Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding
Author: Heather Scholten · Posted: Mar 30, 2013 · Updated: Apr 18, 2025
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The easiest Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding that’s perfect for a weekend morning, Sunday brunch, or Christmas morning. The smell of spices and apples will perfume your home while it bakes.
Why You’ll Love this Recipe
One of the great things about being a food blogger is the people you meet along your journey. I have made fast friends with Lorie Hutson from The Spokesman Review, our local paper and she has graciously added my recipes in the Food section many a time. Including with this recipe for bread pudding. It’s so simple to make and a crowd pleaser every time.
You can kick this bread pudding up a notch by tossing in chunks of diced apples, chocolate chips, raisins or dried cranberries…the possibilities are endless! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Check out all of the other great recipes that were in the recent food article here: Simplicity of Brunch.
Like easy breakfast or brunch recipes? Try my recipes for Blueberry Lemon Loaf, or Pumpkin Challah Bread Pudding with Cranberries, or my Pumpkin Apple Cake.
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Texas Toast: is a thick sliced white bread. Experiment with other types of cubed bread like croissants, brioche, or sourdough for similar delicious results.
- Whole Milk: will make the custard for the bread rich and luscious, but if you’d prefer you can use any type of milk, even nut or seed milks.
- Applesauce: really helps make the custard perfumed and delicious.
- Eggs: large eggs are always used for recipes on Farmgirl Gourmet
- Sugar: a blend of white granulated sugar and brown sugar.
- Spices: ground cinnamon
For the Icing
- Powdered Sugar: also called confectioners’ sugar
- Milk: any type of milk will work to make this icing
- Vanilla: vanilla extract or vanilla paste
Find the printable recipe card with exact measurements and detailed instructions below.
How to Make this Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl add the applesauce. eggs, brown sugar, white sugar, milk and cinnamon. Whisk to combine. Add the bread cubes and toss lightly to coat. Allow to sit for a few minutes. Add to prepared baking dish and sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons of brown sugar over the top. Bake uncovered for 50-55 minutes, or until the center is set and the pudding has puffed. Remove from the oven and cool for a few minutes.
- To a small bowl add the powdered sugar, vanilla and milk and stir to combine. Drizzle over the warm bread pudding and serve immediately.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups applesauce
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup brown sugar plus 2 tablespoons for the topping
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 8 slices Texas Toast, cubed
For the Icing:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl add the applesauce. eggs, brown sugar, white sugar, milk and cinnamon. Whisk to combine. Add the bread cubes and toss lightly to coat. Allow to sit for a few minutes. Add to prepared baking dish and sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons of brown sugar over the top. Bake uncovered for 50-55 minutes, or until the center is set and the pudding has puffed. Remove from the oven and cool for a few minutes.
- To a small bowl add the powdered sugar, vanilla and milk and stir to combine. Drizzle over the warm bread pudding and serve immediately.
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Co-Founder at Spiceology | More About Heather…
Heather is a recipe developer and content creator living in Vancouver, Washington. She started Farmgirl Gourmet in 2006, almost 20 years ago, as a way to share recipes with friends and family. Heather is also the co-founder of Spiceology , a unique spice company, which she started in 2013. She shares family friendly recipes for easy everyday meals with a gourmet twist.
I really love this recipe and hope you will too!
Its in the oven right now. The applesauce mixture tasted awesome before it went into the oven. I can’t wait. It also is filling the house with incredible smells.
Hi Heather, I’ve been coordinating tailgates/post game meals for my son’s soccer team and found this recipe when I had a couple of dozen sandwich rolls leftover. I substituted the rolls for the texas toast and cooked this in a crockpot to keep warm for a post game dessert treat. the boys and parents loved it! thanks so much for the recipe!
I really like bread pudding. Would love to try this..
Yum, Heather. I would love it you fed this to me for breakfast!
Utterly yummy. Used up the end of last years apple sauce for this and now I’ll have to make extra this year just for this recipe.
Texas toast? the garlic stuff? in a dessert? doesn’t sound good unless you just mean the bread they make texas toast out of
Hi there, I live in England. I have no idea what Texas Toast is. Please can you clarify? Also, if I want to use apples, instead of apple sauce? I assume I just cook about the amount I think will make two cups?
It looks great. Thanks.
Julia
it’s a really thick cut white bread, like french toast bread. You could also use a challah if that’s more easily accessible. Hope that helps. Yes to the applesauce question as well.
I adore bread pudding, and this one sounds and looks amazing…can’t wait to make it for brunch next weekend.
This looks beyond delicious!!!!!!
Amazing! I’ll have to make this for brunch this weekend!
I agree with Kiran! Especially because of the applesauce, yum.
Oh my gosh! I need this bread pudding in my life!