Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding & a Give-A-Way
By kmorganmoss • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Desserts •
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My first experience eating Krispy Kreme donuts was when one of my daughters went on a class trip to the Krispy Kreme bakery in Atlanta. They needed a chaparone and seeing that I have a thing for donuts-I volunteered before looking at my schedule. I was going no matter what.
It was only natural for me to zero in on this recipe making sure that the big box of donuts that I bought had stayed untouched, while they dried out just in time to do a little baking. This is not the thick gloppy recipe made with condensed milk, like so many of the other Southern recipes floating around.
The above two paragraphs is all that is left of my original post, that I completed late last night. I am not the first blogger to loose what was written and I won’t be the last. This is one of the perils of blogging. It was only a few days ago that I lost the images to my Salmon Croquettes. I foolishly did not write a document doing a cut and paste and spell-check ate up my words and left me with two paragraphs.
Krispy Kremes are the sacred donuts of the South, and being a donut lover-I expected more considering all the fan-fare about them. But even experiencing them hot out of the oven years ago has not changed my mind. They are just okay. Of course this was a set-up, making a bread pudding from an okay donut. But, I am an optimist and was hoping for more. After this experience, I still think Kripsy Kreme donuts are okay.
This recipe called for Jack Daniels in the batter and sauce. My husband had the honors of pouring the Jack Daniels, in case you were wondering if I had broken Kitchen Rule # 6. Instead of the Jack Daniels Raisin Sauce suggested to go on top, I opted for freshly sliced peaches and a touch of cream.
The pudding comes out of the oven puffy and golden. It deflates quickly so serve it from the oven to table. This is yet another one of those Southern dishes like the Bean Pie, that must be served and eaten rather quickly. Which, I might add is rather odd, especially since Southerners take their time about everything. Yet they have a knack for cooking food that you have to eat in a hurry or else………..
Now for the book give-a-way. Don’t drool too hard, only one book is being given away, not the whole stack. But I wanted the winner to choose the book that they wanted.
This is my way of saying thanks to all of you that read my blog, and visit me. I have made many friends along the way and appreciate the encouragement I have received. So, with that being said, the winner may choose one of my favorite Southern cookbooks and I will send a copy to them. Just leave me a comment as to, What’s your favorite kind of donut?
Thursday evening at midnight is the cut-off. The winner will be selected by a random meter and announced on Friday. This will give me a few days to figure out what a random meter is and how to use it. Good luck to you!
Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding
Adapted; Jean Anderson-A Love Affair with Southern Cooking
2 1/2 cups half & half
3 large eggs
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup Jack Daniels, optional
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
8 Krispy Kreme honey glazed donuts cut into 1 inch pieces
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Butter and prepare a 2 1/2 quart souffle dish.
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Whisk eggs, half & half, sugar, J Daniels, cinnamon, nutmeg & salt until mixed well.
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Add the donuts and press done so that it absorbs the liquid, let sit for about 5 minutes.
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Pour the mixture into the prepared dish and bake for 40-50 minutes. It will be softish in the center.
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Serve right away, with a side of fresh fruit along with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream or a touch of heavy cream to pour over.
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kmorganmoss is the aspiring writer, photographer & passionate cook of ayankeeinasouthernkitchen.com; she is currently blogging and hopes to find her calling.
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My Favorite Donut would have to be chocolate glazed donut (not frosted). I do love glazed yeast donuts too.
Mom, I know that I am not eligable to get a cookbook but I must say that a plain old glazed Krispy Kreme donut hot out isn’t too bad. But the Boston cream filled are great since I love eclairs and they are so similar. Hey next time you go on a donut run let me know as i’ll take a box. To confirm how institutional donuts are in the South…..boxes of Krispy Kremes are often given out as wedding favor gifts.
I just found your blog recently so I need to go back through the archives to read what I’ve missed!
What a great giveaway! It’s so hard to choose, but I guess I’d have to pick Screen Doors and Sweet Tea.
Mindy
That’s a vicious pudding! I’ve never had one with doughnuts, but I’m willing to try as it looks terribly good!
Wow, I’d love to win one of those great books! I really love your blog and your recipes, so keep up with the wonderful work! This kind of cuisine really interests me…
Cheers,
Rosa
I could not say NO to these…ever!
Personally, I’m not a huge fan of right-out-of-the-oven Krispy Kremes. I like them to cool off a little bit, so you get the glaze to stick a little better. Goopy glaze irks me. The pudding is an excellent idea, though. I never would’ve come up with using doughnuts as a bread pudding base. Maybe the JD sauce would’ve kicked it up from okay to something more… but no breaking the rules.
Never fear, Kim: you’re not the only one in the South who thinks that Krispy Kremes are just okay. We can be blasphemous together.
Now, if we’re talking just doughnuts in general, I prefer yeast to cake. I’m not a real big fan of cake doughnuts; texture, I guess? But I like biting into a still-warm, plain, glazed doughnut and feeling the glaze flake and the doughnut collapse between my teeth. Maybe I’m weird. Scratch that, I know I am. Brand-wise, Krispy Kremes are fine. Dunkin’ Donuts rank higher. But my favorite of all time will always be the doughnuts from the bakery at Ken’s Newmarket, the supermarket at home. It’s a Sunday specialty at Dad’s - he’ll get up before the rest of us, go to Ken’s for warm doughnuts and come back with a baker’s dozen and a Sunday paper before they get cold. My grandfather (Dad’s dad) used to do the same thing when he and my grandmother were still alive. It’s one of the best things about summertime to me - sitting in the dining room, reading the paper, drinking coffee made with sweetened condensed milk and biting down on one of those doughnuts.
(Enough of my novel. Good looking pudding, Kim!)
