Banana Recipes

Overripe bananas transform into a tender, nutty cake with barely any fuss. Walnuts add earthy crunch while sweet banana keeps every bite moist for days.

Whole wheat carob chip banana bread made without eggs or dairy. Sweetened with sucanat and ripe bananas, this makes two tender loaves in under an hour.

Just 6 ingredients and 25 minutes to chewy sugarless banana cookies. Mashed bananas, oats, nuts, and raisins make these flourless, egg-free cookies naturally sweet and ready in a flash.

Chunky banana bran muffins, hearty and high in fiber, with buttermilk-soaked bran, diced banana, walnuts, and raisins, deepened by molasses and orange zest. A wholesome, satisfying breakfast muffin.

Fruitcake baked and sealed in canning jars for long-term storage up to a year. A spiced quick bread with your choice of fruit, raisins, and nuts, vacuum-sealed straight from the oven.

Banana pineapple pecan cake (Southern hummingbird-style) with crushed pineapple folded right into the batter, finished with a pineapple buttercream. Moist, fruity, and a potluck winner.

Polynesian yam casserole with bananas, crushed pineapple, and toasted coconut. A tropical sweet potato bake with just 5 ingredients and no added butter or sugar.

Yeasted banana fritters spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and orange zest, made with 10 ripe bananas. The dough rises overnight and fries into golden puffs. Makes 36 fritters.

It was named for Richard Foster, a friend of Brennan and regular patron of the restaurant. It remains the most popular dish at the restaurant to this day. Each year Brennan's utilizes over 35,000 pounds of bananas for the world renowned dessert. The standard recipe is as follows.

Try this devilishly delicious pasta dish made with pineapple juice, bananas and scotch bonnet chili peppers.

Backpack banana bran muffins are portable, fiber-rich snacks made with ripe bananas, bran cereal, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Sturdy enough to survive a school lunch or hike, soft enough to enjoy.

Banana oatmeal pecan bread with whole wheat flour, rolled oats, ripe bananas, honey, and a generous cup of broken pecans. A hearty quickbread with no white sugar.

Banana orange yogurt muffins are a healthy oat-based breakfast bake with mashed banana, fresh orange zest, plain yogurt, and chopped dates. Lower-fat with egg whites, ready in under an hour.

Banana ginger bran muffins with ground and crystallized ginger, oat bran, ripe banana, and a tart lemon glaze. A double-ginger muffin with whole wheat flour and high fiber.

Oven kalua turkey: a Hawaiian-style shredded turkey wrapped in ti and banana leaves with Hawaiian salt and liquid smoke. All the imu pit flavor, no backyard hole required.

Impress the neighbors at the next dinner you have with them with this decadent and delicious banana cream pie.