I love to offer dessert recipes to my guests that feature seasonal fruit. Some of my favorites include fresh strawberry pie, berry chantilly cake, and this indulgent blueberry bread pudding. We have this restaurant in our town where the food is good but the desserts are even better. The owner gets up at the crack of dawn and churns out about ten different dessert options every day. Each time I go there a seasonal bread pudding is on the menu – last time it was a blueberry bread pudding and I’ve been wanting to recreate it at home ever since. I think I did pretty well with this blueberry almond bread pudding, everyone loved it and it might even be better than the restaurant version! Looking for more fabulous dessert recipes? Don’t miss my flourless chocolate chip cookies, rocky ledge bars and vanilla almond flan.
Blueberry Bread Pudding Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need challah bread, blueberries, milk, eggs, vanilla extract, granulated sugar, butter, brown sugar, flour, almonds and salted caramel sauce. You can also add extra toppings like whipped cream and more berries.
How Do You Make Blueberry Bread Pudding?
Preheat the oven, then coat a baking dish with cooking spray. Layer the bread cubes and blueberries in the pan. In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Pour the custard over the bread and blueberries, making sure that the bread is completely submerged. For the streusel topping, place the brown sugar and flour in a bowl. Cut the butter into the flour and sugar until you have a mixture that looks like pebbles. Stir in the almonds, then sprinkle the streusel over the bread pudding. Bake until the pudding is golden brown and set. Cool, then add toppings such as caramel sauce, whipped cream and fresh berries. Serve and enjoy!
Tips For The Perfect Dessert
If you can’t find challah bread, brioche is a good substitute. This recipe works best with stale bread. You can make this pudding a day in advance. Add the caramel sauce and any other toppings right before serving. Fresh blueberries work best in this recipe. Frozen blueberries will release a lot of juice and turn the whole thing purple! Let the bread pudding cool before serving if you want to be able to cut it into neat slices.
Flavor Variations
This blueberry bread pudding is delicious as-is, but you can easily customize some of the ingredients to suit your taste.
Bread: Instead of challah, feel free to use brioche, croissants or French bread. Fruit: Swap out the blueberries for raspberries, blackberries or diced apples. Add-Ins: Stir some extra flavor into the custard with lemon zest or cinnamon. You can also add up to 1/3 cup of white chocolate chips or almonds into the bread and blueberry mixture.
Blueberry bread pudding is the perfect dessert for pretty much any occasion!
