Vegan Bananas Foster Bread Pudding

This vegan Bananas Foster Bread Pudding combines bananas, rum and brioche bread. It works great for breakfast or for dessert, or as dessert for breakfast.

I’m about to make your Sunday morning a sunnier one with this Vegan Bananas Foster Bread Pudding.

It’s so delicious, it’ll make you want to lick every last crumb from the bowl, and from the baking dish.  Because it truly, honestly tastes like heaven. Or at least a piece of it.

I used my Vegan Olive Oil Brioche to make this Vegan Bananas Foster Pudding and it was really the perfect bread for it. But if you want to make this dish lower fat, or fat-free — because there’s no added fat in this other than what’s in the brioche, really — you can use any tender bread. Wholegrain or gluten-free bread would work great too. Day-old bread is the best.

I made this for breakfast on Saturday morning and although it could easily serve six to eight people, it was almost gone by the time the three of us — Desi, Jay and I — were done with it. For Jay and Desi, my two resident kids, I served this with a dollop of vanilla ice cream, because that makes the deliciousness of this even more delicious. And even if that sentence didn’t make any sense, trust me, this pudding absolutely will.

What I really love about this Vegan Bananas Foster Pudding is that you can make it with what you very probably already have in your kitchen: bread and bananas. Is there a home where those two aren’t a staple? There’s rum in this recipe, because it is a riff on the dessert Bananas Foster, and I don’t mind feeding it to Jay because the alcohol cooks out leaving just a great flavor behind, but if you’d rather not, you can leave it out.

This has been a busy weekend for us so I am going to say au revoir now. Hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Now, the recipe for Vegan Bananas Foster Pudding.

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5 from 2 votes

Vegan Bananas Foster Pudding

A vegan Bananas Foster Bread Pudding with the addictive combination of bananas, rum and vanilla. 

Prep Time20 mins

Cook Time50 mins

Total Time1 hr 10 mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American, Vegan

Servings: 8 servings

Author: Vaishali Honawar

Ingredients

• 6 cups cubed brioche (use my vegan recipe -- linked in the recipe notes -- or storebought bread of any kind. A tender bread is better in this) (About 1/2 loaf)
• 3 cups vanilla flavored non-dairy milk
• 3 tbsp cornstarch
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tbsp rum
• 5 bananas, cut into coins

For the optional sauce:

• 1 cup vanilla flavored non-dairy milk
• 1 tbsp rum
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp cornstarch

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Whisk together the milk, sugar, rum and cornstarch in a large bowl.
• Add the cubes of bread and mix well. Set the bread aside to soak.
• Prepare a large baking dish by spraying with cooking spray.
• Arrange half the bananas in the bottom of the baking dish. Scoop in half the bread mixture. Then layer on the remaining bananas, and add the remaining bread on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes or until the pudding has thickened. Turn on the broiler and let the bread brown a little on top, for another 3-4 minutes. Keep a close eye on the pudding while the broil function is on because you don't want it to over-brown.

Make the optional rum sauce:

• Mix all ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, whisking constantly. Turn off the heat as the sauce starts to thicken.
• Pour the sauce over the pudding and serve with ice cream or by itself.

Notes

Here's the recipe for my Vegan Olive Oil Brioche with Aquafaba. Works perfectly in this pudding.

If you'd rather not add the sauce to the recipe-- and the pudding is delicious without it-- you can scatter on some golden raisins.

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More breakfast ideas for a lazy Sunday:

Healthy Vegan Stuffed French Toast

Vegan Mexican Sweet Potato Hash with Black Beans and Tofu

Wholegrain Vegan Banana Chia Cake with Crumb Topping