Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding

Name: Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 cups cubed cinnamon rolls (homemade or store-bought) – about 4-6 cinnamon rolls; 5 eggs; 1 cup brown sugar; 3 cups milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; ½ cup powdered sugar; 4 teaspoons milk; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

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This easy recipe for cinnamon roll bread pudding takes leftover cinnamon rolls and bakes them up into a decadent pan of soft and sweet dessert. Perfect for a holiday brunch treat!

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Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding

Why we love this recipe

Oh, this luxurious, decadent, mouthwatering recipe. It started with one of my mama’s recipes.. her cinnamon rolls. Warm, fat, tender rolls bursting with cinnamon and brown sugar flavor…they are a Christmas tradition in my house.

There is only one issue with them, and that is that my mama usually gives us two trays of them. 24 glorious cinnamon rolls.

And there are four of us, not counting the dog, who is not getting any cinnamon rolls.

Now, I can eat cinnamon rolls with the best of them, but inevitably there are leftover cinnamon rolls, which is how this recipe was born! Yep, I chopped those extra rolls into pieces, marinated them in a mixture of eggs and milk and brown sugar (think French toast!), poured the whole thing into a pan and baked it up until it was golden on the top and tender on the inside.

And then I drizzled an easy vanilla glaze over the whole glorious thing. And life was good!

Ready to turn your cinnamon rolls into cinnamon roll bread pudding? Let’s make it!

Ingredients you need

Ingredients needed to make cinnamon roll bread pudding.

Ingredient notes and substitutions

Cinnamon Rolls: You can bake your own (here is our favorite classic cinnamon roll recipe) or you can use store bought rolls. You are going to need about 4 to 6 rolls depending on their size.
Milk: Either low-fat or whole milk works!
Powdered Sugar: This is the super fine sugar also known as confectioner’s sugar – look for it in the baking aisle.

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities and nutritional information.

Here’s how you make this recipe

STEP 1: You probably figured out that you start with cinnamon rolls. You want 6 cups of cinnamon rolls cut into cubes, which usually means 4 of my mama’s size rolls, or 6 of the smaller variety.

Egg and milk mixture in a bowl with a whisk.

STEP 2: Whisk the eggs, brown sugar, milk and vanilla extract together in a large bowl.

Cinnamon roll bread pudding mixture in a bowl.

STEP 3: Stir in the cinnamon roll pieces until they are nice and coated, and let the whole glorious mixture sit for an hour (you can leave it overnight if you like)

STEP 4: Preheat oven to 350 and butter a 13 x 9 inch baking dish.

Cinnamon roll bread pudding ready for the oven.

STEP 5: Pour the bread pudding mixture into the baking dish.

STEP 6: Cover the casserole with foil.

STEP 7: Bake up your bread pudding for 45 minutes.

STEP 8: Once the pudding is done, mix up some powdered sugar with a little milk and vanilla.

STEP 9: Drizzle the glaze all over the top of the pudding, let it sit for 5 minutes and then serve it up! You can either cut it into neat squares or you can just scoop it out.

Oh my goodness.

I highly recommend eating a bowl of this pudding while it is still warm.

I also highly recommend throwing caution utterly to the wind and topping it with ice cream.

Cinnamon roll bread pudding with ice cream on top.

Recipe FAQs

Can this recipe be made ahead?

It can! You have two options here…you can put the cubed rolls and the egg mixture together and let it sit until you are ready to bake, or you can make the whole thing as much as a day ahead, including the glaze.

How long will this bread pudding last?

This pudding will last for up to 5 days in the fridge (cover it with plastic wrap and let it come to room temperature before serving).

Where can I find cinnamon rolls?

You can find them in the bakery section of your grocery store…you can also bake them up from the kind in the can, which you can find in the dairy section.

Have a question that I didn’t cover?

Pop your question in the Comments section under the recipe card and I will answer pronto!

Happy merry everything. :)

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