Our 15 Best Banana Recipes

By Mia R. • Jul 09, 2024

Is your fruit basket overflowing with ripe bananas? Or maybe you just love the flavor of bananas? Look no further than these 15 Banana Recipes! From cake to pudding to salads and smoothies — these recipes will help you use up those bananas in no time. Packed with potassium and delicious vitamins that will fuel you for the day, bananas are a terrific addition to any diet.

1. Sour Cream Banana Bread

It's amazing what a single ingredient can do. Sour Cream Banana Bread, with just the inclusion of the titular sour cream, becomes an even richer and tastier baked confection than its traditional counterparts. Sweet, tender, and packed with tropical banana flavor, Sour Cream Banana Bread is a delight at breakfast parties or as a hearty snack. This will become your favorite banana bread recipe going forward!

2. Hello Sunshine Smoothie

Good morning! Hello Sunshine Smoothie is here to welcome you to a fantastic day indeed! This brightly sweet smoothie is filled with carrots, pineapples, bananas, and ginger for a sippable beverage that's tangy, creamy, tropical, and just a touch spicy; it's like drinking a sunbeam! Hello Sunshine Smoothie is a delicious greeting indeed!

3. Readers' Favorite Banana Cake

The people know what they are talking about, and we are here to share their tasty knowledge. Readers' Favorite Banana Cake is the obvious winner when it comes to picking a great cake! The masses are raving about this moist, banana-flavored cake topped with a fabulously creamy and tangy lemon-cream cheese frosting. Goodness! Read all about Readers' Favorite Banana Cake and share the good news! Let's give them something good to talk about!

4. Cool Whip® Banana Split

Summer in a bowl? That is definitely what Cool Whip® Banana Split will have you feeling like with every spoonful! Sweet banana slices and juicy strawberries are paired with a couple dollops of frozen, almost-ice-cream-like Cool Whip and a drizzling of decadent chocolate syrup for a bowlful of summertime delight. Cool Whip Banana Split is an all-season way to eat a "healthier" version of this much-loved dessert. Everyone will go bananas for it!

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5. Chunky Monkey Cookies

Based on the perpetually popular Ben and Jerry's® ice cream flavor, Chunky Monkey Cookies are a barrel of fun flavors! Filled with banana chips, chocolate chunks, and crunchy toasted walnuts, these cookies perfectly balance sweet, salty, rich, and fruity flavors in a moist and crispy cookie. Chunky Monkey Cookies only take 45 minutes to make, so you can whip them up whenever you're craving a truly unbelievable twist on classic chocolate chip cookies. Why not serve these with their namesake ice cream for double the taste?

6. Shirley's Bananas Foster

Shirley's Bananas Foster takes a high-class dessert and makes it easy and speedy so you can enjoy it whenever. The bananas are caramelized in a smoky-sweet brown sugar and rum mixture and poured atop refreshingly creamy vanilla ice cream; Shirley truly outdid herself on this! Shirley's Bananas Foster is fruity, crunchy, and decadent in the way all the best desserts should be. Grab a spoon and dig in!

7. Blue-Ribbon Banana Nut Bread

The best part of buying bananas from the grocery store is the inevitable few that will be left uneaten and overly brown. Once you have three such bananas, you're ready to make Blue-Ribbon Banana Bread. This satisfying, moist loaf cake is simple enough to whip up on a Sunday afternoon. Plus, Blue-Ribbon Banana Nut Bread is actually best once it sits a bit, so you can imagine how divine it will be with coffee the next morning.

8. Old-Timey Banana Pudding Cake

In a world where everything is fast, instant, and pre-made, nothing tastes better than something made with love and from scratch! Old-Timey Banana Pudding Cake is the flavor blast from the past that brings good times in the kitchen and deliciousness to your tastebuds! This yummy, moist vanilla cake is the base for nostalgic heaven! It's topped with a creamy, thick, vanilla pudding that is then layered with sweet banana slices, rich, fluffy, homemade whipped topping, and a buttery vanilla wafer crumble. Sounds like something momma would have made, huh? Well, take a moment to reminisce. Sit back and let time slow down for a bit with some Old-Timey Banana Pudding Cake!

