So, here's the deal with banana bread pudding. It's not bread pudding with bananas, it's bread pudding made with banana bread. Um, which is clearly something totally, TOTALLY different. Whatever. GET OFF MY ASS, Fussypantses.
Anyway, you can use any kind of bread you like in this recipe, and other quick breads like pumpkin, zucchini, cranberry, or lemon are really good too.
The recipe is courtesy of my favorite cookbook, How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman.
Banana Bread Pudding
1/2-3/4 (I tend to use more like 3/4) loaf banana bread or other bread of your choice
3 cups milk
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon (or to taste)
3 eggs, beaten
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a dish (I use an 8x8). Cut up bread into cubes and place in greased dish. Heat milk, butter, sugar, and cinnamon in a saucepan just until butter melts. Pour milk mixture over bread, pushing the bread cubes down every now and again so they all get nice and saturated. Add beaten eggs and mix well (if you don't, you get little puddles of cooked egg--DISGUST). Sprinkle a little extra sugar and cinnamon over the top so you have a nice crunchy crust. Nummy. This is totally key.
Bake at 350 for 45 min-1 hour or until set. It should be a little wobbly in the center, so don't go too nuts with the cooking. Keep in the fridge.
I served up a MASSIVE portion of this for BR last night, and after he was finished he was all, "is that ALL of it?"
Um, NO, I didn't give you the whole BATCH as if that was the proper serving size, but who am I to judge if you want to eat the whole thing! (there's just a tiny square left sadly in the corner today).
Jesus. How he is not in a diabetic coma is beyond me.
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I am on cloud 9! I LOVE bread pudding and I LOVE banana bread!!!! I will have to try soon!
Bread pudding has NEVER appealed to me (nor has rice pudding - in my mind they're similar), but I LOVE banana bread, and this stuff sounds AWESOME. I may try it. I'll at least print it out and let it hang with my other recipes.
JMC, yeah, I'm not huge on bread pudding either, but if you like banana bread, it's pretty unlikely that you won't like this. Unless you have some weird texture issues or something.
I also really like it with pumpkin bread, especially for the holidays.
AND! Another thing I like about it is that I usually have all the ingredients to make it on hand.
Even the banana bread, due to banana procurement algorithm that has yet to be perfected.
This sounds awesome.
I am totally bummed that I will have to wait so long to try it, since I now have to buy bananas. THEN sit and watch them overripen on the table. THEN make banana bread. THEN eat 1/4 to 1/2 of it. AND THEN FINALLY be able to try the recipe.
Well, it DOES sound a little high-maintenance when you put it that way. Heh.
Dude. This is cooking TWO THINGS. Like I just have banana bread laying around the joint? So, I'd have to make the banana bread and THEN make the pudding. Gah! That's entirely too damn much.
i don't even LIKE banana bread and this sounds good, which is confusing me.
Well, you could always BUY the banana bread, you overachievers! It doesn't have to be banana bread that you GREW IN YOUR OWN GARDEN or anything!
It doesn't even have to be BANANA bread! You can use regular bread!
Who knew you had so many fussypants readers? Hee.
The "keep in the fridge" part. Is that to set the pudding? Or, is it just advice to store leftovers in the fridge? This just seems like one of those better served warm kind of deals.
Lori, yeah, sorry. It's definitely best served warm. You don't need to refrigerate before eating or anything.
I just meant to keep the leftovers in the fridge.
"You could always buy the banana bread."
Oh the HELL you cannot. I searched everywhere and was told by a hapless Cub grocery employee, "I think it's just a seasonal item." Which, what? So then I shut my piehole and waited impatiently for Christmastime and guess what? STILL NO BANANA BREAD.
I'm making some this weekend (from scratch like a 50s housewife) and I'll bet a million trillion dollars it won't taste like the boxed Pillsbury stuff I grew up with.
Anyway, this recipe sounds awesome. And BR must have a stomach of steel.
That last bit, about eating all of it in one sitting, almost, is SO us. I make apple crisp a lot, as it is 1, easy, 2, Jim's favorite, and 3, I almost always have the ingredients. And if I pull that pan out at around 7PM, by bedtime there will just be a sad little corner left, just as you described. We are pathetic. This is why I have instituted a "no sweets unless they are homemade" policy. Can you imagine what we would look like if we just kept store bought bakery stuff around?
Banana bread is a SEASONAL ITEM! AHAHAHAHAHA!
This is my favorite part of this ENTIRE POST:
"It doesn't have to be banana bread that you GREW IN YOUR OWN GARDEN or anything!"
ummm.....uuu.....trying to figure out what season banana bread would go with. Carnivale, perhaps??????
"banana procurement algorithm"
SNORT.
I saw this was a recipe and got all excited, but it's not a hotdish recipe! Bummer. I love hotdish (although my whole life until now I thought it was called "casserole" but I have seen the error of my ways).
Tessie, your follow-up comments crack me up the most. Sheesh...I guess I'll have to take back that banana tree I bought in order to grow bananas to make the banana bread to put in this damn pudding.
I'm kidding, of course. This recipe sounds awesome and I'm going to make it as soon as I have excess bananas.
I'm not sad your 200th post is a recipe. It sounds delicious and looks easy. And even if you have to make your own banana bread, it's really nothing to freak out over. I wonder if you could substitute those little mini muffins...but you'd probably have to do just as much work ripping open the bags just to get out 6 tiny muffins.
Tell your fans that bananas can get ripe faster if you put them in the fridge or freezer - course they turn a lovely shade of black. Nuff said. I once lived in Houston and sadly, although they lovingly called me a "snowbird", I hated the humidity and the snakes/HUGE bugs/tacos on the side of the road kind of thing. No proper pizza is not the state for me. It's pretty there though. I went back to Indiana. Jeeze. What an interesting state.
Recipe or rant: I'm on board with either. CONGRATS AND THANKS FOR THE LAST 200 LAUGHS!
Much as I loved the idea of bread pudding with bananas, I love the idea of banana bread pudding more. I also almost always have banana bread on hand since I swear to god I cannot buy the right number of bananas no matter what and my son loves to help me make banana bread. Consequently, I've got a loaf of it in my freezer right now. I'm making the banana bread pudding first thing tomorrow - either that or two years from now I'll find the loaf of banana bread frozen like a giant hockey puck stuck to the back of my freezer.
OMG! This recipe makes me so HAPPY. It's like sprinkling sugar on PEEPS for christsake. Or putting BUTTER on my PBJs (which I totally do).
This reminds me of a minor league baseball park nearby which is famous for serving a hamburger on two krispy creme donuts. SERIOUSLY?! Yes, seriously.
I did it! I actually got off my butt and made this! And it is so very delish. Thanks for the recipe, Tessie!
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