If you’re looking for the best banana dessert recipes, you’ve come to the right place! These are some of the most scrumptious puddings, cakes, breads and more and now they’re right here at your fingertips. Grab your ripe bananas and check out these sweet and delicious ways you can put them to good use.
Best Banana Dessert Recipes
We love bananas in our morning oatmeal or for an afternoon snack but always end up with a few extras. I buy a bunch, thinking we’ll eat them, but always have some that begin to ripen a little too soon.
The great news is, there’s no reason to toss them. They just happen to be the star attraction in all of these delectable and easy banana desserts. We’ve got the classics, like banana bread and homemade banana pudding, but there are tons of other creative and unique recipes that will wow your guests. I mean, who wouldn’t want to try banana egg rolls or banana tacos.
Take a look and you’ll see that we aren’t monkeying around! These banana recipes are the perfect way to satisfy all of your sweet tooth cravings. (Be sure to scroll to the end for some great tips and tricks on buying and storing your bananas).
The Best Banana Dessert Recipes
Banana Pudding Fluff
This banana pudding fluff salad, with a sweet banana flavor and light, fluffy texture, is the perfect delicious dessert for all your summer parties!
These Mini Banana Pudding Bites are filled with the sweet taste of banana pudding in a cute bite size serving. It's the perfect mini dessert for your next party!
This easy Banana Pudding Recipe is a mouthwatering version of everyone's favorite classic dessert. With layers of fresh bananas, creamy pudding and layers of vanilla wafers, this classic recipe is as easy as it is delicious!
This Banana Pudding Poke Cake is the perfect dessert for all your summer gatherings! Made with cake mix, pudding and other easy to find ingredients, it will have everybody will be begging for seconds!
It’s not hard to stick to resolutions with recipes like this! This healthy banana bread is so tasty and moist, you’ll want it for breakfast every morning!
Frozen Banana Pops: The Perfect After School Snack
Need an easy after school snack for your hungry kids? Frozen bananas come to the rescue! With just three ingredients, these frozen banana pops are easy to make and are a kid favorite the whole family will enjoy.
Here’s how to make the best Lotus Biscoff banana bread. It’s quick, easy, moist and tastes incredible. This Biscoff loaf cake is so good with just the right amount of sweetness.
Banana Cake Roll (with cream cheese frosting filling)
This Banana Cake Roll is a soft, homemade banana bread cake wrapped around a delicious cream cheese filling. Each slice of this moist banana bread is better than the last! Top it off with our homemade caramel drizzle.
Banana pudding, step aside — You’ve got some serious competition from this No-Bake Banana Pudding Yum Yum! With its banana pudding-inspired filling sandwiched between two creamy ultra-fluffy layers of deliciousness, this is the stuff no-bake dessert dreams are made of.
These delicious baked banana donuts are a great breakfast, dessert or a quick snack! They’re quick & easy to make and are a healthier alternative to fried donuts.
A cool, creamy No Bake Banana Split Cake is perfect for summer! This easy banana dessert recipe features layers of custard, sweet bananas, pineapple & whipped topping with flavors of your favorite sundae.
Use a simple homemade mix to make this banana walnut snack cake. It only requires, one bowl and it’s done in 30 minutes. It’s a deliciously moist, easy cake recipe with a crunchy walnut topping!
Looking for a warm and comforting dessert? Try this flambeed banana recipe. This easy banana recipe is start with bananas that slowly cooked in a pan until you get a delicious caramel sauce.
Need a quick treat that you and your kids will love? Make this easy Banana Bites snack! With just a few ingredients, this fun stacked finger-food idea is a simple dessert that's easy to make and ready in just minutes.
This banana split fluff recipe is an easy dessert salad packed with pineapple, nuts, bananas, chocolate chips, maraschino cherries, and all your favorite banana split toppings.
These delicious Banana Pudding Brownies are always a surprising delight when brought to events. They're super simple to make and really do have a Banana Pudding flavor!
These Nutella Banana Cheesecake Egg Rolls are a game changer! With fresh fruit, a delicious cream cheese filling, and creamy hazelnut spread, this is the perfect dessert any time of year!
5-Ingredient Breaded Deep Fried Bananas (Banana Empanada)– a quick and easy dish that can be served as a side for feijoada or grilled meats, or as a dessert topped with ice cream. These can be gluten-free, Paleo and Whole 30.
Banana Pudding Dip is an easy creamy dip that can be served with vanilla wafers, graham crackers, and fresh fruit as a no bake dessert recipe that’s a sweet treat everyone will love!
Bananas Foster Upside Down Cupcakes are easy to make upside down cupcakes made with bananas and a nutty, buttery, brown sugar and rum topping, they're a perfect mini dessert for Mardi Gras (aka Fat Tuesday) or any party.
Best Banana Pudding Pound Cake with Amaretto Liqueur is from scratch and has banana pudding, amaretto (almond) liqueur, cream cheese, and Nilla wafers. All the classic banana pudding ingredients in a totally homemade pound cake recipe.
