Doughnut Bread Pudding Muffins
Give stale doughnuts a new life by turning them into bread budding dessert.
| Servings |
| 12Muffins |
| Cook Time |
| 25 Minutes |
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Ingredients
- 2Heaping Tbsp butter
- 1Large Apple (or 2 med)I used Granny Smith for a tart flavor
- 3/4tsp saltDIVIDED
- 1 1/4tsp CinnnamonDIVIDED
- 1 -1/4C Heavy Cream
- 1 -1/4C Whole Milk
- 1/2C sugar*Use your judgement on more of less based on how sugary your donuts are (glazed and such).
- 6 Egg Yolks
- 3Large Eggs
- 20-25STALE DoughnutsSimiliar style/flavor doughnuts work best and cake doughnuts work really well.
- 2tsp Vanilla Extract
- Caramel SauceHomemade or prepared
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350 degrees. Butter your muffin tin. *Reuse Tip – Save your butter wrappers in a zip bag in the fridge. Each time you need to butter a pan, pull one out and use the remaining butter on the wrapper to coat your pan.
- Core and peel your apples. Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium to high heat. Add peeled and cubed apples and half the salt and cinnamon. Cook until tender, stirring often. Take off heat and let cool.
- Separate 6 eggs (freeze whites for another occasion).
- In a large bowl, combine cream, milk, sugar, egg yolks, eggs, and remaining salt and cinnamon.
- Chop up doughnuts into small bite size pieces. Add cooled apples and doughnuts to the milk and egg mixture, Stir to combine and let stand for 10-15 minutes until the liquid is absorbed.
- Add batter to muffin pan evenly and bake for approximately 25 minutes.
- Run a knife around the edge to remove a muffin and drizzle with caramel sauce. Great served warm with ice cream.
Recipe Notes
Tips-
Most of the doughnuts were hard, but I had a friend drop off a few doughnuts for me to add to this and they weren’t as old. The staler the doughnuts the more structure (less mushy) for a bread pudding.
As stated, I used cake donuts. I used a combination of glazed, crumb, and old fashioned.
Have leftover donuts at work? Save them in a freezer bag until you have enough to make some donut bread pudding muffins.
In the pan apples were cooked in, test your batter by dropping a small amount and cook to taste. If batter needs more sugar you can add it or any additional seasoning needed.
This could also be done in a 9X13 pan.
If you need to dry out your donuts, place them in a low oven until they are hard.
