Recipes for overripe bananas

Brown-spotted bananas are sweeter and mash easily, which is what banana bread needs. Frozen ones make smoothies thick and cold.

Keeping it: Peel very ripe bananas and freeze them in a bag. Thaw them for baking and use the liquid too, or blend them frozen.

Recipes that use it

• Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie · uses 2 bananas · 5 min
• Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread · uses 3 large ripe bananas · 1 hr 55 min
• Classic One-Bowl Banana Bread · uses 3 large ripe bananas · 1 hr 45 min
• Peanut Butter Banana Overnight Oats · uses 1 medium banana · 6 hr 5 min
• Green Pineapple Smoothie · uses 1 banana · 5 min
• Strawberry Banana Smoothie · uses 1 banana · 5 min
• Creamy Vanilla Overnight Oats · uses ⅓ cup berries or sliced banana · 6 hr 5 min

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