Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding made with stale glazed doughnuts is maybe the most heavenly thing you will taste besides “Hot” Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. It is creamy and sinfully rich. Serve with an easy homemade chocolate sauce to mimic a chocolate glazed doughnut.
This is a great recipe if you have leftover, stale Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Like you’d have any of those right? I didn’t but I wanted to try making Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding so badly, I went to the Krispy Kreme store near our house and bought 2 dozen “Hot Now” doughnuts. One dozen for us the eat fresh and one dozen to save. Not such an easy task. The saving part.
Now if you’ve never had a Hot Krispy Kreme doughnut right off the conveyor belt, let me just say they are the best things ever. Literally.
The texture is unreal, so light and pillowy. They just melt in your mouth. But with each passing minute they lose a little of their special something. Until they become those dense Krispy Kreme doughnuts you can buy at the gas station. They don’t tempt me at all. You can revive them a little by sticking them in the microwave for 8-10 seconds, but they will never completely recapture that “Hot” flavor and texture.
Not eating that second box of doughnuts for 3 days was quite the challenge. They were hidden at the back of the bottom shelf in the pantry to lessen the temptation.
I don’t recommend torturing yourself in this way.
But if you do happen to ever have stale glazed doughnuts on your hands, take them and drown them in milk, cream, eggs, and sugar and bake until hot. You will have maybe the next best thing to “Hot” Krispy Kremes – Hot Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding.
Put on a little homemade chocolate sauce to get that taste of a chocolate glazed doughnut. Stale never tasted so good!
If you’re a Krispy Kreme lover, try there Copycat Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
Note: If you don’t live where Krispy Kreme doughnuts are available, any glazed doughnut will do.
See How To Make Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding in the Video Below.
Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 dozen stale Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts, any glazed doughnuts will do
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of nutmeg
Chocolate Sauce
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Cut each doughnut into 5 or 6 pieces and place in a greased 9X13-inch or slightly smaller baking dish.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, heavy cream, brown sugar, salt, vanilla extract, and nutmeg.
- Pour over doughnuts. Press doughnuts into liquid to moisten. Let sit 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place baking dish in oven uncovered and bake for 45 minutes.
- To make sauce, place chocolate chips in a small bowl. Bring heavy cream to a boil in a small saucepan. Pour over chocolate chips. Let sit 15 seconds. Stir until smooth.
- Serve bread pudding warm.
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Originally published September 25, 2014.
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Not sure if this is the right spot but can I use sweetened condensed milk instead of heavy whipping cream?
Thanks,
Mary
I wonder– Instead of using the egg and milk mixture, couldn’t you just keel it really simple and pour egg nog over the donuts? Egg Nog is made of pretty much all the same ingredients…
Yes, I think egg nog would be delicious, but I would sub just the milk with egg nog and still add the eggs. Eggs act as a thickener and binder in the recipe. Even though egg nog contains eggs, it’s not going to act as a binder in the same way that raw eggs do.
Custard is my favorite, and I love finding new bready items to soak in it and bake! And I’m from NC and have never trusted Dunkin Donuts. I’m a Krispy Kreme girl all the way!
I’m a Krispy Kreme girl all the way too Jenni!!
Team Krispy Kreme. Best team ever. lol
Do you think you could assemble this a day ahead and then bake before serving?
I haven’t tried that Rachel so I’m not sure how it would turn out. You could definitely have the doughnuts all cut up and ready to go and the mixture that you pour on the doughnuts mixed up in advance.
Just jumping in to let Rachel know that assembling beforehand might actually work better, like an overnight baked French toast. Especially if the doughnuts are really stale. Overnight in the fridge would give the custard adequate time to soak into every tiny bite! =)
Growing up in Greensboro, NC (right next to Winston-Salem, NC home of Krispy Kreme), I could inhale a whole dozen of the Hot Now! Krispy Kremes with no problem. Have been making bread pudding with the stale doughnuts for years, will even use the grocery store’s yeast glazed doughnuts in a pinch. Only change is I make a chocolate custard with whole chocolate milk and a good squeeze of chocolate syrup (1/4 to 1/2 cup) and at Christmas time – candied orange peel.
Oh my! I am going to have to try a chocolate version like you do!
I can inhale quite a few Hot Krispy Kremes too. 🙂
Wow this recipe sounds great. My son brought home a dozen stale glazed donuts from work today. I hate throwing food out and now I can make something yummy with the donuts. Thanks for the great recipe!
