Apple Pie Brioche Bread Pudding is a comforting treat, loaded with warm cinnamon, succulent chopped apple, raisins, cubed brioche bread, and a sweetened egg custard base. Serve it with a generous amount of homemade caramel bourbon sauce, whipped cream, or ice cream!
This bread pudding is elevated with sweet brioche bread - a type of bread that is known for its luxurious qualities and rich flavor. Enjoy this brioche bread pudding as a special breakfast, a midday treat, or satisfying dessert.
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🗝️ Recipe's key points
- Easily use up leftover brioche bread to make this delicious dessert!
- This bread pudding requires very little effort and is ready to serve in under an hour.
- It’s a versatile recipe that you can enjoy for breakfast, as a sweet treat, or decadent dessert with additional toppings.
Never toss your stale brioche bread again! This apple pie brioche bread pudding recipe will convert any aging bread into a mouth-watering treat!
🛒 Ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
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- Brioche -- may also be substituted with challah or panettone
- Apples -- use Golden Delicious, Jonagold, Braeburn
- Greek Vanilla Yogurt -- we prefer the Greek yogurt variety since it has the tendency to be less watery
- Raisins -- may use the white variety or even craisins.
- Bourbon -- you may also use rum extract
🗒 Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. Full instructions are in the recipe card at the bottom of the page.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with vegetable oil.
- Whisk together the yogurt, milk, eggs, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ½ cup of sugar in a large mixing bowl.
- Stir in the apples and raisins. Gently fold in the bread cubes.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.
- Combine the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon to make the cinnamon sugar.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the pudding and bake for 30-40 minutes until puffed and golden brown.
- While the bread pudding is baking, make the caramel sauce.
- Melt the butter, heavy cream, brown sugar, and bourbon together in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until the sauce comes to a boil. Reduce it to low heat and simmer until the sauce thickens, about 5 minutes.
- Pour the sauce over each serving of bread with a dollop of sweetened whipped cream or scoop of vanilla ice cream!
🥫 Storage
Store leftover apple pie brioche bread pudding in an airtight container, or covered in the baking dish, in the fridge for 3-4 days. Reheat it in the oven for 10-15 minutes or in the microwave for single servings.
You can also freeze this bread pudding for up to 3 months. Thaw it overnight in the fridge and reheat to serve.
📚 Variations
- You can use brioche bread that already contains raisins and cinnamon for this bread pudding. If you do, reduce or omit the raisins and cinnamon in the bread pudding mixture.
- The alcohol burns off from the stovetop heat, but you can omit the bourbon from the recipe if you’d prefer to.
- For added indulgence, and especially if you choose to serve this bread pudding as dessert, add chocolate chips into the bread mixture.
- Add other dried fruit and chopped nuts to this bread pudding. Dried cranberries with orange zest would be amazing!
- I love the sweetness from brioche bread, but you can use a different bread for this dish, such as my Amish Cinnamon Breakfast Bread.
- If you don’t enjoy raisins, use fresh blueberries instead!
- Use store-bought caramel sauce instead of making the bourbon sauce from scratch.
👩🏻🍳 Tips
- Dry bread cubes are best for bread pudding. I recommend that you leave the brioche bread cube out to dry for a few hours before making this dessert. Alternatively, if you’re pressed for time, dry them in the oven on a baking tray for 10-15 minutes at 350 degrees F, but don’t toast them!
- This bread pudding is great for making ahead. Prepare it the night before and store it in the fridge, covered. Bake it the next day for breakfast or dessert.
- If you're bread pudding browns too quickly in the oven, cover it with aluminum foil for the first 15 minutes and then remove the foil for the last 15-20 minutes.
🤔 FAQs
Brioche typically contains more fat in the form of milk, eggs, and butter. It can also sometimes include sugar and vanilla.
Brioche bread can be used to replace regular bread to make sandwiches and burgers. It’s also great to make French toast or bread pudding.
Brioche tastes more like pastry due to the ingredients in it, such as eggs, milk, butter, and sugar. It has a richer flavor to ordinary bread.
It’s important to accurately measure the liquid ingredients used in bread pudding to avoid excess moisture in the puddy. The pudding should not be covered with aluminum foil for the entire baking time. Instead, remove the foil mid-cook so that any excess liquid in the pudding can evaporate.
No. Bread pudding should be moist with a custard-like consistency, but it should not appear to be runny. Check to see whether you are using enough bread to soak up the liquid in the pudding.
📗 Related Recipes
- Tried And True Persimmon Pudding - This rich and dense pudding is full of spicy warmth and fruit pulp. It’s super comforting, moist, and delicious!
- Chocolate Breakfast Croissant - Chocolate Breakfast Croissant Casserole takes another form of bread and converts it into a sweet breakfast treat that can just as easily be enjoyed as a dessert with whipped cream and ice cream!
- Old Fashioned Homemade Apple Pie - A classic household favorite with soft and succulent apples and cinnamon encased in store-bought or homemade pie crust.
- Homemade Apple Pie Seasoning - This is the perfect spice blend for any of your apple desserts.
🍽 What to serve with brioche bread pudding
In addition to the bourbon sauce, this scrumptious apple pie brioche bread pudding can be served with a dollop of sweetened whipped cream, a scoop of Caramel Apple Pie No-Churn Ice Cream, or a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
It’s perfect for breakfast, a sweet tea-time treat, or dessert.
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You’ll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.
- Baking dish 9X13-inch
- Heavy saucepan
- Mixing bowls, large and small
- Dry measuring cups
- Liquid measuring cup
- Measuring spoons
- Apple Peeler-Corer
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📖 Recipe
Apple Pie Brioche Bread Pudding with Caramel Bourbon Sauce
Equipment Needed
Ingredients
- 8 cups brioche bread cubed ** see notes
- 3 medium apples peeled, cored, and chopped
- 4 large or jumbo eggs
- 1 cup Greek vanilla yogurt
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon divided
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup granulated sugar + 2 Tablespoons
- ½ cup raisins or craisins
- SAUCE:
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons bourbon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Spray a 9 X 13 baking dish with vegetable spray.
- Whisk together the yogurt, milk, eggs, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, and ½ cup sugar in a large mixing bowl.
- Stir in the apples and raisins, then gently fold in the bread cubes. Pour into the prepared pan.
- In a small bowl, stir together the 2 Tbsp. sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on top of the bread pudding.
- Bake 30-40 minutes until puffed and golden brown.
- While the bread pudding is baking, make the caramel sauce.
- Stir the butter, heavy cream, and brown sugar in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until the sauce comes to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low, and simmer until the sauce thickens, for about 5 minutes.
- When serving, pour the sauce over the bread pudding and top with a dollop of sweetened whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Notes
You can prepare the brioche bread pudding the night before and then pop it in the oven for breakfast or dessert the next day.
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