if you had a lot of leftover bananas...

[Anonymous]

seriously we're talking over a dozen extremely ripe (lots of brown spots, probably only good for one more day) bananas. I've frozen about 6 bananas already. I am just curious if there are any good ideas out there... Most bananas breads and so forth seem to only use 1-2 bananas, in which case it seems like I may just have to throw some of these out.

[Anonymous]

I'd freeze them all. Peeled. And then use them for smoothies or low cal 'ice cream' or banana bread. All good uses for pre-frozen bananas.

[Anonymous]

Slice them and then freeze them. If you freeze them as whole bananas, you won't be able to use them in smoothies. You could also do a marathon baking session - banana bread, cake, muffins, pancakes and waffles, etc. and freeze them.

[Anonymous]

1) Smoothies for desert tonight
2) Slice and freeze remainders.

[Anonymous]

Banana bread or frozen for smoothies!

[Anonymous]

Bananna bread, but in muffin tins and then into the freezer. Makes for super easy breakfast.

FWIW, my recipe calls for 3 banannas.

[Anonymous]

I think banana bread is actually better with frozen bananas. My recipe uses 2-3 per loaf and I usually double it and freeze a loaf.

[Anonymous]

When I make banana bread I add a couple of sliced bananas in addition to the mashed ones, that way you get some chunks in there. I also always make a double or triple batch because my family can easily go through a loaf in a day. Or I take some to a friend or send a loaf home with DS' playdate buddy if the kids help me make it.
It also freezes really well.

[Anonymous]

I would just do huge batches of banana bread and freeze or give away. My recipe (a Betty Crocker version) uses 4 bananas.

[Anonymous]

I always use one banana per batch of pancake batter. So if I use one egg, I use one banana.

[Anonymous]

Best muffin recipe ever.....only changes I make - replace some oil with applesauce and use dark choco chips from Whole Foods.


2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt



3/4 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled, or canola oil

2 eggs



4 very ripe bananas

1-2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 milk



Chocolate chips

Walnuts or pecans


Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable oil spray, or butter the tins.

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

Mash together 4 bananas until very liquid. Add vanilla, one to 2 tsps, depending on how much you like the smell and taste of vanilla. Add milk. Set aside.

Mix together butter and sugar. Beat eggs into the mixture.

Add half of flour mixture to the butter, sugar and egg mix. Then add half of the banana mixture to it. Rest of flour to egg mixture, and then the rest of the banana mixture. Blend together until all ingredients just mixed. Do not overmix, or your muffins will be hard.

Fold in chocolate chips, 1-2 cups, depending on how chocolatey you like your muffins, and then nuts, 1/2 to 1 cup, depending on how nutty you like your muffins. Spoon into muffin tins until they are about 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle muffin comes out clean. (Each oven is different.) Take out of muffin tins as soon as they are cool enough to handle.

[Anonymous]

magnolia bakery's banana pudding. it looks low-brow but it's decadently good.

http://www.food.com/recipe/magnolia-bakerys-banana-pudding-340960

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best muffin recipe ever.....only changes I make - replace some oil with applesauce and use dark choco chips from Whole Foods.


2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt



3/4 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled, or canola oil

2 eggs



4 very ripe bananas

1-2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 milk



Chocolate chips

Walnuts or pecans


Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable oil spray, or butter the tins.

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

Mash together 4 bananas until very liquid. Add vanilla, one to 2 tsps, depending on how much you like the smell and taste of vanilla. Add milk. Set aside.

Mix together butter and sugar. Beat eggs into the mixture.

Add half of flour mixture to the butter, sugar and egg mix. Then add half of the banana mixture to it. Rest of flour to egg mixture, and then the rest of the banana mixture. Blend together until all ingredients just mixed. Do not overmix, or your muffins will be hard.

Fold in chocolate chips, 1-2 cups, depending on how chocolatey you like your muffins, and then nuts, 1/2 to 1 cup, depending on how nutty you like your muffins. Spoon into muffin tins until they are about 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle muffin comes out clean. (Each oven is different.) Take out of muffin tins as soon as they are cool enough to handle.

If you're interested, I made basically this same recipe last night, but with oatmeal in the mix as well. Instead of 1/4 cup of milk you use 1 cup, and mix it with one cup of rolled oats and let it soak. Then use the same ingredients listed above, mix the flour with the sugar, baking soda, baking powder, plus 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp nugmeg. Then to the oatmeal/milk mixture add two eggs, 1 tsp vanilla, and 1/4 cup melted butter, cooled. Then add in the bananas (I used 3, frozen and thawed, which were soooo easy to mix. much easier than fresh bananas). Add the wet to the dry, and then mix in the chocolate chips. Bake same temp and time as above. They came out great, and since they have oatmeal I feel somewhat less guilty serving them to my kids for a quick breakfast. Will probably make again, substituting apple sauce for the butter (and cutting back on the sugar) to make them a tad bit healthier.

[Anonymous]

America's Test Kitchen has a really good recipe using 6 bananas - 5 in the b read and one for garnish. If they are frozen u can thaw them and skip the microwave step and strain the liquid and reduce.

[Anonymous]

Only one banana in my house and it doesn't work half of the time.