Best King Cake Bread Pudding - Southern Fellow
Check out this recipe for King Cake Bread Pudding right here at Southern Fellow. This family recipe comes from country artist Gabrielle Metz.
Recipe Ingredients:
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King Cake Bread Pudding
This King Cake Bread Pudding is a Mardi Gras party in your mouth! This recipe was given to use from country music artist Gabrielle Metz.
Servings: 9
Cost: 16
Equipment
- 9x13 dish
- 3 bowls
- mixer
Ingredients
Cake
- I pkg Grand’s Cinnamon Rolls cooked no icing
- 3 LG Croissants
- 6 eggs beaten
- 2 cups milk
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
Topping
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp flour
- 4 tbsp butter diced
Glaze
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 tbsp milk
- ⅛ tsp salt
Instructions
Bread Pudding
- Bake cinnamon rolls per package instructions. (no icing)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Add cubed cinnamon rolls and croissants to a 9x13 baking dish. In a large bowl whisk eggs, milk, brown sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Pour the mixture over the bread cubes, press down, and let sit for 10 minutes.
Topping
- In a small bowl combine pecans, brown sugar, flour, and butter. Combine the ingredients with your hands until crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over the bread mixture.
- Bake the bread pudding for 40-45 minutes. The crumb should be lightly brown.
Glaze
- Combine the glaze ingredients with a mixer on low spead 1-2 minutes. Separate the glaze into 3 separate bowls. Add 2-3 drops of purple to one bowl, yellow to another bowl, and green food coloring to last bowl. Mix until the colors are combined. Drizzle on top of the bread pudding.
