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    Banana Recipes

    Published: Jul 4, 2024 · Modified: Mar 11, 2025 by Maria Doss · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    These Banana Recipes are perfect when you have overripe bananas sitting on your counter. From the most amazing banana walnut cake, wholesome breakfast cookies to decadent date smoothie, you'll find irresistible inspiration to transform your ripe bananas into delicious treats.

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    • How to ripen bananas quickly?
    • How to freeze ripe bananas?
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    • Banana Recipes

    Wondering what to do with overripe banana sitting on your kitchen counter? Don't throw them, instead dive into our collection of delicious ripe banana recipes, featuring eggless banana bread, five varieties of banana muffins, almond flour banana pancakes, baked oatmeal, nutritious smoothies, and much more.

    How to ripen bananas quickly?

    There are several effective methods to quickly ripen bananas when you're preparing to use them in recipes. Here are a few options:

    • Paper bag method - Place the bananas in a paper bag, loosely fold the top, and leave them at room temperature for about a day or two. Adding an apple to the bag will speed up the ripening process due to its ethylene production.
    • Sunny spot - Keep the bananas in a warm place, like a sunny window, as warmth can accelerate the ripening process.
    • Oven method - To ripen bananas in the oven, bake them at 300°F for 25 to 40 minutes until the skin turns nearly black and they become soft to the touch. Allow the bananas to cool before using them in banana recipes.

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    How to freeze ripe bananas?

    • When freezing bananas for baking recipes like muffins or bread, peel them first, place them in a large freezer-safe zipper bag, and freeze for up to 2 months.
    • When freezing bananas for smoothie recipes, it's best to cut them into chunks first, since whole frozen bananas can be difficult for the blender to process.

    How to use frozen bananas in recipes?

    Remove the frozen bananas from the freezer and thaw them at room temperature for 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator. When thawing, the bananas release a brown liquid. It's advisable to strain and discard this liquid to prevent it from adding excess moisture and altering your recipe's end result.

    Banana Recipes

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    Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is incredibly soft and tender, loaded with gooey chocolate chips that stay perfectly distributed throughout. It's easy to make and bursting with rich banana flavor—simply perfect!

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    This Banana Walnut Cake is tall, moist yet sturdy enough to be sliced. It's super easy to make with mega banana flavor- there is no need to mash bananas!

    3

    This Healthy Waffles recipe is the easiest waffle recipe ever - Just add few wholesome ingredients into a blender, blend and make waffles. With just 5 minutes of prep, these are made without any flour, butter, oil or sugar!

    4

    These Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins are quick and easy! They are sturdy yet fluffy with a tender crumb but made without eggs. Studded with dark chocolate chips, they are full of banana flavor and require 10 minutes of prep.

    5

    This Date Smoothie is made using 5 simple ingredients, ready in under 5 minutes, bursting with nutrients, and shockingly decadent.

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    These Breakfast cookies are one of the healthiest cookies you'll ever eat! Made using nutritious ingredients, they have a hearty and chewy texture with crispy edges. Made in one bowl!
    7

    This Banana Mug Cake bakes in the microwave in exactly 90 seconds. Warm, light and fluffy, with gooey melted chocolate chips and crunchy walnuts, it is the fastest way to enjoy a warm banana chocolate chip muffin!

    8

    Almond Flour Banana Pancakes are light, fluffy and delicately flavored with bananas. With only 5 minutes of prep, this is a super easy recipe because there is no beating egg whites.

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    This Walnut Smoothie is made using 5 wholesome ingredients like walnuts, dates, cocoa powder, banana and milk. It is tasty, nutritious and satisfying.

    11

    These Mini Banana Muffins are incredibly soft, light and tender, with sweet banana flavor and made without eggs. They just take 30 minutes from start to finish and is the perfect way to use that one over ripe banana sitting on your counter.

    12

    This Eggless Banana Bread is tender and moist, with a soft crumb. You don't any mixer and it comes together in under 10 minutes. Stays moist for days!

    13

    This Banana Overnight Oats captures all the flavors of a banana nut muffin in a convenient overnight oats recipe!

    14

    These Eggless Banana Muffins are ultra soft, light and amazingly tender. It just takes 10 minutes of prep and you don't need any mixer!

    15

    This Pina Colada Smoothie is a healthy twist on your favorite beach cocktail! Made using just 4 ingredients, it is a cool and refreshing way to begin a hot summer day.

    16

    These Carrot Cookies may not be the prettiest but they are one of the healthiest cookies you'll ever make! Made using 6 wholesome ingredients, these have a soft and chewy texture, and are a guilt-free treat. No butter, oil, sugar or flour!
    17

    These Almond Flour Banana Muffins are made in under 10 minutes. Made using wholesome ingredients like almond flour and almond butter, these are amazingly healthy without any added fat.

    18

    This Spinach Smoothie recipe does not taste like spinach - It is sweet, creamy, refreshing, made with 5 simple ingredients and tastes delicious.

    19

    This Air Fryer Banana Cake is wonderfully soft and fluffy with the perfect texture and flavor. With just 5 minutes prep time, this is a fool proof recipe.

    20

    This Oatmeal Smoothie tastes like a chocolate milkshake - It is sweet, creamy, decadent, filling, rich and made with just 5 ingredients.

    21

    Baked Oatmeal Cups are a portable form of traditional baked oatmeal. Easily made in one bowl, they are healthy and also made using nutritious ingredients. Store them in the freezer for a wholesome grab-and-go breakfast!

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    These Air Fryer Banana Muffins are made using paper cupcake liners and have a beautiful crusty exterior with soft and fluffy inside, that is unlike an oven baked muffin, and it cooks in half the time. So good!

    23

    This Chocolate Avocado Smoothie recipe does not taste like avocado! Made using 5 ingredients, it is creamy, rich, decadent and perfect for picky eaters.

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    This Banana Sheet Cake with Chocolate Ganache is irresistibly soft, fluffy, and the perfect crowd-pleaser! Easy to make, with a rich, decadent, and shiny chocolate ganache is absolutely delicious!

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