Don’t worry if you have too much honey cake leftover, this honey cake bread pudding will have you buying or making extra on purpose. Honey cake is the traditional rosh hashanah dessert, but often it can be dry and dense. Even if it comes out perfect, how much of it can you eat? Don’t throw it away, reuse it to make a new dessert.
Honey Cake Bread Pudding
Servings
8 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound leftover honey cake cut into cubes
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips or raisins
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cup soy milk
- 1 cup coconut milk
- grated zest of 1/2 orange
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 2-Quart baking dish or eight 6-8 ounce ramekins with cooking spray and set the dish or ramekins in a rimmed baking sheet.
- Put cubes of honey cake in dish or ramekins in an even layer. Scatter chocolate chips or raisins on top.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt until blended. Whisk in coconut milk and soy milk and orange zest.
- Pour egg mixture over honey cake cubes, then press down with a spatula until completely coated. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Put baking sheet with the baking dish or ramekins in the oven, then pour very hot tap water into the baking sheet to about 1/4 inch up the sides of the baking dish or ramekins.
- Bake until pudding is just set in the center, 60 to 75 minutes for the baking dish or 35 to 45 minutes for ramekins. Remove and let cool until warm to the touch.
Thanks so much, hope you like it. I updated to say raisins or chocolate chips, my family likes chocolate.
The recipe says chocolate chips but the instructions say raisins… I'm thinking it was meant to be raisins so I'm going with that! I wanted to take my dry honey cake and turn it into bread pudding, wondering if anyone thought of that already — leave it to Jamie Geller to have figured it out for us! So excited to try this!
The recipe says chocolate chips but the instructions say raisins. I'm thinking raisins is the intention! So excited to try this. I was thinking to turn my dry honey cake into a bread pudding and wondered if anyone else also thought of it. Leave it to Jamie Geller to have figured it out for us already!
You probably could, but keep it in the fridge.
Hi Jamie,
I’m going to try and make this fabulous honey cake bread pudding. Can I make the pudding a couple of days before I actually serve it? Thank you for your creative recipes.
Lynne
LOL, I hope it is not just me.
lots of people. my family is not enamoured with honey cake, though they say mine is the best they have ever eaten. They prefer apple cake any day. I make it though because it is part of the holiday.
Who in the world has left over honey cake, much less that much of it?!