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.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Originally published September 25, 2014.
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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!