Banana Recipes

A layered tube cake with banana sour cream batter and a crunchy coconut-oat-pecan streusel swirled through every layer. Semi-homemade with yellow cake mix. Serves 12.

Classic Bananas Foster with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, rum, and brandy flambéed over vanilla ice cream. This legendary New Orleans dessert comes together in just 20 minutes.

A refreshing frozen banana ice made with mashed banana, orange juice, pineapple juice, and lemon juice in a simple sugar syrup. No ice cream maker needed. Just freeze in ice trays.

A tropical twist on cole slaw with shredded cabbage, pineapple tidbits, sliced banana, and pecans in a creamy honey-sour cream dressing. No cooking, ready in 30 minutes.

Simple banana shortcake made with toasted buckwheat banana bread topped with whipped mashed banana and a squeeze of lemon. A quick, wholesome breakfast for one.

Layered banana split ice cream cake with strawberry, vanilla-pineapple, and chocolate ice cream layers, homemade chocolate sauce, and fresh strawberry sauce. Serves 12.

Banana walnut upside-down cake with a brown sugar-maple syrup caramel, sliced bananas in concentric circles, and a cinnamon butter cake. Served warm with whipped cream.

Layered banana yogurt cake with toasted coconut, banana syrup, creamy pecan filling, and white snow frosting. A showpiece layer cake with three homemade components.

Soft banana nut bar cookies baked in a sheet pan with sour cream for extra moisture, then slathered with a tangy cream cheese frosting. Cut into bars and watch them vanish.

Creamy frozen banana-orange push-up pops blended with yogurt and powdered milk. Low-fat, heart-healthy, and kid-approved. Just blend, pour into cups or molds, and freeze.

Classic bananas flambe with rum and banana liqueur, sauteed in butter and brown sugar with cinnamon. A dramatic tableside dessert served over vanilla ice cream.

Baked bananas Mexicana with orange juice, brown sugar, butter, and shredded coconut toasted golden in the oven. A five-ingredient Mexican-inspired dessert in 30 minutes.

Soft, chewy oatmeal cookies sweetened naturally with banana and raisins, loaded with chunky peanut butter and cinnamon. No added sugar. Makes just 2 big satisfying cookies.

A delicious muesli mix made of rolled oats, seedless raisins and bananas.

A produce department recipe. Tastes high-calorie, but is actually fairly low-cal. Sauce is best served the same day as it is made.

Pineapple banana breakfast shake blended from juicy pineapple, ripe banana, skim milk and vanilla. A naturally sweet, four-ingredient tropical smoothie that comes together in the blender in minutes.