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Chances are, you have a few old bananas on your counter. Look no further: here are more than 66 banana recipes for how to overripe bananas!
Do you often find yourself with overripe bananas? I do, all the time. We eat so many that I tend to buy huge amounts. And because you can’t buy perfect bananas (they’re usually too green), I have to let them sit and ripen. And then they’re all ripe at the same time and I need to eat 12 bananas or they go bad.
Sure, bananas are great to eat for breakfast but baking with them is my favorite way to use them! I have so many recipes with overripe bananas on this website, from banana bread to banana bars to banana cake! Overripe bananas are also great in place of eggs in recipes or mashed to make banana ice cream or spread over greek yogurt or added to pancake batter.
How to freeze overripe bananas
Have some bananas on your counter that have turned brown spotted? My mom calls them “tired” bananas and they’re perfect for baking.
Just pop them in the freezer in their peels. They’ll turn a dark brown color – that’s okay. To thaw, just leave on the counter on a plate. They’ll be mushy when thawed, but cut open the top and squeeze out the banana to make cakes, bread and more.
Banana Bread is such a delicious and easy way to use up overripe bananas! Usually bread uses 2 or 3 bananas and the more brown spotted the better. You can also make any of these into gluten-free banana bread by swapping 1:1 GF all-purpose flour.
Banana Bread Recipe
The best banana bread recipe: it's my mom's recipe and is great for using overripe bananas. It's easy and so delicious.
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread is a delicious breakfast recipe everyone loves! My mom’s banana bread recipe is filled with chocolate chips for the breakfast your kids will want to eat.
This Easy Peanut Butter Banana Bread is peanut butter infused banana bread topped with a maple glaze – three things that truly belong together!
Banana Nut Bread Recipe
The BEST Banana Nut Bread with pecans is an easy recipe adapted from my mom's banana bread. It's filled with chopped pecans and cinnamon and topped with a cinnamon glaze!
Avocado Banana Bread is an easy delicious banana bread recipe that uses avocado instead of oil. This bread is moist and perfect without butter and is so yummy with chocolate chips.
Easy Strawberry Banana Bread – a banana bread made from pancake mix and filled with tons of strawberries and a strawberry glaze on top. Perfect for brunch!
Everything you love about my banana bread recipe with just a few reductions and ingredient swaps – no strange ingredients just a banana bread with less fat and processed sugar.
Cinnamon Sugar Zucchini Banana Bread – an easy banana bread recipe with zucchini and a crunchy cinnamon sugar topping baked right in. This is the perfect banana bread recipe!
Banana is perfect in breakfast recipes – from bars to cookies to coffee cake. It’s so easy to add an overripe banana to almost any baked good.
Banana Breakfast Bars Recipe
An easy, fast, healthy breakfast or snack! These banana breakfast bars are a cross between a granola bar and a banana blondie! Banana Breakfast Bars are an easy breakfast or snack with real ingredients and flavor. They’re a copycat of the bars you buy, but homemade so they’re better for you and cheaper too!
Buttermilk makes pancakes super fluffy and perfect! These Buttermilk Banana Pancakes add some extra flavor with mashed and sliced banana and they’re all topped off with coconut maple syrup.
Banana Breakfast Cookies are a healthy banana cookie with oatmeal and mini chocolate chips! Eat cookies for breakfast – they're portable for on-the-go.
Cream Cheese Banana Muffins – this EASY banana muffins recipe is my favorite and it’s FULL of a sweet cream cheese mixture! Everyone loves these muffins!
Banana Bread Muffins are so easy to make! This recipe is my favorite banana bread recipe made into banana nut muffins, perfect for breakfast or brunch!
Banana Bread Coffee Cake – this EASY coffee cake recipe is full of banana bread flavor with a nutty streusel on top! It’s everyone’s favorite breakfast or brunch recipe!
Anyone can make this Easy Banana Cake recipe! Layer cakes that start with cake mix are so easy. This easy cake recipe has caramel filling and is frosted with cream cheese frosting!
Banana Cookies are so good and a fun way to use up those overripe bananas!
Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies are the absolute best way to use up those old bananas. These cookies are soft, chewy and full of chocolate chips and banana flavor!
These Chocolate Chip Banana Bars are SO easy to make and have just 4 ingredients. They’re great for using up overripe bananas! Add some chocolate and you have a delicious banana dessert recipe.
Banana is fantastic in pudding and pie – while you want more ripe bananas for these, they’re still a great way to use them!
Magnolia Bakery Banana Pudding Recipe
This is our favorite easy banana pudding recipe. It's a famous banana pudding made with condensed milk and pudding mix and lots of Nilla Wafers! This is the only banana pudding recipe you need and it's so good! #recipe #easy
This Old Fashioned Banana Pudding Pie Recipe starts with a cookie crust and has homemade pudding, cream cheese whipped cream and lots of bananas and it’s totally no bake!
No Bake Banana Pudding Dream Dessert – this easy dessert lasagna recipe is made with BANANA pudding! It’s layered with no bake cheesecake and a Golden Oreo Crust!
A from scratch pudding pie filled with coconut vanilla pudding, bananas, and coconut whipped cream! It’s the marriage of two amazing pies: coconut cream and banana cream pie!
This Banana Pudding Cheesecake is made with a vanilla wafer crust, loads of mashed and sliced bananas, and banana pudding mix! It’s got the best banana pudding flavor you could have in a cheesecake and it’s completely addicting!
Banana Chocolate Chip Shortbread Icebox Cake – this easy NO BAKE recipe is also gluten-free! Layers of cookies and banana pudding – the best party dessert.
Banana Cheesecake Bars with Golden Oreo CrustGet The Recipe
Over 66 Overripe Banana Recipes – tons of ideas for baking with banana that’s not just banana bread! Banana cake, cookies, pie and unique banana recipes too!
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I was given 3 cases of bananas. Some are VERY ripe and some aren’t. What can I make with all these bananas that I can freeze and have for later?????? HELP! !!!
Bread works best for freezing, or muffins! Or, just freeze the bananas themselves, then defrost on the counter/in the fridge before you want to use them! The skins will turn brown but they’ll be perfect for baking.
Love anything with bananas! Pinning this collection! (I actually have some frozen bananas I forgot about until now, so finding this collection was very timely).
I love, love, love bananas. ย I eat one every day. ย Even so, by the time the week is up, several of them are overripe and I end up freezing them! ย Consequently, I have way too many bananas in my freezer! ย Your post is a great round-up of ideas for using my frozen bananas! ย Thank you – I’m a happy girl!
I just love to bake, however I will eat the whole thing. Love you small recipes
I was given 3 cases of bananas. Some are VERY ripe and some aren’t. What can I make with all these bananas that I can freeze and have for later?????? HELP! !!!
Bread works best for freezing, or muffins! Or, just freeze the bananas themselves, then defrost on the counter/in the fridge before you want to use them! The skins will turn brown but they’ll be perfect for baking.
Love anything with bananas! Pinning this collection! (I actually have some frozen bananas I forgot about until now, so finding this collection was very timely).
Thanks for the pin!
I love, love, love bananas. ย I eat one every day. ย Even so, by the time the week is up, several of them are overripe and I end up freezing them! ย Consequently, I have way too many bananas in my freezer! ย Your post is a great round-up of ideas for using my frozen bananas! ย Thank you – I’m a happy girl!
As a girl with more than a few bananas that desperately need to be used up or frozen, this post makes me very happy.
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