Banana nutella muffins are the ultimate bakery-worthy breakfast treat. These are soft and moist banana muffins with a creamy Nutella center and swirled top!
Who doesn't love a Banofee Pie? In this Banoffee Trifle recipe, you get all the delicious flavours of banoffee but in layers. The dessert makes a gorgeous centerpiece and is ideal for get togethers.
This Eggless Blueberry Banana Bread is perfectly sweet, moist, and full of flavor! Enjoy with chopped nuts or chocolate chips. It makes the perfect breakfast or a delicious dessert.
A soft and moist banana cake filled with crunchy walnuts, coated with vanilla cream cheese frosting and topped with a chocolate ganache drip. It’s a delicious cake perfect for parties or special occasions.
Banana Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is an easy recipe for mouth-watering chocolate cake filled with layers of creamy peanut butter frosting and fresh bananas. This is the perfect cake for any celebration!
No-bake pies are the best! This easy no-bake banana pudding pie is rich, creamy, and full of banana flavor. It’s a 15-minute quick dessert that’s always a hit!
Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie with Vanilla Wafer Crust
This Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie includes layers of chocolate pastry cream, vanilla rum custard, bananas & whipped cream in a buttery vanilla wafer crust.
These banana chocolate spring rolls are my take on a classic Filipino dessert. Tender, sweet banana sits in a syrupy pool of warm Nutella, encased in perfectly crisp filo pastry, dusted with cinnamon sugar.
These easy Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars are a super creamy dessert with a cheesecake filling made with banana cream pudding mix and real banana on top of a decadent crust made with vanilla wafers and butter.
Looking for the old southern style recipe for homemade banana pudding from scratch? This is the original Nilla Baked Banana Pudding Recipe that my mother in law makes!
Ice cream lovers, here’s a tasty recipe for banana chocolate chip ice cream that’s so easy you might be making it all summer long. There’s no churning and no ice cream maker needed.
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles are the tastiest summer treat on a stick. Hard to believe they have no dairy and are made with coconut cream, bananas, and peanut butter. You can feel good about feeding these treats to your kids! (dairy free, gluten free, vegan)
Banana Cake is an amazingly moist cake covered in cream cheese frosting. It’s the perfect use for brown bananas! This cake is sweet, dense flavorful and absolutely scrumptious.
Air Fryer Banana Chips are a healthy, sweet and salty snack that comes together quickly and easily in your air fryer with just three ingredients. Skip the snack aisle and make the best banana chips at home!
Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies – Deliciously soft, thick, and chewy chocolate chip cookies that are LOADED with banana flavour. Perfect for banana lovers!
In this Bananas Foster recipe, sliced bananas are coated in a cinnamon caramel, then flambeed in rum and banana liqueur to create the treat of your dreams!
This version of Bananas Foster is a tropical twist on the classic New Orleans dessert. Layers of caramelized bananas, shredded toasted coconut, and crunchy macadamia nuts make a delicious sauce for ice cream.
With the price of fresh produce these days, it’s important to buy and store bananas properly to extend the shelf life. They often have a shorter life than other fruits, but there are things you can do to help get a few extra days out of them:
Color: The best time to buy bananas are when there’re pale yellow with the slightest hint of green on the ends. If the green runs down past the ends, it’s underripe. Bananas starting to show brown spots are beginning to ripen and will need to be eaten soon.
Storing: When you get them home, store bananas at room temperature away from direct sunlight. Also try to avoid warm areas in the kitchen, like near the oven or stove.
Wrap the ends: Here’s a fun trick many people don’t know about. Wrap the stem end of bananas in plastic wrap and you’ll slow down the aging process.
Treating sliced bananas: Once you slice into a banana, it’ll begin to turn brown quickly. To slow this down, brush a little fresh lemon juice on the exposed end.
Freeze them: If you know you won’t use them before they go bad, place them in a freezer bag and freeze for up to several weeks. Be sure to thaw them before you try to peel them, because otherwise it’s next to impossible.
If you're looking for the best banana dessert recipes, you’ve come to the right place! These are some of the most scrumptious puddings, cakes, breads and more and now they're right here at your fingertips.
Ingredients
Banana Pudding Cupcakes
Easy Banana Pudding Poke Cake
Banana Bread without Sugar
Frozen Banana Pops
Biscoff Banana Brad
Banana Caramel Layer Cake
Best Toffee Banana Layer Cake
Banana Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Filling
No-Bake Banana Pudding Yum Yum
Easy Banana Baked Donuts
No Bake Banana Split Cake
Banana Walnut Snack Cake
Flambeed Banana
Banana Bites Nilla Wafer Dessert
Banana Blondies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Banana Split Fluff
Instructions
Choose your favorite banana dessert recipe.
Gather all the ingredients needed to make it.
Make your delicious dessert and enjoy!
The nutrition information provided is an estimate and can vary based on cooking methods and ingredients used.