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Chances are you have overripe bananas on your counter. Look no further: here are more than 66 banana recipes for how to use them!
Do you often find yourself with overripe bananas? I do, all the time. We eat so many bananas 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.
It’s a popular problem, I think. Did you know you can also FREEZE overripe bananas to use later? Then you can make banana recipes anytime you want!
I love putting bananas in baked goods. One, they’re great for breakfast. Two, they’re a great way to get rid of some of the fat. And three? They taste good! If you have some bananas on your counter that are just waiting to be used, check this list.
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.
Don’t feel like baking right now? FREEZE your overripe bananas to make in banana recipes later!
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 Recipes
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.
Mom’s Best 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.
Triple Chocolate Banana Bread – this EASY banana bread is the BEST RECIPE! It’s my mom’s banana bread recipe with TRIPLE the chocolate!
Peanut Butter Banana Bread with Maple Glaze
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!
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
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 Banana Pancakes with Coconut Maple Syrup
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.
Blueberry pancakes – baked! Way easier to make, and with some added secret banana flavor.
Cream Cheese Banana Muffins
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!
Favorite 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!
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.
What’s your favorite way to use overripe banana???
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!
Last Updated on July 9, 2022
Dorothy Kern
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This is a great round up! I used to throw out old banana and now I save them for smoothies and such, but baked good sound way better! Thanks for the link love to!
OMG so my friends and I had a banana party last night, Â joke–i didn’t see your post in time for it, sadly, but literally hundreds of beautifully overripe bananas died for our epic party, which included banana split pudding, banana bread, banana beer, and banoffee sticky pudding donuts. Talk about a party and a banana round-up with a heavy a-peel!! Hehe! Â
You know me too well, I always buy a bunch of bananas with the intention of making lots of healthy smoothies and then at least 1 or 2 of them end up sitting on the counter till they’re black and rotting – why I don’t freeze them before they get to that point is beyond me, but now I’ll be more motivated to save them so I can make some of these. I mean, who doesn’t love banana bread, but banana cream pie, all those cakes, cupcakes, and ice cream. I want them all!
I buy bananas by the truckload, so many great things to make with them! Â And now I have a whole lot more ideas to try out! Â Thanks so much for including my muffins in this list!
I always have frozen bananas in my freezer. It’s a staple! I mostly use them for banana bread and smoothies. Now I have a lot more options, thanks to you! 🙂
It looks amazzzingggggg! So delicious! Need to try this recipe.
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This is a great round up! I used to throw out old banana and now I save them for smoothies and such, but baked good sound way better! Thanks for the link love to!
I’ll take a slice of each please! 🙂
OMG so my friends and I had a banana party last night, Â joke–i didn’t see your post in time for it, sadly, but literally hundreds of beautifully overripe bananas died for our epic party, which included banana split pudding, banana bread, banana beer, and banoffee sticky pudding donuts. Talk about a party and a banana round-up with a heavy a-peel!! Hehe! Â
I am so doing that! I love that idea and I wish I was at yours! 🙂
You know me too well, I always buy a bunch of bananas with the intention of making lots of healthy smoothies and then at least 1 or 2 of them end up sitting on the counter till they’re black and rotting – why I don’t freeze them before they get to that point is beyond me, but now I’ll be more motivated to save them so I can make some of these. I mean, who doesn’t love banana bread, but banana cream pie, all those cakes, cupcakes, and ice cream. I want them all!
I am the SAME way!! I think “I’ll make bread, no need to freeze them” and then I find them 4 days later at the bottom of the pile…squished.
The peanut butter banana bread with frosting looks yummy! Now if only I can manage to get ripe bananas. We eat them too fast!! Even when I buy more.
Buy avocados at the same time. I always try to keep them separate but the rest of my family forgets and then I get overripe avocados and bananas!
I buy bananas by the truckload, so many great things to make with them! Â And now I have a whole lot more ideas to try out! Â Thanks so much for including my muffins in this list!
I keep seeing banana recipes on Pinterest lately, and now this! I think it’s high time I start baking with more bananas! 🙂
I always have frozen bananas in my freezer. It’s a staple! I mostly use them for banana bread and smoothies. Now I have a lot more options, thanks to you! 🙂
Always love having extra ideas for using up those overripe bananas…it’s great to mix it up and try something new!
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