This Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding is knock your socks off amazing! The kind of dessert that you secretly eat right from the pan when no one else is looking!
Bread Pudding is one of my very favorite recipes, and makes for an absolutely delicious dessert. I love that this is a holiday spin on that classic, and I think you are going to love it too.
Bread Pudding
How to Make Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding
This is a brief overview of how to make this delicious recipe. For the full recipe with all of the measurements, see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Make a cranberry sauce. For this recipe we are combining cranberries with butter and brown sugar for a rich and delicious cranberry sauce.
- Mix up the custard. Combine the eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, vanilla, orange liqueur, orange zest, and granulated sugar.
- Put it all together. Mix the bread with the custard so it is fully coated. Then add in the cranberry mixture.
- Bake it up.
Drying Bread for Bread Pudding
A key step to this recipe is letting the bread dry out. That will allow the custard mixture to soak into the bread really well. You can do this by putting the bread in the oven for 30 minutes at 250 degrees after cutting it up. Another option is to leave the bread out on a pan after cutting it up.
Orange Liqueur
I love the addition of the orange liqueur in this recipe. It adds such a great punch of flavor. I like using Cointreau in this recipe, but triple sec will work as well.
If you would prefer to leave this alcohol free, you can replace it with orange juice instead.
Orange Zest
Zest of a citrus fruit is a great way to bring more of the flavor of that fruit to a recipe. The juice will add some flavor, but the zest really packs a punch. It is why we use lemon zest in my lemon curd and lime zest in my Key Lime Pie.
When you are zesting fruit, be sure to zest just the very exterior of the fruit. You should stop before you hit the white part just under the skin.
Leftovers
Store the leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to four days. This recipe is delicious right out of the oven and warm, but it is also great cold.
More Holiday Recipes
If you try this recipe or any of my other recipes, leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh cranberries
- 2 TBSPs butter
- 2 TBSPs brown sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 TBSP vanilla
- 1 TBSP orange liqueur you can sub with orange juice
- 1/2 TBSP orange zest
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 10 cups cut up bun bread roughly 9 3 inch slider buns
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, combine the cranberries, butter, and brown sugar. Cook, stirring until the cranberries have just begun to pop and break down. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, vanilla, orange liqueur, orange zest, and granulated sugar. Whisk until fully combined.
- Add the cut up slider buns. Stir until the bread is completely covered with the egg mixture. Stir in the cooled cranberries. Let sit for 20 minutes so that it soaks up the egg mixture.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9 by 13 inch baking dish by spraying it with cooking spray.
- Once ready, pour the mixture into the pan and spread into an even layer.
- Bake, uncovered, for 35 to 40 minutes or until it begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
- Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.
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Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding
Brianne @ Cupcakes & Kale Chips says
Ack, I’m totally having tag line dilemma too! Mine is only food and I want to open it up to include more. And crazy how hanging out with bloggers makes you simultaneously inspired and easy to run and hide. B leaves things more open – DIY can be crafts and other stuff. Though if you can keep “tThe Adventures of” somehow because you do tell stories about your life. Well, whatever you decide, keep rocking the bread pudding! Yum!
Mir says
I’m going with option C. Something about multitasking moms. Because so many of us are working a ton of jobs, and we don’t have time to breathe, much less go out and party! I’d love to grow my blog, but I work 10 hours outside the home, have three small kids at home, and I’m holding it all together. And there are a lot of us out there like that!
Love the bread pudding, too. It would help me take a deep breath and savor the moment.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
1. Partying with you is way more fun than real life. I just want to keep doing it instead of, you know, lifing.
2. I like #1 but I also like something like Easy Recipes & Crafts for a busy life (or a busy mom or ??)