Vegan Banana Recipes

Bananas are one of my favorite plant-based baking staples— naturally sweet, budget-friendly, and incredibly versatile. If you’re looking for recipes to use your ripe bananas then enjoy these 20 vegan banana recipes. Everything from banana bread to french toast casserole, banana overnight oats, muffins, smoothies and more.

Vegan French Toast Casserole

Bananas form the base of this overnight vegan french toast casserole, and we love it as a crowd-pleasing breakfast or brunch. I make it almost every year over the holidays and love that it can be made at night and ready to bake in the morning.

Topped with a crunchy praline topping, this french toast casserole is slightly indulgent and so delicious. If you like french toast, you’ve gotta try this one.

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Vegan Banana Muffins

A simple banana muffin that’s great for breakfast or as an afterschool snack. The best part about these banana muffins is that they are bursting with banana flavor, especially if you use very ripe, almost black, bananas.

You can add chocolate chips, raisins or nuts!

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Baked Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

This baked apple cinnamon oatmeal is sweetened with both banana and soft baked apples. It’s a casserole version of oatmeal, that’s great for a crowd but simple enough for weekday mornings. We love baked oatmeal so much that we even served my original baked oatmeal the morning of our wedding!

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Chai Smoothie

If you love the flavor of chai tea, then you’re going to want to try this chai smoothie! Made with a handful of ingredients, including a homemade chai spice blend that’s used to season this smoothie, but can also be used in muffins and in homemade chai tea.

I love this smoothie when I want the warming flavor of a nice spiced tea, but the refreshing taste of a smoothie. Great for breakfast or a snack.

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Banana Bread Overnight Oats

I’m pretty sure I would like any flavor of overnight oats, but especially this banana bread flavor! With a similar flavor to banana bread, and 14 grams of protein and fiber per serving. They are a hearty, filling way to enjoy the taste of banana bread for breakfast.

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Tropical Kale Smoothie

I love adding banana to smoothies as they help to thicken smoothies and also add in a neutral, natural sweetness. The frozen banana and pineapple in this kale smoothie completely masks the taste of the kale. Filled with healthy fats, protein and leafy greens.

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Cranberry Smoothie

Just like in the above kale smoothie, frozen banana adds both body and natural sweetness in this cranberry smoothie, which helps to balance the tartness.

I know cranberries are considered a winter food, but I like buying them in bulk when I can find them and placing them in the freezer to use in this cranberry smoothie and my roasted cranberry kale salad.

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Baked Oatmeal with Fresh Berries

I call this my OG baked oatmeal recipe. It’s one of the earliest recipes that I posted on this website and has been a hit with so many readers in the decades since.

Sliced ripe banana adds natural sweetness and creaminess to this baked oatmeal. Serve this the way that we love it, warm with ice cold almond milk on top and plenty of fresh berries. It’s so good!

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Baby-Led Weaning Banana Pancakes

Bananas are the base of so many of my baby recipes as I try to limit as much added sugar as possible in my recipes and these 3-ingredient baby-led weaning pancakes use rolled oats and ripe bananas to make healthy, yummy pancakes that are perfect for baby-led weaning, kids, and adults!

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Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

My kids love these banana chocolate chip muffins and are probably the recipe I make the most whenever I have ripe bananas around. They are a must for snacks, meal prep, breakfast or dessert.

Lower sugar than most other banana recipes and I add in some chocolate chips for additional sweetness!

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Snickers Shake

I’m obsessed with this chocolate peanut butter smoothie, also called the Snicker’s Shake or date shake in my house. This vegan milkshake tastes just like a snickers shake– the dates taste like caramel, the peanut butter adds so much flavor and the frozen bananas make this taste like a milkshake.

If you’ve ever had banana ‘nice cream’ then you know how creamy frozen bananas can taste like ice cream.

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Carrot Cake Banana Bread

I make this carrot cake banana bread almost every year for Easter. It’s the perfect combination of two of my favorite cakes– carrot cake and banana bread!

Studded with shredded carrots, walnuts, raisins and plenty of ripe bananas.

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Chocolate Banana Popsicles

Once I discovered that frozen bananas can taste like ice cream when frozen and pureed, I knew I could a popsicle using frozen bananas. These chocolate banana popsicles taste just like a fudgesicle!

A kid-friendly dessert you can feel GOOD about. Dairy-free and only 5 ingredients!

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Ginger Pear Smoothie

Another healthy green smoothie recipe, this one using ginger, spinach, pear and cinnamon. As with the kale smoothie, the frozen banana helps to mask any bitterness from the spinach.

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Tropical Trail Mix Breakfast Cookies

I love the idea of breakfast cookies and these are my tropical trail mix version, with cashews, coconut, dried cherries and almond flour. A much healthier cookie and perfect for breakfast. Lightly sweetened with ripe bananas, packed with fiber and nutrients and perfect for breakfast or on-the-go snacking.

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Blueberry Muesli

We love muesli in my house. After discovering muesli when traveling in New Zealand over a decade ago, we’ve since made it at least once a month as a healthy, vegan and gluten-free breakfast that’s packed with fiber and nutrition, especially when topped with fresh blueberries.

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Grilled Banana Sundaes with Chocolate Hazelnut Sauce

Who needs ice cream when you’ve got bananas!? These grilled banana sundaes are exactly like they sound. Halved bananas are grilled until caramelized, then topped with whipped coconut cream, homemade chocolate hazelnut sauce and chopped nuts (and of course, a cherry on top!)

These dairy-free sundaes are so incredibly delicious, you will want them over and over again this summer!

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Kiwi Smoothie Bowl with Hokey Pokey Granola

These kiwi bowls were inspired by our trip to New Zealand, a high-protein smoothie bowl topped with plenty of fresh fruit and hokey pokey granola.  If you’ve never heard of hokey pokey before, I hadn’t either until our trip.

After researching more when we got home, I realized that hokey pokey is basically sugar. Fantastic. No wonder it was so delicious! While this isn’t the healthiest granola I’ve made (that would be my low sugar granola!), it’s arguably the best. 

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Chocolate Cherry Milkshakes

I love these creamy chocolate milkshakes, made with frozen bananas and frozen cherries, then topped with a homemade magic shell topping. If you’ve never made magic shell, it’s so easy to make and only requires two ingredients– chocolate and coconut oil! It’s also what I use on my vegan vanilla milkshake.

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Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie

I originally created this pie for a pregnant-with-twins girlfriend who was craving sweets, sweets, and more sweets but was very mindful of the ingredients she consumed. Yup, totally get it. 

So, after a few tries in the kitchen, I recreated one of her favorite desserts, the banana cream pie. Made from mostly whole sources like ripe bananas, coconut, peanut butter and dates.

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