1,200 banana recipes

Banana walnut sandwich cookies filled with a peanut butter cream cheese frosting and a touch of nutmeg. A two-component cookie with soft banana rounds and a creamy, salty-sweet center.

So it had been over 2 years since being diagnosed with Celiac Disease and I still hadn't had any homemade banana pudding. Thanks to vitacost.com and their awesome gf selection I found some yummy vanilla wafers that were gluten free (Kinnickki brand). Of course my longing needed to be rich, creamy and worth the long wait lol. So here is the deliciousness! I think the cream cheese makes it better than any I've ever tried before.

3 ingredients -- as much time as you want to put into it.

Banana nut yeast bread is a risen sandwich loaf with mashed bananas, chopped pecans, evaporated milk, and a cinnamon-sugar topping. The slow-risen alternative to quickbread.

Grilled oysters on the half shell drenched in a rich curry cream sauce made with homemade fish fumet, topped with a tropical red banana salsa spiked with serrano chiles, tamarind, and fresh mint. A showstopper.

Grilled steaks in a soy-ginger-curry marinade with torch bananas wrapped in foil with honey, coconut, and pineapple juice, finished with flaming brandy. A showstopper BBQ dinner.

A whole banana tucked into a hot dog bun with peanut butter and jelly. This 10-minute no-cook snack is a kid-friendly grab-and-go breakfast or lunchbox win.

Double chocolate banana snack cake loaded with cocoa and chocolate chips, made with ripe mashed bananas for extra moisture. A one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that serves eight.

Light-as-air banana chiffon cake with tangy cream cheese frosting. Ripe bananas meet fluffy egg whites for a moist, tender crumb that melts on your tongue.

This recipe is great for using up any leftover yogurt and over ripe bananas.

A show-stopping 4-layer banana cake with stiff meringue folded into the batter, filled with vanilla custard, and frosted with a silky cooked flour-butter frosting laced with almond extract. This is banana cake at its most dramatic.

Vegan whole wheat zucchini banana bread sweetened only with banana, raisins, and grape juice concentrate. No added sugar, no oil, no eggs in this moist quick bread powered by fruit and cinnamon.

A fresh and tasty fruit snack for when you have no time for a proper meal

Crispy egg rolls stuffed with thin-sliced chicken breast and sweet banana, brushed with sesame oil and deep-fried golden. A bold sweet-savory appetizer that'll vanish from the plate.

Grilled pork chops paired with bacon-wrapped banana skewers, dusted with cumin and lemon. The salty-smoky bacon and caramelized banana play off the cumin-rubbed chops for a sweet-savory cookout plate.

For best results slice the cake chilled, but let sit 1/2 hour at room temperature before serving.