Old Fashioned Bread Pudding is a classic comfort dessert made by soaking stale bread in a sweet custard mixture and baking it until golden and soft inside. It’s warm, rich, and often served with vanilla sauce or caramel.
🍞 Old Fashioned Bread Pudding
🧾 Ingredients
🍞 Base
- 6 cups day-old bread (cubed; white bread, brioche, or French bread)
- 2–3 tbsp butter (for greasing or dotting on top)
- ½ cup raisins (optional)
🥛 Custard
- 2 cups milk (or half milk, half cream for richness)
- 3 eggs
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg (optional)
- Pinch of salt
👨🍳 Instructions
1. Prep the bread
- Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F).
- Grease a baking dish with butter.
- Place cubed bread (and raisins if using) into the dish.
2. Make custard
- Whisk eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt until smooth.
3. Combine
- Pour custard evenly over bread.
- Press bread down lightly so it soaks up liquid.
- Let sit 10–15 minutes.
4. Bake
- Dot top with small pieces of butter.
- Bake for 40–50 minutes until golden and set in the center.
5. Serve
- Serve warm or slightly cooled.
- Top with:
- 🍦 Vanilla ice cream
- 🍯 Caramel sauce
- 🥛 Warm vanilla custard sauce
🍽️ Tips for best bread pudding
- Use stale bread—it absorbs custard better without turning mushy.
- For extra richness, replace some milk with cream.
- Let it rest before serving so it sets properly.
- Add chocolate chips or apples for variations.
🔥 Variations
- 🍎 Apple cinnamon bread pudding
- 🍫 Chocolate chip bread pudding
- 🥥 Coconut raisin version
- 🍮 Caramel bread pudding with sauce
If you want, I can also give you a restaurant-style version (like restaurant desserts) or a quick 30-minute microwave mug bread pudding.
