frozen bananas & ginger powder

[coldagain]

A few kilos of sliced frozen bananas, I haz them. And since it's winter and too cold for Better Than Ice Cream! or yummy half-frozen fruit smoothies, I can't figure out what to do with them

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[eglantine_br]

Frozen bannannas are jsut fine for baking with. (At least I have found no difference in them from fresh for that.

[coldagain]

Awesome, thank you! I haven't braved baking with them yet, but will try it now.

[surrealestate]

Baking is the canonical use for frozen bananas, in fact! When they thaw, they are much more easily mushed than before they froze.

Now I want to make chocolate chip banana muffins...

[coldagain]

Thank you, I totally didn't know that. About the baking, that is. The mushiness was kinda obvious. ;)

I have plans to marry a chocolate banana muffin recipe that uses cocoa to a chocolate muffin recipe that uses melted chocolate in the batter; the results should be fabulous, since I hate to add sugar to anything with bananas in it, and the 'cooking' chocolate makes for way too sweet muffins for my taste. If only we had chocolate chips around here, le sigh.

[fuzzilla]

I have a lot of frozen banana slices, too. How long are they good for, BTW? I'd guess mine are 5-6 months old and they're all brown, but perhaps that's normal.

[coldagain]

I think mine went brown about the time they froze; I've had some of mine for over a year, which I know is pushing it, but the ones I half-thawed and ate a few months ago were fine. I think what counts is whether they've been re-frozen, if not they should be fine.

[anonymous]

Re: Too cold for banana ice cream?

[coldagain]

Currently it's cold enough outside that the bananas wouldn't thaw one bit *rubs freezing hands together* so I've been aiming toward foods that are warm, preferably hot. :D All we have locally are actual pumpkins and squashes, no canned ones, otherwise I'd be tempted to try your recipe!

I think the dehydration calls for a dehydrator? Which I don't have.

Will have to try the oatmeal recipe, I've mainly been cooking banana pudding (take pudding, set to cook as described on package minus the sugar and some liquid, add mashed bananas to taste. Yummy!) so it should be a nice change. I hope that 'thawed' taste the bananas get doesn't spoil the taste. Guess I'll have to find out! ;)

Re: Too cold for banana ice cream?

[anonymous]

I can't see the recipe above, but you can dehydrate things in your oven.

Re: Too cold for banana ice cream?

[coldagain]

I'll look into that, thanks for the tip.

[buzzboomsplat]

I'd fry up the bananas with sugar, balsamic vinegar and a little cinnamon and ginger powder.

[coldagain]

If you're sure thawed bananas are fine for frying, I'll definitely try it!

[buzzboomsplat]

why wouldn't they be?

[jsfood]

they might be a bit more prone to turning into mush in the pan, otherwise should be fine :3

[coldagain]

Thank you so much, that is exactly what I wanted to know! (Mostly 'cause we also freeze overripe or bruised bananas when there's too many of them. :D )