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20 bonza banana recipes (that go beyond bread)

It's national banana day on Sunday, so here are 20 fruit-based recipes to make instead if, like us, you can't bear to revisit the lockdown banana bread trend.

20 recipes
Crepes with buttered bananas and condensed milk.
EASY

Adam Liaw's crepes with buttered bananas and condensed milk

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Peanut butter cream pie.
EASY

Peanut butter and banana cream pie

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
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Caramel bananas with dulce de leche 'nice-cream'

  • 2 hrs +
  • Caroline Velik
Hot buttered banana pudding.

Hot buttered banana pudding

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Dan Lepard's triple ginger banana muffins.
EASY

Triple ginger banana muffins

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Helen Goh's next-level banana cake with coffee caramel.

Banana, coffee and cardamom bundt cake with coffee caramel

  • Helen Goh
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Banana, rhubarb and yoghurt cake with pistachios and halva.

Banana, rhubarb and yoghurt cake with pistachios and halva

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
A slab of banana cake with cream cheese icing and swirls of optional miso caramel.

Banana cake with cream cheese icing and miso caramel

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Two-ingredient bikkies.
EASY

Banana muesli biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's sweet spin on spring rolls.
EASY

Hawaiian banana spring rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Peanut butter panna cotta with caramelised banana.

Peanut butter panna cotta with caramelised banana

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Old-school redux: Banana fritters with cinnamon chocolate sauce.

Banana fritters with cinnamon chocolate sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Banoffee pie meets tarte tatin.

Banoffee pie tarte tatin

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Danielle Alvarez's milk-soaked cake decorated with soft Swiss meringue and dulce de leche.

Banana, caramel and rum tres leches cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw's healthier baked banana and pistachio splits.
EASY

Baked banana split recipe with yoghurt, ice cream and pistachios

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Banana cheesecake with toffee shards.

Baked cheesecake recipe with banana and toffee

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Bananas in coconut milk.
EASY

Bananas in coconut milk

  • < 30 mins
Dan Lepard recipe - Chocolate banana cake
EASY

Chocolate banana cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Neil Perry's banana caramel crumble.

Banana caramel crumble

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Banoffee pie in frozen form.

Vegan frozen banoffee pie

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/20-bonza-banana-recipes-that-go-beyond-bread-20220430-h23gff.html