) for brunch, or our banoffee pie or bananas Foster for dessert. They’re positive to impress your visitors (and belief us, you’ll be able to flambé at dwelling 😉).

Are your bananas teetering on that precipice of good and too ripe? To not worry—freeze these infants! A frozen banana can be utilized for any of our recipes that decision for mashed bananas, like our banana oatmeal cookies (simply defrost them first), or could be was a creamy, dreamy frozen deal with, like our peanut butter banana v’ice cream, açaí bowl, or quite a lot of smoothies.

For extra fruity inspiration, try our greatest summer time peach desserts, lemon blueberry desserts, and strawberry desserts too.