Bread pudding meets apple pie! The best Fall treat!
Vegan apple pie bread pudding is the best bread pudding. Hands down. This is quick and so easy it is laughable. Takes about 10-15 minutes to prep and about 45 minutes to bake. So in about an hour’s time, you can be eating the greatest thing that has ever happened to bread pudding. The ingredients for this bread pudding are things you may already have. So, ya know. You should probably get started!
You may know this, but apple sauce is a great egg replacer. So, I decided the best route to take, would be to make the custard with almond milk, and apple sauce. Gives it a great apple flavor, and the perfect consistency. This bread pudding is moist and gets nice and caramelized. It tastes just like bread pudding and apple pie had a baby!
So the custard portion of the recipe is refined sugar free, then I just coated the apples in brown sugar, but if you want to make this totally refined sugar free, you can just use coconut sugar! Then coating the apples in corn starch as well, helps to keep the apples form getting to liquidy and making the pudding too wet. So, I recommend not skipping that step!
Now I say this is about as easy a dessert as you can make, because you really can’t mess this up. Whisk together the custard ingredients, add the bread to the custard, stir until all the bread has soaked up said custard. Put in baking dish. Toss chopped apples with brown sugar and corn starch, pour over the bread. Then bake. That is it.
I poured a vanilla glaze over my bread pudding, but it would be great with coconut whipped cream or vegan vanilla ice cream. Served warm so the ice cream starts to melt! Yes! Fall has arrived in the form of vegan apple pie bread pudding!
Vegan Apple Pie Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 7 Slices of bread, vegan
- 1/2 C. Almond milk
- 3/4 C. Apple sauce
- 1 tsp. Vanilla
- 2 tsp. Cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp. Maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp. Salt
- 3 Granny smith apples, peeled and chopped
- 1 C. Brown sugar
- 3 Tbsp. Corn starch
- Vanilla glaze, vegan vanilla ice cream or coconut whipped cream for serving
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Now, cut the bread into cubes and set aside.
- Next, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together the almond milk, apple sauce, vanilla, cinnamon, maple syrup and salt until fully combined.
- Now, add the cubed bread to the almond milk/ apple sauce mixture. Stir to fully coat the bread in the mixture, and make sure it has absorbed all the liquid. Now pour the bread pudding into a 8 x 8 inch baking dish that has been sprayed with non stick spray. Smooth out the pudding and set aside.
- Now in a medium sized mixing bowl, add the peeled and chopped apples, the brown sugar and cornstarch. Stir to completely coat the apples. Now, pour the apples on top of the bread pudding.
- Smooth out the apples. Now bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Until the apples are soft and caramelized a bit. Serve warm with toppings.
made this last night, its really good and easy to put together.
What kind of bread do you recommend for this recipe?
I like to use any hard loaf, like ciabatta or a French bread. I just wouldn’t use sandwich bread, it is a bit too soft.
Do you have a recipe for the vanilla glaze?
My standard quick glaze I use is 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 1/2 Tablespoons almond milk!
Made this for a potluck and it was a total hit – served it with almond milk redi whip! Thanks for a great recipe 🙂
So happy to hear that! You are very welcome!
cant wait to make this recipe. Do you pour the vanilla glaze over t the bread while it is cooking or serve it along side the dish of bread pudding.
Thank you
I drizzle it on after baking and serve extra on the side.
I threw in some Nutmeg too, and it was delicious. It kept for a few days in the fridge!
I’m not really a bread pudding kind of gal, but my (carnivore) husband LOVES it. I made this for him and he told me it was amazing and he wants me to make it again! I did NOT make the glaze but instead topped with a little drizzle of maple syrup.
Next time I make I think I will add some pecans to the bread pudding portion for a bit of crunch.
This one is a keeper for sure!
had a lot of bread we didn’t like, so i made this & it turned out really great. very easy recipe too, thank you 🙂 definitely wish i added some nutmeg though!