Banana Oat Bread Pudding
Hey guys, remember when I reviewed the Arnold Grains & More Double Protein and Double Fiber breads? Well Rena was kind enough to send me the other two varieties, Double Oat and Double Omega breads. Thank you so much, Rena!
In addition to using the bread to make sandwiches, I thought it would be fun to use the bread in various recipes as well. Once I’m done, I’ll be sure to post a product review!
Here’s the Double Oat bread:
Arnold Double Oat bread
Here’s some more info:
Arnold Double Oat bread
I used the Double Oat bread to make some bread pudding, specifically banana oat bread pudding. I made some modifications to the recipe, including doubling the amount of bread used (I used about 1/2 loaf of Double Oat bread), and increasing the amount of oats and milk.
Here’s the bread and oat mixture:
Bread and oats
Other modifications included halving the number of bananas, adding 1 diced apple, some vanilla and cinnamon, skipping the sugar, and adding about 1 1/4 cup chocolate chips.
Here it is all set in the pan:
Banana oat bread pudding mixture
And a closeup:
Closeup
You can still see the milk in the mixture because it hadn’t fully absorbed into the bread.
Here it is after baking:
Banana oat bread pudding
And a closeup:
Closeup
It looks a little burnt, but it really wasn’t. I left the crust on the bread, which is why it looks burnt.
My thoughts:
- It was good, but a little dry. I think that’s because I used 2 1/2 bananas instead of 4 (I wanted to save some to have with oatmeal tomorrow). I think using the number of bananas listed would have been better because it would have made the bread pudding a lot more moist.
- I could not taste the oats, vanilla, or cinnamon, so I would probably leave those out next time.
- This recipe did not have any eggs in it, so it didn’t really taste as custard-like as you might expect. I still thought it was good, though and would probably make it again.
- I’m keeping the bread pudding in the fridge and am excited to see if all the flavors meld together more overnight. I’m going to have a little bit for breakfast tomorrow, so I’ll let you know!
December 30th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Looks delicious! I got those samples, too – the bread is so delicious!
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Yay, glad you got the samples, too!
December 30th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Oh no eggs? Awesome! I’m interested!
Thanks for sharing!
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That’s right – no eggs!
December 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am
how creative! i need to get some of the oat bread!
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Hope you can find some!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:47 am
FABULOUS!!
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December 30th, 2008 at 10:31 am
That looks delicious!! Hope you try it again soon, looks like you put a lot of thought into how you could make it better
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Thanks!
December 30th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I wish I could find Arnold’s bread!! My stores will have it for a short time, I get hooked, then its GONE! That recipe looks awesome!
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Aw, that’s too bad! Hope you can find the bread soon!
December 30th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
banana oat bread pudding sounds incredible! might have to try that!
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Cool, let me know if you try it!
December 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
whata great way to use the recipe!!! too bad w coast doesn’t have arnolds…but i’m heading to the east coast so soon enough! yay!
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Yay, indeed!
December 30th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Yumm, yum, oh my gosh, yum! That sounds amazing!
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It was pretty good! Gotta love AllRecipes, plus the recipe reviewers!
December 31st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Well it sure looks good! I hope it came together overnight! Bread pudding is too tasty!!!!
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Thanks! It did come together better overnight, so I’ve been eating a lot of it!
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