It’s the go-to lunchbox filler, and after-work snack, the banana is a versatile and filling fruit that makes for the best banana desserts. Take your love for it to the next level with these decadent banana recipes that go beyond the classic banana spilt. Will you layer your sliced bananas in a trifle like Nik Hill’s banoffee version? Or bake them in a white chocolate pudding? How about turning your soft banana slices into sweet and crispy coconut and caramel fritters? Decisions, decisions, decisions.
These recipes with bananas range from easy banana recipes to desserts that solve the mystery of what to do with ripe bananas (or, that is overripe bananas). In this collection, you’re bound to find a banana recipe to suit your current mood.
Here are our best banana recipes.

Coconut sundae with pineapple caramel and macadamia nuts

Char-grilled banana splits with salted peanut caramel

Caramelised banana vol-au-vents with salted caramel and vanilla ice-cream
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Banana cake with molasses-sugar and sesame

Mango sundaes with salted-caramel ice-cream

Pan-fried bananas with salted maple caramel and vanilla ice-cream

Puffed pancake with honey-malt ice-cream and bananas

White chocolate and banana baked rice puddings

Cameroonian spiced banana gâteau

David Thompson’s grilled sticky rice with banana paste

Mark Best’s best-ever banana bread

Shaun Quade’s bananas in rosemary honey, puffed rice honeycomb and milk chocolate

Bread and butter pudding with banana and butterscotch sauce

Spiced banana and walnut slice with mascarpone frosting

Black rice and coconut pudding with caramel bananas