9. Golden Banana Pudding

Things look golden when this dish is on the table! Golden Banana Pudding stars a creamy, smooth, fluffy banana pudding that practically glitters with sweetness. Sandwiching this luscious luxury are crunchy, buttery cookies that lend this dish its distinct hue. There are few things more refreshing than a bowl full of Golden Banana Pudding, which is why it is so welcomed at dinner parties and Sunday teatime. This dish might seem simple on the surface, but the taste it creates is deliciously decadent!

10. Island Smoothie

When a trip to the tropics is on your mind, but you're stuck at home in the cool fall weather, this deliciously refreshing drink transports you to your happy place. The Island Smoothie will have you swaying to the imaginary steel drum music in just one sip! Fresh pineapple, frothy coconut milk, sweet bananas, and magnificent mango all blend together perfectly to provide a luscious luau for your taste buds. Garnished with your favorite tropical drink must-haves, the Island Smoothie is a fantastic flavor trip to help satisfy your "I-need-a-vacation-now" feeling for just a little bit longer. It's the yummiest way to keep those winter blues at bay!

11. Southern Banana Bread Pudding

Every word of the name Southern Banana Bread Pudding should get your mouth watering. "Southern" means something rich and wholesome and indulgent, and "bread pudding" means tender cubes of bread soaked in custard and spiced to a fragrant perfection. And of course, the creamy, fruity fun of banana slices all over! The only thing Southern Banana Bread Pudding doesn't indicate from the name alone is the luscious vanilla sauce spread all over. This dish is always full of surprises, the best of which is how amazing each bite tastes!

12. Parlor Banana Split Fluff

The only thing that Parlor Banana Split Fluff is missing is the sweet heavenly aroma of waffle cones when you're near it. But aside from that (which you could easily create at home, too!), it's got all the tastes and yumminess you experience when visiting your favorite local ice cream shop. It's creamy, fruity, and brings you the perfect crunch. It's pretty and pink and makes plenty for sharing! What a scrumptious treat! Grab your spoon and scoop up some delightful Parlor Banana Split Fluff!

13. Best Banana Bread Pancakes

The rich, tropical, creamy flavor of banana is infused into each bite of the Best Banana Bread Pancakes; in fact, that's part of why they are the best! The fact that these fluffy treats are so light and sweet and packed with crunchy walnuts before being pan-fried in butter is the other (very good) reason! The Best Banana Bread Pancakes taste like the best of both worlds, and breakfast will never be the same!

14. Sunday Morning Parfaits

Breakfast on the go is hard enough, but breakfast on the go and with a touch of elegance and class? Nearly impossible! Or rather, it was until Sunday Morning Parfaits came along! Now it doesn't matter whether it's a lazy Sunday morning or a runaround weekday, because indulgence is only 10 minutes (or less) away! Stripes of creamy, tangy vanilla yogurt layered with tropical pineapple, refreshing raspberries, delightful bananas, and a topping of crunchy almonds... yes indeed, Sunday Morning Parfaits have everything you could want for a breakfast that's packed with energy and flavor!

15. Heavenly Banana Pecan Cake

When we first tasted this Heavenly Banana Pecan Cake, all we could picture was a little monkey angel holding a banana, floating down from the heavens... that's pretty nutty, eh? We know, we know. But this little slice-of-heaven is just so tasty and delightful that it can do crazy things like that to a person! It's so moist and rich, with that beloved banana flavor that, well, for lack of a better word, your tastebuds will go bananas for it! And the crispy crunch of the salty pecans embraced by this sweet treat will have you feeling like you're floating on wings of angels. You never know what's going to happen when Heavenly Banana Pecan Cake is on your plate... but we can promise you, it'll be humorously divine!