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Toffee Pecan Banana Bread. Old fashioned, moist delicious banana bread with the addition of crunchy pecans and toffee chips. Perfect for lunchboxes, coffee breaks or a grab and go breakfast.
Mango Spice Banana Bread. A different mango and spice twist on a traditional banana bread. A great addition to packed lunches or as an afternoon snack. Makes a terrific bake sale contribution too.
Banana Cream Cheese Whoopie Pies. Another incredibly delicious way to use over ripe bananas in a treat that everyone will love!
Oatmeal Apple Banana Low Fat Muffins. High in fibre too! A very easy to make recipe for moist, delicious breakfast muffins that uses a minimum of vegetable oil and sugar, although you'll never miss it.
Double Chocolate Banana Cupcakes. An easy to make banana cake batter with added chocolate chips, bakes to moist tender perfection. They're then topped with silky Italian Buttercream Frosting.
This Chocolate Banana Cake is a terrific recipe to use those always present brown speckled over ripe bananas on your counter in an easy to make, delicious dessert.
Sticky Toffee Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Inspired by the famous British dessert, Sticky Toffee Pudding and a banana version of it that I developed, this dense moist cake is the perfect way to use those ripened, speckled bananas on your counter top.
Banana Raspberry White Chocolate Muffins. A banana muffin base recipe that's bursting with pockets of tart raspberry and sweet white chocolate. An outstanding flavour combination.
Banana Orange Cardamom Crinkle Cakes. Incredibly flavourful little cakes with fragrant citrus and spice. Great for lunchboxes and coffee breaks.
Orange Chocolate Banana Bread with White Chocolate Chunks. This ain't your Granny's banana bread! Rich, moist chocolate banana bread with orange citrus accent flavour & chunks of creamy white chocolate baked inside.
Nutella Ganache Banana Cupcakes. The perfect use for over ripe bananas. Moist tender banana cupcakes with rich Nutella glaze. What a great way to beat the mid week blues...and a great way to use those speckled bananas o the counter top too. Great for after school snacks or to pack in lunchboxes, these moist cupcakes...
Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cake. One of our very best recipes to use that never ending supply of over ripe bananas on your kitchen counter.
Apricot Pecan Banana Crinkle Cakes. This is what a I call a cupboard cleaner recipe, sometimes the best combinations come from odds and ends of baking supplies on hand.
Bananas Foster French Toast. A completely indulgent version of French toast topped with a rum, caramel and banana sauce. Terrific for a celebration or Holiday brunch like Easter or Mothers Day. Happy Mother's Day! Spouse had to work on the day so I delivered this breakfast to her and a coworker early this morning. I don't...
Brown Butter Banana Madeleines. Light and tender little banana cakes with the nutty flavour of brown butter. Perfect for lunchboxes or afternoon tea!
Orange Raisin Five Spice Banana Bread. What a wonderful combination of flavours in this heavenly scented banana bread. Another great use for ripe bananas.
Banana Bread Cookies. A soft cookie with a cake-like texture that's so easy to make and with the bonus of added chocolate chips. Maybe the best use for ripe bananas yet!
Strawberry Banana Bread. A good, old-fashioned banana bread recipe with an extra flavourful twist of having fresh strawberry chunks baked right in.
Best Banana Recipes. 25 rescue recipes to use ripe bananas in so many ways, you'll never throw them out again.
Honey Cake with Rum & Butter Bananas. This easy to make rich honey cake is wonderful all on it's own but dress it up with some quickly sautéed rum and butter bananas to take it to another luscious level.
Banana Cake with Brown Butter Frosting. A cross between a butter cake and banana bread, this is an easy to make, moist, tender banana cake with a slightly caramel-y flavoured brown butter frosting. Homemade at it's best!
Chocolate Banana Caramel Walnut Coffee Cake - perhaps the best ever way too use those over ripe bananas you can never seem to get rid of. Turn them into this indulgent brunch or dessert cake.
Honey Banana Snack Cake. The quickest and easiest snack cake ever. All ingredients go into one bowl, then it's just mix and bake! Perfect for packed lunches and after school snacks.
Gluten Free Banana Muffins with Brown Sugar Shortbread Streusel. An easy gluten free banana muffin to add to your GF baking repertoire, or bake as a standard muffin but rely on to make as a gluten free option when needed. Originally published Feb 2015 First let me say that these gluten free banana muffins need...
Caramel Banana Cream Pie. Good old Banana Cream Pie gets the luscious addition of a layer of homemade caramel sauce on top. The result is as completely indulgent as it gets. Bound to become a family favourite recipe.
Mom's Old Fashioned Banana Bread. A 40 year old, unfussy family recipe that turns out great, moist banana bread every time.
Chocolate Caramel Walnut Banana Waffles. An ultimately indulgent weekend brunch dish for special occasions. Or, add a scoop of ice cream and call it dessert!
Walnut Crumble Banana Coffee Cake. An absolutely scrumptious idea for a weekend brunch cake or serve it warm with caramel sauce for Sunday dinner.
Sticky Toffee Banana Pudding. A delicious take on a British classic dessert that also helps use those over ripe bananas on your counter top.
Double Chocolate Pecan Banana Bread. A homemade chocolate version of banana bread made even better with the addition of chocolate chips and crunchy pecans.
Banana Date Spice Muffins. It's very quick and easy to whip up a batch of these tasty muffins and yet another great way to use up those speckled ripe bananas that always seem to be sitting on the counter top.
The last day of school in our neighbourhood means the Dawson's annual summer launch party where guests are welcomed by Joan, Jinji and Lilli, three very gracious hostesses. It's always a fun time for the kids with water slides, trampolines and a bouncy castle all crowded into their beautiful back yard in the center of the city. Parents are...
Chocolate Coconut Banana Pancakes. So easy to make! Sometimes when you throw a few favourite ingredients together something delicious happens.
The Perfect Summer Picnic Basket. A fantastic collection of portable foods to enjoy on the go, or even for just a slow afternoon on the patio this summer. With summer now in full gear, my thoughts inevitably go to weekends at the cottage and of course great food. Our summer home is a great base...
Nine of our absolute best pancake recipes; from basic buttermilk to caramel apple, blueberry cornmeal,piña colada and more!
Our Best Chocolate Dessert recipes from the past 10 years on Rock Recipes. The top ten most popular chocolate dessert recipes with our followers in the past decade.
White Velvet Strawberry Shortcake. An incredibly simple but delicious version of strawberry shortcake on the lightest, most moist homemade white cake you've ever tried.
Strawberry Festival. 50 of our Best Strawberry Recipes. From Strawberry Cake and Strawberry Pavlova to Strawberry Pie and much much more!
Summer No Bake Desserts. Beat the heat with this terrifically tempting collection of no bake cookies, pies and other delectable treats with no oven needed.
Hummingbird Cake is a close cousin to the carrot cake but with bananas, pineapple and crunchy pecans as the stand out flavours. It still loves to be paired with luscious cream cheese frosting though.
Best Coffee Cake Recipes. A delicious and diverse collection of easy coffee cakes to accompany your afternoon cuppa or weekend brunch.
Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake with lemon glaze! This tender cake gets added moistness from a quick cooked glaze that gets brushed on while the cake is still hot. You won't find a more lemony version than this.