Bananas and strawberries go together perfectly in desserts. Here are a few quick and easy banana dessert recipes to fix for after school snacks.
All you need is five simple ingredients and you can make a variety of simple, but impressive banana desserts.
Ingredients for Quick Banana Dessert Recipes
- Bananas
- Banana pudding (you can even use the Wonderslim low carb, high protein banana pudding for a healthier choice)
- Strawberries
- Cool Whip/Whipped Toppinghttps://www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-proven-benefits-of-bananas#section1
- Vanilla Wafers, pound cake or angel food cake
To prevent the bananas from turning brown toss with lemon juice.
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Easy Strawberry Trifle Recipes with Bananas
Trifles are wonderful desserts. You just add ingredients that go together in a clear container to make wonderful quick easy desserts for any size of gathering.
Mini Strawberry-Banana Trifle
Place a vanilla wafer at the bottom of a whiskey glass. Or you could use an “official dessert glass” but my husband likes whiskey, so it’s what I use.
Layer banana pudding, pudding, bananas, strawberries in the glass
Top with whipped topping. (I crushed the vanilla wafers for a middle layer, but it’s not necessary.)
You can also make this is a large Trifle Bowl if you have one. You will need to double or triple the amount of pudding and ingredients as this will make a dessert for a large crowd.
Libbey Selene Footed Glass Trifle Bowl, 9-inch
Strawberry – Banana Pudding
Layer bottom of a 9×13 clear baking dish with vanilla wafers.
Prepare banana pudding. Fold in chopped strawberries
Top with Sliced strawberries, spread with whipped cream (or leave out, it’s just as good)
Serve and enjoy!
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Strawberry- Banana Poke Cake
Prepare a yellow cake in a 9×13 pan. Poke holes in cake with end of a wooden spoon. Spoon prepared banana pudding over cake. Spread so pudding “oozes” down into the holes.
Top with sliced strawberries and as ALWAYS, served topped with whipped cream.
Banana Split Dessert
This one adds some chocolate to the ingredient listing. Oh, yes, Chocolate!!!
Mix chopped Snickers bars to the banana pudding. Yup, you heard me. chocolate, nuts, caramel.
In a small dessert bowl layer vanilla wafers on the bottom. Add pudding mixture, top with strawberries and whipped cream.
All I can say is “Yum, yum!
Bananas are healthy and full of potassium and 33% of of your daily Vitamin B6 needs. It is true that bananas have natural sugar that some medical professionals warn against eating a banana. But they also contain pectin and resistant starch which may moderat blood sugar levels.
So eat your bananas!
Get creative with some quick banana dessert recipes of your own.
Yum, yum. I’m going to have to try that. It looks and sounds good.