Bread Pudding Recipe (2024)

This homemade bread pudding recipe is just like Grandma used to make!

This recipe is made with sweet bread and raisins soaked in an easy custard and baked until golden.

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What is Bread Pudding?

Bread pudding is an easy dessert recipe. There are different types of bread pudding; this version is similar to French toast in flavor and texture with a sweet caramel sauce.

  • Simple ingredients: Stale bread, eggs, dairy, and butter are mixed with spices. Simple and delicious.
  • Versatile: This version of bread pudding welcomes additions like chopped apples, egg nog in place of dairy. Swap the raisins for other dried fruit like apricots or dried cranberries.
  • Brunch or Dessert: We most often enjoy bread pudding for dessert with ice cream, but it can be served for brunch as well.

Ingredients for Bread Pudding

Bread – Use any variety of thickly sliced stale or day-old bread like Sara Lee Artisano bread. Dry bread cubes will soak up the egg mixture. Any bread will work but we love French bread, braided bread, or brioche. If your bread is fresh, dry it in the oven or let it sit out uncovered overnight.

Custard Mixture – Large eggs, and half and half (or light cream) are whisked with brown sugar and spices. In addition to cinnamon, you can add a pinch of cloves, nutmeg, or allspice for a more fragrant and spicy dish. Pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice? Yes, please!

Variations – Bread pudding is a versatile ‘base’ for other add-ins like walnuts, pecans, coconut, cranberries, diced apples, or chocolate chips.

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How to Make Bread Pudding

  1. Whisk eggs, cream, brown sugar, and spices per the recipe below.
  2. Toss with the bread cubes and gently stir in raisins.
  3. Place mixture into a casserole dish and drizzle with melted butter.
  4. Bake until a knife inserted in the center is clean.

Sauce for Bread Pudding

While bread pudding is often served with vanilla sauce, we love a quick and easy homemade caramel and a scoop of vanilla ice cream of course. Feel free to add some rum to make a rum sauce.

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Bread pudding can be served warm or room temperature.Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days or frozen for up to 3 months. Freeze in single serving size to make it easy to thaw and enjoy!

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This easy Bread Pudding recipe is filled with raisins and drizzled with an easy homemade caramel sauce.

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Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour

Total Time 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes

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Servings 9 servings

Ingredients

For the Bread Pudding

  • 10 slices thickly sliced bread stale or slightly dried
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 ¾ cups half and half or light cream
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ cup raisins
  • 2 tablespoons butter melted

For the Sauce

  • cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup butter
  • ¼ cup heavy cream

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter an 8-inch baking dish.

  • Cut the bread into 1-inch cubes. If the bread is fresh, place it on a baking sheet and bake for 4 to 6 minutes (or until slightly dried). Cool completely.

  • Meanwhile, in a medium bowl whisk together eggs, cream, sugars, vanilla, and cinnamon.

  • Pour the egg mixture over the bread. Add raisins and toss lightly with your hands. Transfer the bread mixture to the prepared baking dish. Drizzle butter over top.

  • Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

  • Meanwhile, for the sauce, combine the brown sugar and butter in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat while whisking and let boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and whisk in heavy cream. Allow to cool slightly.

  • Drizzle the caramel sauce over the baked bread pudding and serve warm.

Notes

Store leftover bread pudding in the fridge in a covered container for up to 3 to 4 days. You can freeze it for up to 2 to 3 months.

You can replace the cream with egg nog.

Nuts are a great addition to this recipe.

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Nutrition Information

Calories: 191 | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 61mg | Sodium: 171mg | Potassium: 171mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 155IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 51mg | Iron: 1.3mg

Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

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FAQs

What is bread pudding sauce made of? ›

A traditional bread pudding sauce is made from just a few simple ingredients: milk, sugar, vanilla extract and cornstarch. Variations of vanilla bread pudding sauce includes rum sauce, bourbon sauce, caramel sauce and lemon sauce.

What are the 3 types of pudding? ›

Puddings made for dessert can be boiled and steamed puddings, baked puddings, bread puddings, batter puddings, milk puddings or even jellies. In some Commonwealth countries these puddings are known as custards (or curds) if they are egg-thickened, as blancmange if starch-thickened, and as jelly if gelatin-based.

Is bread pudding supposed to be soggy? ›

A good bread pudding needs to be moist -- it is made from custard, after all -- but it should not be anywhere close to runny. Luckily for you, we have a few tips and tricks to share in order to make sure your bread pudding turns out moist and delicious, not wet and runny.

How is pudding made from scratch? ›

Steps
  1. In 2-quart saucepan, mix sugar, cornstarch and salt. Gradually stir in milk. ...
  2. Gradually stir at least half of the hot mixture into egg yolks, then stir back into hot mixture in saucepan. Boil and stir 1 minute; remove from heat. ...
  3. Pour pudding into dessert dishes. Cover and refrigerate about 1 hour or until chilled.

How do you know when bread pudding is done? ›

Bake about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Another way to judge whether the pudding is fully baked, is to gently press down on the center of the pudding. If any custard comes up to the top, the pudding needs to be baked a little longer.

Why does my bread pudding taste like egg? ›

Bread pudding's magic is how the old, dried bread can be re-invigorated with a mixture of milk, eggs, and sugar that it soaks up like a sponge, but when the eggs aren't properly beaten you have a separation of the beaten yolk from the beaten whites which gives you the scrambled egg look and flavor.

Are you supposed to eat bread pudding hot or cold? ›

Place the cubed bread pieces in a bowl and leave the bowl on the counter uncovered for 1 day. Bread pudding can be served warm, room temperature, cold.

What is pig pudding? ›

Popular variants of the recipe consist of pork meat and fat, suet, bread, as well as oatmeal or pearl barley formed into a large sausage—also known as 'groats pudding' and are very similar to a white pudding, whereas other versions of the recipe contain a high percentage of offal such as lung and liver and can more ...

What do Brits call American pudding? ›

American puddings are closer to what the Brits would call "custard." A British pudding is a dish, savory or sweet, that's cooked by being boiled or steamed in something: a dish, a piece of cloth, or even animal intestine.

What is the most common pudding flavor? ›

It tastes sweet, and comes in many flavors. The most common kind of pudding is chocolate. Some other kinds are vanilla, butterscotch, banana, and pistachio.

Is it OK to leave bread pudding out overnight? ›

Yes, you absolutely can.

Do you eat bread pudding with a spoon or fork? ›

Advice: Ditch the fork – it's completely superfluous – and dig in with the spoon!

Should I cover my bread pudding when baking? ›

Before the inside of your pudding is set, the outer layer can become burnt and dry, which is why covering bread pudding during baking is the best move.

What does bread pudding contain? ›

Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines. It is made with stale bread and milk or cream, generally containing eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or suet and, depending on whether the pudding is sweet or savory, a variety of other ingredients.

What ingredients are in instant pudding? ›

SUGAR, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE AND TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (FOR THICKENING), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES (PREVENT FOAMING), ARTIFICIAL COLOR, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6, BHA (PRESERVATIVE).

What is the main ingredient in white pudding? ›

White pudding is broadly similar to black pudding, but does not include blood. Modern recipes consist of suet or fat, oatmeal or barley, breadcrumbs and in some cases pork and pork liver, filled into a natural or cellulose sausage casing. Recipes in previous centuries included a wider range of ingredients.

What are the ingredients in great value pudding? ›

Nonfat Milk, Water, Sugar, Food Starch - Modified, Canola Oil, Contains Less Than 1 Percent Of: Calcium Carbonate, Artificial Flavors, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Disodium Phosphate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Citric Acid, Color Added.

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