bread pudding

noun

plural bread puddings

: a dish consisting of bread pieces soaked in a mixture of eggs, milk, and usually sugar and spices and then baked

This easy-to-prepare bread pudding makes dessert out of ingredients you probably already have in the house.

—Joanne Lamb Hayes

Vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg star in this classic bread pudding recipe made with eggy challah bread.

—Frances Janisch

Now Savoy regulars have been nudging Susan to bring back her panettone bread pudding, created for New Year's Eve when she was Le Madri's pastry chef.

—Richard Sax

Modern bread puddings tend to be more custard than casserole, with the creamy factor playing a bigger role in the recipe's texture.

—Wynnie Stein

I'm not wild about stuffing, but I love bread pudding and often make savory versions to serve with roasted birds.

—Ann Lovejoy

Examples of bread pudding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The result is less structured than the classic version but more decadent, with a comfort-food feel that leans almost bread pudding-adjacent. —Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026

There’s that churro bread pudding, the one with a junkyard origin story that breaks down the churros and then reforms them into a dense and perfect block as powerful as an Avengers movie prop. —Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026

Everyone seems to be working effectively except for Oscar, who makes a gigantic deep pan of bread pudding but doesn’t get it into the oven until about an hour is left, and Justin, who grabbed ambrosia salad seemingly on a whim and doesn’t have a real vision for how to update it. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026

Get the recipe > Maple syrup enriches the batter for this bread pudding redolent with cinnamon and studded with raisins. —Saveur Editors, Saveur, 15 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1623, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bread pudding

• gooding
• wooding