What are some easy recipes that use ripe bananas?

Move beyond basic banana bread, and use ripe bananas in Better Homes and Garden's recipe for sweet and spicy chilled soup with raspberries and minced jalapeños. Cooking Light features a dip created from bananas, chocolate and hazelnuts, and Chiquita Bananas' recipe for easy Hawaiian banana muffins calls for ripe bananas.

Prepare chilled raspberry chile soup by combining in a blender 4 cups raspberries, 4 peeled and cut-up ripe bananas, 1 cup fresh orange juice, 1 6-ounce carton plain low-fat yogurt and 2 tablespoons corn syrup. Cover and blend together until smooth. Remove seeds and membranes from 2 fresh jalapeño peppers, mince, stir into mixture, and refrigerate for at least one hour. Serve chilled in small bowls garnished with sliced fresh raspberries.

For a graham cracker dip, mash 1 ripe banana with a fork, and combine with 1/2 cup each plain non-fat Greek yogurt and light sour cream, 1/3 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa.

To make Hawaiian muffins, sift together 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon each baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream together 1/4 cup butter and 1 cup brown sugar, and add 2 eggs, mixing after each. Add 3 ripe bananas and 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, and stir in the flour mixture. Fold in 1/2 cup each shredded coconut and chopped pineapple chunks. Pour batter into 12 paper lined muffin cups, and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 to 25 minutes.