Best Instant Pot Bread Pudding

Instant Pot bread pudding is one of our favorite Ninja Foodi dessert recipes! Moist and pretty in a bundt pan it will become a favorite of yours too. If you loved our easy banana bread pudding uses fresh fruit this is how you can bake in a pressure cooker.

Have you made Instant Pot bread pudding yet??!! It was so good!! We had it for dessert but it would be a great brunch menu item or a treat for breakfast too. It’s definitely one of our favorite Instant Pot recipes here on The Typical Mom blog. (affiliate links present)

If you’ve never “baked” in your pressure cooker it is really quite easy. We have made our famous raisin bread pudding in the oven over the years, especially during the holidays. Now it was time to see if there was a way to make it pretty in this multicooker too. I was curious to see.

Ninja Foodi Bread Pudding Recipe

You can use any brand you might have at home to get this done. I love easy Ninja Foodi recipes and desserts but do have an IP and crockpot express as well. They all are electric and have the high pressure function so use what you have.

Why we love baking in a pressure cooker

Why would you bother making it this way anyway right?? Well let me tell you why it has been a great method for us from time to time and may be an option for y’all too.

• Because it makes just enough for the 5 of us…and not too many leftovers so I don’t get myself into trouble. 😉
• When it’s summertime I do NOT turn on the oven when it’s hot outside and I’m paying for my air conditioner to be on.
• It makes baked goods super moist!
• It frees up your oven for other items, perfect if you need lots of brunch menu items and they won’t all fit in your oven at the same time.

I will start by saying that I have made a lot of different bread pudding recipes and for each one I’ve used day old French bread…I didn’t do that this time. Instead since I was making raisin bread pudding I used a loaf of raisin bread and it worked out incredibly well!

I have made this in the oven too with a fruit kick to it. You should try them all and see which you like best. If you don’t want to heat up your whole house though using your pot is a great idea. Apple pie bread pudding. You could use this raisin bread instead for this too if you wanted.

What is bread pudding sauce made of?

You can make a simple glaze with powdered sugar and milk, or use heavy cream, or even bourbon if you want to add a punch of flavor. Otherwise you could spoon pie filling over the top like we did with our Strawberry bread pudding, oh this was oh so yummy.

You will want a small so cute bundt pan to make this. I think this works a lot better than a round springform pan because it bakes more evenly. Otherwise the middle will be slightly underdone by the time the outside is a bit too dry. Just get one + a mixing bowl to combine.

Ingredients

• Raisin bread cubes – leave it on the counter so it’s kinda’ “day old” texture (on the dry side)
• Eggs added at room temperature and whisked
• Whipping and/or heavy cream is better than milk
• Butter melted
• Vanilla is nice or almond extract
• Cinnamon we love to add
• Apple sauce – Seriously this pressure cooker applesauce (made without the oats) is the BEST because you can make it chunkier which makes this bread pudding so good (then eat the rest for snacks)
• Maple syrup – real maple syrup is so much better
• Vanilla frosting – or cream cheese frosting, if you want to drizzle some on top

Equipment needed

7″ bundt pan is what I used and best, it can be seen above. Use a bit of cooking spray inside so it doesn’t stick though the melted butter will help a bit.

Substitutions

You can use dairy free butter alternative. Sour cream can be used instead of applesauce, or Greek yogurt. Agave is an alternative to maple syrup. You don’t really need any more sweetness on top but a bit of frosting is good, or whisk powdered sugar with a bit of milk to make your own.

You can make this with coconut milk if need be. It won’t be quite as creamy and may not firm up quite as much because that has less fat but will work. I’ve done that to make French toast for my hubby.

Do you need to cover bread pudding with foil?

When “baking” in an Instant Pot or Ninja Foodi pressure cooker you will want to cover the top with foil. The reason why you want to do this is so the condensation doesn’t drip on to the top and make it soggy. If baked in the oven this isn’t necessary.

You can jump to recipe below and print it out if you like too. Get out the bundt pan and aluminum foil you’ll need to get this all set up. A bowl is handy to whisk all the liquids together.

How to Make Bread Pudding in Instant Pot

• Cut bread into cubes and melt your butter. Pour butter into mini bundt pan.
• Sprinkle bread pieces into the pan.
• In a bowl whisk together in a bowl your eggs, syrup, whipping cream, apple sauce, cinnamon and vanilla extract and pour this on top of your bread.
• Cover pan with foil tightly.
• Pour 1 1/2 cups of water into your Instant Pot and lower a trivet down in the middle. Place bundt on top of that.
• Close your lid and steam valve and set to high pressure cook for 20 minutes cooking time.
• Do a natural release until all steam is released. (do not quick release or it won’t set) This will take 15 minutes or so.
• Remove and take foil off.
• Put on a cooling rack and allow to completely cool so egg can continue to cook and solidify inside the bundt pan.

Always allow it to cool quite a bit and pull away from the edges before gently flipping it over with a plate on top and let it slide out. When it is cooled carefully flip pan over on to a plate and melt frosting or serve with ice cream.

How do You Make Bread Pudding Bites?

Now if you wanted to make this in smaller pieces you could. You would need an egg mold like we used to make Instant Pot pancake bites with blueberries. You just make as directed below but spoon inside this accessory to bake for half the time. My kids love making and decorating a few Instant Pot donuts for breakfast or dessert this way too.

It is somewhat like a Instant Pot breakfast casserole recipe I suppose. With a Foodi you will use the lid that is not attached, beyond that the same steps should be followed.