This mouthwatering dessert takes stale banana bread and turns it into a decadent dessert! This banana bread bread pudding perfect way to satisfy your sweet tooth!
Why We Love This Recipe For Banana Bread Bread Pudding
This decadent dessert is a combination of two delicious desserts everyone loves, to create bread pudding with banana bread flavor! It’s the ultimate comfort food! This bread pudding uses simple ingredients you probably already have in your pantry, too (you know you have some overripe bananas on your counter)! It’s got a vanilla rum sauce that’s totally optional but takes this dessert to the next level! You could also serve this as a yummy brunch recipe!
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Key Ingredients for this Recipe
Banana Bread
Banana bread gives this bread pudding its unique flavor! You may use store bought or homemade banana bread. Use day-old bread if you have it. If you have fresh bread, can cut the bread into 1-inch cubes and dry out the banana bread cubes in the oven at 300 degrees F for 20 minutes.
Eggs
Large eggs are used to create a custard for this bread pudding. Eggs act as a thickener in the custard sauce in this sweet treat.
Heavy Cream
Heavy cream brings a rich and delicious flavor to the simple recipe.
Brown Sugar
Brown sugar is used as a sweetener in the custard sauce. You may use light or dark brown sugar. I love the molasses flavor that the brown sugar brings to this delicious dessert. You can substitute white sugar if brown sugar isn’t available.
Kahlua
There’s nothing like a cup of coffee and a slice of banana bread, so Kahlua was the perfect addition to the sauce and the bread pudding. Kahlua is a rum liquor that contains sugar and arabica coffee. If you don’t have Kahlua, you may substitute regular rum.
Vanilla Extract
A little vanilla extract acts like salt does on the savory side: It enhances all the other flavors in this warm dessert!
Milk
I like using a combination of milk and heavy cream for the custard sauce so that the banana bread bread pudding isn’t too rich.
Walnuts
Chopped walnuts are added to the bread pudding to add a beautiful crunch to each bite. If you’re not a fan of walnuts, pecans are a great substitute.
Additional ingredients
Some other optional add-ins include:
- Chocolate chips
- Banana slices
- butterscotch chips
Step by Step Instructions to make this Banana Bread Bread Pudding
- Preheat oven to 350F and generously butter a 12” x 8” baking or casserole dish.
- Add the cream, milk, eggs, sugar and vanilla into a large bowl and whisk to combine.
- Place the banana bread cubes into a single layer in the baking dish and pour the egg mixture over the cubes. Let it sit for 30 minutes to let the bread soak before placing it in the oven.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes until a knife inserted into the center comes out mostly clean and the top is golden brown.
- To make the sauce, combine sauce ingredients in a sauce pan. Over medium heat, add milk, cream, and sugar to a large saucepan. Heat and stir until the sugar dissolves.
- Add your cornstarch and whisk until there are no visible lumps. Continue to heat, stirring frequently, until your sauce thickens.
- Add your vanilla extract and Kahlua and stir to combine. Heat until desired consistency is achieved. Pour the warm sauce over the bread pudding. You could also top a slice of banana bread pudding with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
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Additional recipes to try
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Bananas Foster Cake – if you love banana recipes, you’ll love this bananas foster cake!
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Banana Bread Bread Pudding
Ingredients
6 cups cubed banana bread
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 cup cream
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup kahlua
⅓ cup brown sugar
For the sauce:
– ¼ cup milk
– ½ cup heavy cream
– ½ cup granulated sugar
– 1 tablespoon corn starch
– 2 tsp vanilla
– 1 tablespoon kahlua
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350F and generously butter a 12” x 8” baking dish
2. Add the cream, milk, eggs, sugar and vanilla into a large bowl and whisk to combine.
3. Place the banana bread cubes into the baking dish and pour the custard mixture over the cubes. Let it sit for 30 minutes before placing it in the oven.
4. Bake for 45-50 minutes until a knife inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.
5. To make the sauce, combine sauce ingredients in a sauce pan. Over medium heat, add milk, cream, and sugar to a large saucepan. Heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Add your cornstarch and whisk until there are no visible lumps. Continue to heat, stirring frequently, until your sauce thickens.
Add your vanilla extract and kahlua and stir to combine. Heat until desired consistency is achieved. Pour over bread pudding
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3 Comments
We just made this recipe but left the Kahlua out of the bread pudding and only used it in the sauce. (Did you realize that you included it in the ingredient lists but left it out of the bread pudding instructions?) It turned out great! My only comment might be to soak the bread cubes in a bowl rather than the baking dish, so you could give them a good stir after about 15 minutes. We had some of the custard settled on the bottom and some of the cubes toward the top a bit more dry. Didn’t take away from it at all, though. It was fantastic.
Since the banana bread already has sugar in it (and chocolate!), can I leave out the sugar?
I don’t recommend it