If you love bananas, you’ll love these Easy Banana Recipes for banana bread, nice cream, smoothies, and more.
For more ideas about what to make, check out all of our recipes.
Bananas are one of the most affordable fruits, so they tend to find their way into most people’s grocery carts. But then you get home and you don’t feel like just eating a plain banana.
You don’t have to.
This post is filled with great and easy banana recipes, from our banana bread (a recipe I’ve made for over two decades now), smoothies, desserts, and more.
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Easy Banana Recipes
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Homemade banana bread is the most popular way to use up overripe bananas. We add chocolate chips to our recipe, which makes it taste so indulgent and gives it some extra sweetness.
You can add walnuts too, if you prefer, but it’s great with just the chocolate chips.
Chocolate Chip Banana Pancakes
These chocolate chip banana pancakes are made from scratch and loaded with bananas and chocolate chips before baking. The bananas add a creaminess to the batter and you get banana flavor in every bite.
These are a really great make ahead breakfast recipe too. You can make a bunch, freeze them, and then reheat them when you’re hungry.
Chocolate Banana Ice Cream
Chocolate banana ice cream (also known as nice cream) is a dairy-free dessert made from bananas, sweetener, and cocoa powder. Plus, you don’t need an ice cream maker to make it. You just need a blender.
Riper bananas work best in this recipe, so it’s a good way to use up those when you’re not in the mood for banana bread.
Mango Banana Berry Smoothie
The banana in this mango banana berry smoothie gives it such a creamy texture, but it’s the berry flavor that you’re really tasting here.
You can add whatever flavored water or juice you have at home to thin out the smoothie and make it drinkable.
Shark Pudding Cups
These shark pudding cups are a twist on a traditional banana pudding, made with sliced bananas and banana cream pudding mix in individual servings. With a shark gummy candy on top to make them perfect for your Shark Week viewing parties.
If you want, you can leave the gummy sharks off, but don’t leave out the banana slices. They make the entire dessert so banana-forward.
Banana And Nutella Croffle (Croissant Waffle)
Sliced bananas and Nutella are baked in crescent dough to make this delicious croffle (a cross between a croissant and a waffle), which is a popular Korean street food trend.
Traditionally, a croffle is dipped in sugar before cooking, but this version puts the sweetness on the inside.
Which of these easy banana recipes are you going to try first? Let us know in the comments.