The other day Aldi had very ripe bananas on sale for $0.50 per bag. I bought a couple of bags, but I wasn’t in the mood for making banana bread. Instead, I made this simple, sweet, and sugar free dessert. It was nice by itself, but would also be delicious served with ice cream.
- 5 bananas
- 2 Tablespoons butter, melted
- 3 Tablespoons agave nectar
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- Peel bananas, remove any mushy parts, and place them in a buttered square casserole dish. You can cut them into sections if you like.
- Drizzle the butter, agave nectar, and orange juice over top (you don’t need to combine them).
- Sprinkle the cinnamon on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Serve warm.
While I thought that little dish of baked bananas was wonderful, my hungry guys like something with more substance. To use my second bag of bananas I created a banana cobbler which consists of batter in the bottom of a baking dish with the above baked banana recipe on top of it. It turned out great.
- ¾ cup sorghum flour
- ½ cup white rice flour
- ½ cup potato starch
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 6 – 8 ripe bananas
- 2 Tablespoons melted butter
- 3 Tablespoons agave nectar
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- In a large bowl combine the flours, starch, baking powder, xanthan gum, salt, and sugar.
- In a small bowl, combine the milk, eggs, and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix together with a fork or whisk until the dry ingredients are moistened.
- Spread the batter into a buttered rectangular baking dish (about 9 x 13 inches).
- Peel the ripe bananas and cut them into three pieces, placing the pieces on top of the batter.
- Drizzle the melted butter, agave nectar and orange juice over top.
- Sprinkle with ½ teaspoon cinnamon.
- Bake at 350 degrees about 35 – 45 minutes, or until the batter tests done.
This cobbler is low in fat, but it is not dry. However, I loved it eaten warm with milk over top. It’s great by itself, too, and I’m sure it would be even better with ice cream.
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My daughter loves bananas. I will have to try the banana cobbler. She would love it!
Yuuuummmm. I love bananas; and this seems so easy to make!
My son will flip when I try this one
thanks!
I love bananas, but I should become more inventive with recipes including them! These sound great.
Mmmm….I had sauteed bananas tonight. I would never have thought to make a cobbler though! Yum!
What a great idea. I would never have thought of doing this with bananas but now that you did it makes perfect sense. You're so smart! Thank you for sharing this on Friday Foodie Fix.