Some ideas for overripe bananas

Find someone with a blender and invite them over for shakes or smoothies:

Health shakes (read - banana milkshakes)
Take one overripe banana, a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream, a splash of milk, a teaspoon of artificial vanilla flavoring, and a pinch of cinnamon if you wish

Fruit smoothies (read - health shakes)
Take an overripe banana, some fresh strawberries or blueberries (frozen work just as well), add some ice, and blend. Optional ingredients include yogurt and/or orange juice. You have a healthy, refreshing, and delicious drink.


Freeze them to make banana pops
Take very ripe bananas, peel them, slice them through the middle for easier handling (not lengthwise) , wrap them in plastic wrap, then freeze them. When you eat them they taste just like banana pop-cycles or ice cream! The best part is, even though they taste like ice cream, they are just as good for you as if you ate them fresh!

Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
Self explanatory. Spread liberal amounts of peanut butter over soft, white bread, slice or mash bananas and place on top of said peanut butter, squeeze bread together, enjoy.

Smashed Bananas on Toast
(Max's mom's favorite)-- make 2 pieces of toast and butter them liberally. Cut a banana in half so you have two long halves, then slice each half lengthwise so you have 4 long quarters. Put 2 quarters on each piece of toast and mash into the toast with a fork.

Cook them:

Baked Bananas
Coat them in melted butter or margarine, sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon, put on a baking pan and bake for about 20 minutes at 350F or 180C.

Fried Bananas
To fry them coat them with some flour and a small amount of cinnamon, lightly fry in margarine or butter and drizzle with honey.

some of the above ideas courtesy of Cash Money Life

Banana Pancakes
Mash a banana with a fork and stir it into your pancake mix (you may have to reduce some of the water you add to the mix to get a good consistency), then make pancakes as usual

Make Muffins (see separate recipe)

To freeze bananas for later use, peel them and put them in a plastic bag, 2-3 to a bag. They can then be used frozen for smoothies and shakes or thawed to mix into muffins or pancake mix (when you thaw them they will be very mushy and brown)


some of the above ideas courtesy of Cash Money Life