1,200 banana recipes

Spiced banana cookie wreaths: ring-shaped cookies made from banana, granola, raisins, and warm spices, drizzled with glaze and almonds. Christmas gift-worthy baking.

Banana cake sweetened with fruit sweetener instead of refined sugar, with sour cream, chopped nuts, and optional coconut. A naturally sweetened banana cake that bakes in 25 minutes.

Banana split bread for the bread machine packs sliced banana, strawberries, crushed pineapple, walnuts, chocolate chips, and maraschino cherries into one yeast loaf. Soda fountain in bread form.

A spiced sheet cake packed with grated carrots, mashed bananas, toasted coconut, and pecans. Warm cloves and mace set it apart from ordinary carrot cake. Cuts into 24 squares and freezes well.

Chinese toffee-coated apples and bananas with crispy batter and caramel sesame coating. Deep-fried fruit dunked in ice water creates a shatteringly crisp candy shell.

West African bananas with green split peas, browned onions, and palm oil. A hearty vegetarian main dish that simmers the peas tender before steaming whole bananas on top.

Moist banana loaf cake studded with grated bittersweet chocolate, dusted with powdered sugar. Uses ripe bananas, half-and-half, and real butter for a rich, tender crumb.

Lower-fat banana cake with pureed prunes replacing most of the butter, nonfat vanilla yogurt, and egg whites. A moist sheet cake that cuts the fat without losing flavor.

Loosely related to a dessert from the English-speaking islands of the West Indies, this makes a wonderful - and legal - winter fruit pudding. Despite its richness, it has next to no fat and, if you use eggs modified with omega 3 oil, it couldn't be more nutritionally sound.

Silky, from-scratch custard loaded with fresh banana slices in a flaky prebaked crust, crowned with whipped cream. Banana cream pie the old-fashioned way.

Mashed sweet potatoes blended with roasted bananas, orange juice, brown sugar, cinnamon, cardamom, and a pinch of red pepper flakes. A naturally creamy, butter-free holiday side that skips the marshmallow fluff.

Soft, chewy banana cookies loaded with chopped pecans and a hint of molasses and cinnamon. This drop cookie recipe makes 3 dozen and disappears even faster.

Bring out the grass-skirts when you sit down to eat this scrumptious and spicy dish.

Easy banana walnut snack cake using a box cake mix, mashed banana, and chopped walnuts. Baked in a square pan and dusted with powdered sugar through a doily.

Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwich recipe

Banana bread made with Grape-Nuts cereal for crunch, egg substitute, buttermilk, and corn syrup. A lower-fat banana loaf with nutty texture and no butter or oil needed.