Banana Rum Caramel Crunch Bread Pudding
A must have for the holidays or anytime you have company! Use your over ripe bananas, and leftover cereal for this crunchy, cozy banana rum caramel crunch bread pudding!
Dish Count :: 1 Baking Dish, 1 Mixing Bowl, 1 Cutting Board

It’s only four sleeps until Christmas and our Christmas cards have yet to go out in the mail. Nothing like a post-Christmas Christmas card… The only repreive is that we are all busy and I hope that no one takes offense when they get their cards around the New Year instead. It’s the thought that counts?
My mom is on top of her Christmas cards. Every year, without fail. My family isn’t much for gifts during the holidays, choosing to spend time making things for people instead. My mom’s thing is her cards – with a new design every year, hand made, stamped, punched, glittered and loved.
Me? I bought the 30 boxed set of cards at Costco. And they’re still not finished.

Our Christmas card from mom and bonus dad arrived in the Saturday mail, with two adorable scarved penguins on it, and a tear jerking note inside. So I made bread pudding to calm my happy tears.
And hopefully, with four sleeps until Christmas, I will get our non-handmade Christmas cards out today.
At least there is still bread pudding left over to console me in my Christmas card failure.


Banana Rum Caramel Crunch Bread Pudding
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Description
A must have for the holidays or anytime you have company! Use your over ripe bananas, and leftover cereal for this crunchy, cozy banana rum caramel crunch bread pudding!
Ingredients
- 1 Loaf French Bread, or 12 large Dinner Rolls torn into 1” pieces
- 1 pint Whole Milk
- 1 cup Half and Half
- 8 Egg Yolks
- 1 Tbsp Rum Extract
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 Tbsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- 2 Ripe Bananas, diced
- 1 – 1 1/2 cup Honey Bunches of Oats Cereal
- 1/2 cup Caramel Sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In a large bowl whisk together half and half, milk, brown sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, rum extract and spices.
- Pour the dried bread into the milk mixture and toss to coat the bread evenly. Let the bread and milk/egg mix rest for about 10 minutes.
- Pour the mixture into the bottom of a sprayed 2-quart or 13×9″ baking dish or casserole dish.
- Sprinkle the bananas over the top of the bread mixtures. And sprinkle with Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, or granola of choice.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes, or until the bread pudding registers at least 165 degrees in the middle when tested with a thermometer. If the cereal becomes too crunchy on top, lightly tent with aluminum foil and continue baking.
- Serve warm and topped with caramel sauce.
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Talk about a fun bread pudding especially when it involves RUM.
Well this looks seriously amazing. So perfect for the holidays!
Love the cereal addition here to give it some crunch. That’s so perfect. And don’t feel bad about the cards…I haven’t mailed a single one this year. Yeah, totally winning at life right now. But I have food, so people will probably forgive me :-). Hope you have a great Holiday, Luv!
Love that we are twins today!! Bread pudding for life!!
This looks insanely delish! I love the caramel sauce topping!
I love all of these flavors! Yum!
I love the crunch in this bread pudding. So delicious!
Oh Christmas cards. I too bought a box of cards and I haven’t even opened them yet. *sigh* Guess I can use them next year, right? 🙂
Totally digging this bread pudding, Megan! Looks so good!
I love most anything with bananas it, this looks wonderful with the cereal crunch on top!
Oh baby, you hit my soft spot. I love love love bread pudding. What a champion recipe for it. I was COMPELLED to pin it.
Rum for breakfast? Count me in! I recently discovered my love of bread pudding and I love the bananas in this one. Merry Christmas!
yum! anything with caramel and banana is a win in my book! 🙂
Holy heck yes!
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