Banana Recipes

The perfect scrumptious snack that can brighten anyone's day at the breakfast table!

One of my favorite Mexican dishes, so many delicious flavors and great textures.

Moist banana cake with pecans topped with two luscious layers: sticky caramel glaze and maple cream cheese frosting. This show-stopping dessert is pure indulgence.

Cinnamon banana oat bread for the bread machine: a yeasted loaf with mashed banana, whole wheat, rolled oats, molasses, and a full tablespoon of cinnamon. Sliceable for sandwiches and toast.

Moist, nutty and fluffy, vegetable oil and honey give the bread a tangy taste, also the whole wheat flour and walnuts add some nutty flavor.

Blue goo pie is a no-bake cream cheese and whipped topping pie with sliced bananas and blueberry pie filling. Makes 2 pies in 15 minutes with zero oven time. A crowd-pleasing potluck legend.

Kona Inn banana bread, a Hawaiian classic studded with macadamia nuts and packed with six ripe bananas per batch. A tender, butter-rich loaf with island flavor that makes two loaves at a time.

Homemade banana chips fried crisp, then tossed in coconut treacle, sugar, and cinnamon for a sticky-sweet snack. A Sri Lankan twist on crunchy fried banana with warm spice in every bite.

Master cheesecake filling formula with cream cheese, powdered sugar, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. Learn the ratios for dense, fluffy, chocolate, fruit, or liqueur-spiked variations.

Banana chocolate drop cookies with mashed ripe banana folded into the dough along with melted chocolate and chocolate chips. Soft, cake-like, and perfect for using up overripe bananas. Makes four dozen quick drop cookies.

A satisfyingly dense and moist muffin! I just added a cup of chopped walnuts for a great chunky effect.

All-Season Quick Bread or Muffins: a flexible whole-wheat base recipe with six fruit and vegetable options (banana, zucchini, carrot, apple, orange, tomato). Loaves or muffins.

Six-ingredient banana bread built on self-rising flour and ripe bananas. No baking soda to measure, no creaming, no fuss. Served cold with cream cheese the way Southern grandmas always have.

*When you buy carambola, also called star fruit, look for ones that are uniformly yellow to orange and have a subtle perfume. If they are green, they aren't ripe and won't yield a great deal of flavor. At their ripest, their flavor is an unmistakably tropical combination of apple, banana and lychee.

Moist banana coffee muffins, ripe bananas and brown sugar deepened with a shot of strong coffee and studded with chocolate chips. A one-bowl, mocha-banana muffin that bakes up tender and rich.

Super moist, delicious, and packed with banana and coconut flavor. If you are a big fan of both, this banana bread will be heavenly tasty for you. Definitely should be on your to-bake list.