10 Warm and Comforting Bread Pudding Recipes

Bread pudding is a classic and comforting dessert that is easy to make and can be enjoyed by everyone. This cozy and satisfying dessert is a delicious way to use up stale bread and reduce food waste! What’s not to love?

1. Banana Bread Pudding

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This Banana Bread Pudding by Lucie Javorska is the creamiest, sweetest, and yummiest way to use up leftover bread. Seriously – bananas and peanut butter? How could that POSSIBLY go wrong? Bonus points: This banana bread pudding is extremely budget-friendly!

2. Butterscotch Bread Pudding

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Fellow carboholics know that bread pudding is just the ultimate way to consume bread. Pieces of bread baked in a sweet, creamy sauce? Yeah, it’s one of the best things ever. This Butterscotch Bread Pudding by Kristy Turner is baked with dried apricots, walnuts, and homemade butterscotch sauce. Then it’s drizzled with even more butterscotch sauce. Carbolicious and compassionate.

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3. Vegan Bread Pudding

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Bread pudding is such a classic and comforting dessert, and this Vegan Bread Pudding by Ivy is just as fantastic. It’s warm, sugary, buttery, and delicious.

4. Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce 

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This Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce by Pavani Nandula is baked with dried fruit, walnuts and homemade butterscotch sauce. The best part of this dessert is that it is 100% vegan and there’s no way you can guess that from tasting it.

5. Pumpkin Bread Pudding

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Enjoy a hefty scoop of warm Pumpkin Bread Pudding loaded up with fall spiced coconut whipped cream! Raisins are mixed into this recipe by Gretchen Price for a more classic bread pudding feel. Pumpkin has a way of complimenting so many different additions, so get creative and make this one your own.

6. Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding With Salted Caramel Sauce 

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The flavors in this Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding With Salted Caramel Sauce by Jenn Sebestyen work perfectly together…apple, cinnamon, maple…nestled all warm and cozy together in a perfect individual serving then drizzled with the creamy, sweet, slightly salty caramel sauce. You’ll want to devour this dreamy bread pudding morning, noon and night.

7. Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding

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This Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding by Kristen Genton is delicious and surprisingly easy to make. Simply chop up some store-bought cinnamon roll dough into little pieces along with an apple, add some non-dairy milk, maple, cinnamon, and vanilla, and bake! This moist, decadent bread pudding is lovely for a sweet brunch or individual ramekins to serve as a dessert with vegan ice cream. Yum!

8. Cherry Tomato and Kale Bread Pudding

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This Cherry Tomato and Kale Bread Pudding by Julia Papanek is such a wonderfully versatile dish. While many bakeries serve it sweet, it is also perfect as a warm, rustic, savory pie. This particular bread pudding has bright cherry tomatoes, crispy kale, crunchy walnuts, a cheesy flavor from nooch, and of course, fluffy bread pieces that tie everything together. Add more bread if you’d like a thicker, more stuffing-like consistency or bake it for longer to get a similar effect.

9. Mason Jar Bread Pudding

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What’s one way to make things better? Cook it in a mason jar! Mason Jar Bread Pudding by Eunice Newton is made to be a dessert, but we don’t blame you if you have it for breakfast.

10. Blueberry and Oat Breakfast Bread Pudding

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This simple, wholesome Blueberry and Oat Breakfast Bread Pudding by Tami Noyes makes stale bread something to wish for! With the subtle cinnamon seasoning and the sweet, crispy top, this one is a breakfast treat.

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