This easy banana bread pudding recipe is so amazing!! Homemade dessert or brunch casserole made with overripe bananas and made with a loaf of bread. You have to try this recipe for your family or to bring to a potluck, I assure you there won’t be any left to take home!
I recently decided to figure out a really easy bread pudding recipe because I had it at a restaurant and forgot just how much I loved it! I started with a caramel apple bread pudding, and now here to show you how to make an easy banana bread pudding that may have surpassed the yumminess of the caramel apple! (affiliate links present)
Banana Bread Pudding
We buy bananas like they’re going out of style! I can’t bear to throw any out if they aren’t eaten so I’ve created this and other overripe banana recipes to share. The longer they sit the sweeter they get for sure. For this one we want to keep them pretty yellow, but not green at all. They will go inside to get fruit in every single bite.
You can see the color I usually use down here. Fresh fruit bread pudding is amazing. I have used pie filling before during the Winter months but when summertime gets closer I can find cheaper produce in season so I go for that.
Easy Homemade Bread Pudding
Of course occasionally they become overripe and as to not let them go to waste I often make coconut banana bread out of them. When we have yellow ripe bananas, this banana bread pudding recipe is a great way to use them in this incredible dessert.
First you are going to use a loaf of french bread or I have even used a loaf of bread. For both I typically wait a few days after buying it to use because you don’t want the bread to be really soft.
This is way easier than you might think. For years I enjoyed it every once and a while at restaurants but after I figured this out we make it pretty often, and year round.
How to Make Homemade Bread Pudding
Time needed: 1 hour
Banana Bread Pudding Recipe
- Prepare ingredients
Slice bread into cubes about 1.5 inch squares as you see above. In a bowl add other ingredients and whisk together.
- Soak bread
Put cubed bread in a large mixing bowl with milk so they can soak it up.
- Fold ingredients
Gently fold together your egg and sugar mix into your bread bowl. Then slice bananas and gently fold those in too so they don’t break apart.
- Bake
Pour banana bread pudding mix into greased 9×13 inch pan, spread out evenly across pan. Put into preheated oven at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until egg has solidified.
- Cool
Take pan out and put on a cooling rack for 15 minutes or more before slicing so it can solidify.
This is what it should look like after it has cooled a bit. It will continue to cook a bit when you take it out in the pan. You want this so it stays really moist but the egg is cooked and safe to eat.
Pour the melted butter into your bundt pan and then use another banana and cut slices into your bundt pan holes so they come out on the top of your bread pudding (makes it pretty).
You can use another pan or dish instead and the banana bread pudding recipe is the same, just may take a bit longer to bake but no biggie. If you want to take this banana bread pudding recipe over the top add 1/2 cup of caramel bits or even chocolate chips.
How to Make Bread Pudding with a Loaf of Bread
- OH MY goodness is this a good addition.
- Now add your sugar/egg mixture into your bread/milk mixture and gently fold together.
- Fill your baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until the sides begin to shrink in and egg is no longer runny.
- Spray with non stick spray first.
- Take out when knife inserted into the center comes out clean. It will be very moist but shouldn’t come out with raw ingredients on it.
- I would allow it to sit on a cooling rack, but in the pan for 15 to 20 minutes in order to solidify more before slicing and serving warm.
If you want extra sweetness you could serve with ice cream on top. Leftovers can be moistened with milk and sugar (just a sprinkle) on the top before microwaving for about 1 minute.
Easy Banana Bread Pudding Ingredients
- Bread – can use day old french bread or a loaf of bread with thick slices (like Sara Lee Artesano)
- Overripe bananas – not too brown
- Eggs and milk is best if 2% or whole
- Sugar, vanilla and cinnamon just a bit if you like
- Caramel bits – optional but really good
- Serve with vanilla or banana flavored ice cream is amazing too
- Large bowl to whisk it all together
Yes and no. I have used both, you just want it to not break apart. You can just use a fresh loaf as you see here (as long as they’re thick slices). Or leave the loaf out on the counter for a few hours out of the package. I have used both and they’re both fine.
You do want them to be more yellow than brown for this one. For banana bread it is best to have your fruit very ripe, bread pudding with bananas should be a bit firmer so they keep their shape when baked in the oven.
Very carefully and with a spatula. You don’t want them to break apart so gently fold into the homemade banana bread pudding mixture before pouring into your casserole dish.
This leftover banana bread pudding recipe is so flavorful you won’t need any glaze or anything on top. It’s fantastic just the way it is.
Other Easy Recipes for Bread Pudding
- Check out my caramel apple bread pudding recipe and:
- Our Instant Pot bread pudding
- Apple pie bread pudding is amazing
Have more bananas you want to use up in something delicious? Our #1 most popular breakfast/dessert choice is this 4 ingredient banana bread. It is pretty incredible so I don’t blame people for making this over and over again.
- I also make this pumpkin banana bread during the Fall. It’s so moist, and served with a cup of coffee in the morning it just makes me all giddy inside.
- Now if you have a pressure cooker you can make our Instant Pot banana bread recipe too! Have you ever baked in that thing? It’s surprisingly good.
- AAAaaaand let’s round out our banana recipes with this moist and delectable banana pudding cake!! OH YES!
Bread pudding with bananas
Ok I guess I am getting carried away but I have had them all and my mouth is already starting to drool y’all. 😉 Now grab everything you need for this and get going my friend. Let us know how much you like it below.
Easy Banana Bread Pudding
Equipment
- 1 9×13 pan
- 1 Bowl
Ingredients
- 3 c milk
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 c sugar
- 2 bananas, not too brown, yellow or yellow with brown spots is best
- 1/2 c caramel bits, optional
- 1 loaf french or sandwich bread, day old is best, discard heels of bread
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- olive oil spray
Instructions
- Dice your day old loaf of french bread, or thick sandwich bread (do not use heels).
- Add milk to large bowl. Put diced bread into milk and soak milk up with bread. In separate bowl add eggs, sugar, vanilla, almond extract and mix well.
- Add sugar mixture to bread mixture and gently fold together. Cut banana, add to mixture and add your caramel bits to mixture.
- Spray non stick cooking spray into glass 9×12 baking dish.
- Pour mix directly into glass baking dish and put in oven at 350 degrees for approx. 30 minutes or until egg is no longer soft.
- You don't want to over cook this as bread pudding should be soft, but egg needs to be cooked vs. translucent.
- Cool in pan on cooling rack for 10-15 minutes before serving so it can solidify.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My first time eat and making bread pudding and OMG!
I did modify it a little
– Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
– 1/2 c sugar and 1/4 c dark brown sugar
– pinch salt
– Vanilla bean paste
– lots of cinnamon
– 1/2 cup raisins
– leftover bakery dinner rolls 10
Wisked eggs and sugar then added milk, salt, vanilla, cinnamon, raisins. Added the diced rolls then folded in the sliced banana. Used a sprayed metal 13×9 and covered with plastic for a few hours. Baked exactly 30 minutes.
It was heavenly. I will NEVER throw out bread again. This is a keeper and I will be sharing.
Thank you
Oh so glad you loved it as much as us!
Recipe looks easy & very tasty. However, I don’t see where the printable recipe is?
At very bottom you can print
thank you upfront
thank you very much 뜻
English person here could you tell me what is the heels of the bread, I can only assume you mean the crusts ie the top & bottom, only I never heard my mother-in-law ever say heels of bread, you learn something new every day.
Yes the 2 crust pieces.