As a Busy Mom, I am always looking for fun ways to fix my families favorite foods. We love our comfort foods, and these muffins are wonderful when you want a comfort food on the run.
With traditional bread pudding you use day old, or stale bread and serve it warm. Traditional recipes also have a lot of extra fat in them because of the heavy creams and butters. I love this recipe because it uses fresh or day old cinnamon or cinnamon-raisin bread, which takes less planning and uses less ingredients. Plus it uses milk instead of heavy cream and I use skim milk and they turn out perfect! I love that this recipe is quick and easy, stress-free comfort food for the Busy Mom/Family on the Go!
Bread Pudding Muffins
5 Cups Cinnamon Raisin Bread (or Cinnamon Bread)
1 & 1/4 Cups Milk
3 Eggs (or equivalent egg substitute)
1/3 Cup Sugar
1/2 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
Optional ingredients: dash salt, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, cinnamon, or pumpkin pie spice. Optional toppings: melted butter, powder sugar, icing. Optional add-ins: raisins, craisins, chocolate chips, almonds, walnuts, other nuts or dried fruit.
Cut cinnamon-raisin bread into 1/2-1 inch squares add in any optional add in ingredients and set aside. Mix together milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and optional ingredients, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice until well blended. Pour wet mixture over the bread mixture, mix together, and let sit 5 minutes to allow the bread to soak up the wet mixture.
Line or grease 12 muffin tins. Fill each muffin tin with bread pudding mixture. At this time add melted butter on top if desired. (use spray butter to save time)
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool on a cooling rack and sprinkle with powdered sugar or icing if desired. Enjoy!
Tip: Use the basic recipe as a base and then use any optional ingredients that will make this taste more like the traditional bread pudding that you enjoy as a family! We absolutely love this recipe at my house. The fact that it is quick and easy is also a bonus!
This recipe is great for breakfast, brunches, to take to the office, sell at a bake sale, or any time you need a dish to bring. These are also cute in mini muffin pans if you want these in a bite size muffin. To make the mini muffins just cut the bread in 1/2 inch pieces or a little smaller and bake for 15 minutes. Makes 24 mini muffins!
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