I hope you love it Sharon!
I made this tonight for my son’s birthday dinner. It was DELICIOUS! Followed the recipe and made no adjustments. Came out moist and not soggy. I did not use all of the ganache and could have cut that down by at least half. I used an 9×9 casserole dish so that may be why it didn’t take very much. Thank you so much for posting this recipe. It will definitely be my new go to recipe.
Do you think filled donuts would alter the recipe. I’m a huge lemon filled donut fan
I have made this with a few changes based on a previous bread pudding that I made, but I stayed pretty close to this and it is absolutely PHENOMENAL! I have been hounded for it ever since! I bought 8 dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts to make enough for all of the requests! I grew up eating Krispy Kreme and this just gives me another to savor them!
So glad you enjoyed it Erica! Krispy Kremes are hard to resist aren’t they? For years, I didn’t have one by my house, so I wasn’t tempted often but now they seem to be opening new stores everywhere and it is so hard not to stop when I drive by one. 🙂
This was just okay. Too much eggy stuff on the bottom. It was soggy. Way too much chocolate topping too. If I had used it all, it would have been like frosting. My boys didn’t like it and asked that next time I just leave them as donuts:(
Hi Christin,
Can I sub regular whipping cream for heavy? I have 2 pints in my fridge I’d like to use up but I don’t want the bread pudding to suffer! I’m making this for work tomorrow 😉
Thanks for the help!
Alex
I just had a thought… maybe I could just use all whipping cream in place of the whole milk AND heavy whipping cream? That wouldn’t work for the sauce portion though….
Hope I’m not too late answering your question Alex! Yes, you can sub whipping cream for heavy cream. Hope you enjoy the bread pudding!
Oh God! It’s so good, I will prepare it this weekend for our friends.
Good job.
Thank you Norma!
Krispy Kreme donuts are my absolute favorite. I could easily eat a dozen myself!
Holy yum and extra spin classes, Batman! But, this looks like no regrets to me 🙂
Wow! We have to travel (quite a way) for that “HOT” Krispy Kreme. My husband knows when we see that sign lit up – we have to stop!!! They do sell the packaged KK locally, but I don’t like them compared to the fresh ones, but I will buy them on my next trip to the store so I can make this heavenly creation. I can’t wait to make this for my family (especially my parents and my daughter), they love KK and bread pudding, but putting the two together, they’ll never want me to bake anything else!!!
I hope everyone enjoys it Dena! “Hot” Krispy Kremes are worth the travel aren’t they?
Holy crap I just died & went to heaven! I can’t wait to make this, sadly we don’t have a KK store in SW FL where I live. This will be made this week, if I can hold off that long. My only concern is that living with my mom & sister one batch won’t be enough for 3 women lol. I’m going to start buying the day old glazed donuts at the grocery store! Buying them stale is the only way they won’t be eaten before I make this. I found this recipe through my recipe lion email & now I’ll be following your site! Thank you so much!!
I made this last night for a friend’s birthday dinner. I accidentally forgot to add the vanilla, and I subbed out cinnamon for the nutmeg. It was AMAZING. Astounding. Insanely and decadently delicious. Life-alteringly good. I had to be physically restrained from the leftovers. Helpful tip: Grocery stores and gas stations are the best sources for slightly stale KK’s, since I am not capable of resisting the fresh ones long enough to let them get stale!
I have been making this recipe for a while, but instead of glazed donuts I use half a dozen large apple fritters. It is so delicious, I can’t even begin to describe the yum that happens in your mouth!! Thanks for the post!
I made this today with my left over dozen donuts (after getting the “buy one dozen, get one dozen free” deal on 12/12). It was absolutely delicious! Definitely saving the recipe for whenever I end up with a dozen stale Krispy Kreme donuts, again! Will that ever happen, again? LOL
Stale Krispy Kreme donuts are hard to come by aren’t they! I missed the “buy one dozen, get one dozen free” on 12/12 . 🙁
So glad you enjoyed the recipe! 🙂
Have you tried freezing this recipe? Have a box of donuts but can’t indulge right now. ; 0 Does this recipe freeze well?
I’ve never tried freezing bread pudding Cathy.
Teehee I don’t know of these “leftover donuts” of which you speak. 😉 But if I did, I’d make them into this bread pudding STAT! It looks out of this world, Christin!