Sounds delicious! I have a friend who loves Krispy Kreme bread pudding, but I’m pretty sure she’s talking about the over-the-top recipe you mentioned. I’ve somehow yet to try it - maybe because it scares me a bit. Having lived my whole life in the South, I know all about Kripsy Kremes. We do have a local doughnut place (Shipley’s) that’s better in my opinion. I’m a plain donut kind of girl. I’ve never felt that they need anything else.
I just found you recently and I am so glad I did - I really love you blog.
As to my favorite doughnuts, while I do love the glazed Krispy Kremes, I have to say that they are the homemade kind my mom used to make when I was little - a rustic raised version that we dusted with sugar and cinnamon. The memories that go with them make then even tastier.
I felt the same way you do. The KK place opened here to mucho fanfar. The product was not all they said it was. But shoot even a bad donut is a good thing I think.
OMG that bread pudding…unreal is all I can say.
I’m with you. I’m not that excited about Krispy Kreme donuts…but I am excited about this recipe! It sounds incredibly fun, not to mention delicious, especially with peaches and cream on top.
My very favorite donut has to be a fresh chocolate filled, chocolate glazed, Shipley’s donut, though it has been years since I’ve had one. Sigh….
“Screen Doors and Sweet Tea”? I know I love the title. I’ll have to look up that one even if I don’t win!
I love the plain krispy kreme, but being the Yankee that I am, I like Dunkin Donuts better.
I will try this bread pudding soon. Sounds delish!
Hi Kim! Sorry I’ve been off the face of the earth lately - working and sleeping seem to be taking up every available minute - so much so that I’m not even sure I will be able to post in any of the July contests or challenges I’m interested in . . . . Shoot. But I’m having fun for sure.
I love the bread pudding. It seems like a perfect use for the donuts, which I am not wild about either. Based on the comments you’ve gotten, I’m not sure they’re anyone’s complete favorite!
My favorite american donuts are the mini-mini cake donuts they make fresh at the Pike Place Market - warm, shaken in a small bag with cinnamon sugar. My favorite Italian donut is a jelly donut with apricot jam. My favorite German donut is a yeast donut that my grandmother used to make. Um, I have to go get a donut now!! xo -L
Hands down, a warm KK! Growing up in Columbus I worked at the Ohio State Fair in the A&W booth. We would pick up the KK in the am on the way to sell at the fair. The plain are my fave, but the chocolate topped, hmmm, a close 2nd. Nice blog and great giveaway!
I love my cake donuts - my favorite is chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Let’s face it - can anyone really have enough chocolate?
I love a doughnut right about now…Looks delish…
My favorite donut is a glazed yeast donut but I also lile cream filled yeast donuts!!
Ok..I think I have died and gone to heaven!! I LOVE KK!!!We had like 3 stores in Tampa go out of business in the last few years..NOT A GOOD THING!
Mmmm, the bread pudding looks tasty - definitely going to my del.icio.us site.
My favorite doughnut would have to be the plain glazed variety.
I love kripsy kremes. All the stores in my region have closed, and that’s a real bummer. My favorite is a plain glazed yeast donut, with apple filled cinnamon-sugar topped coming in a close second.
best donuts - old fashioned with glaze (I may now have to run out and scare up one of those crunchy edged, sweet and buttermilky bits of perfection).
awesome recipe - it will be made.
xoxo, wee
Funny, a few co-workers and I were talking about Krispy Kreme today. But I agree with you, they are okay.
I think I would try this recipe with some home made doughnuts sometime! I do love bread pudding… and doughnuts….
mmmm, i think it looks fantastic!
I really think that Donuts are always best fresh. has to do with more of a moment in time than a donut. I was a child when I had my first store bought donut and my Daddy took me for a treat. They were the best and I have never had better since.
Wow, that looks really amazing! My favorite donut is from a little donut shop here in Berkeley called King Pin donuts…they are greasy, but still somehow sort of light and they taste AMAZING. They are definitely the sort of donuts that leave grease stains all over the bag, but they are super delicious. Yum!
I’m not going to lie, I think every donut pales to Krispy Kreme. When that hot donuts now sign goes on, I will pull over and buy half a dozen. Those are my favorite donuts, bar none.
My favorite donuts by far are the sour cream old-fashioned cake donuts. Oh my, I need one right now!
Just about the only donuts I’m not a fan of are the filled ones.
MMMMMMMMMM Donuts. Boston Cream for me!
One of those apple frittery things from Dunkin Donuts…
Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding - how fantastic!! Leave it to southerners to leverage one dessert into another.
I’m a glazed cruller kinda gal
Mmm….maple glazed yeast doughnuts…..my favorite!
And that pudding looks amazing, I’d been wanting to try one of those doughnut bread puddings but was put off by the addition of sweetened condensed milk…that just seemed like overkill to me. This recipe looks so much better.
Jelly donut and a great cup of Joe!
Wonderful photos!
Plain old sugar raised…Yummy. If i don’t win I’m going to buy, “Screen Doors and Sweet Tea.” That title is too adorable!
I am definitely a fan of raised, cinnamon crumb doughnuts; simply the best! And even though I am sure I am a disgrace to my family (We have been in the South since 1650!), I have to agree with you: Krispy Kreme doughnuts are just okay! (Must be because I grew up in California!)
I’d probably get things thrown at me if I were to say “Dunkin,” haha. In all honesty, I don’t like glazed doughnuts, even though I was born and raised in NC for 18 years and that was usually the only snack available. I didn’t eat snacks much as a kid for that reason! They did have this one limited run amaretto doughnut once, though, and that would probably be my favorite.
Krispy Kreme right out of the oven are my favorite! I moved up to Boston a couple of years ago and can’t them anymore though. In a pinch Boston Creme from Dunkin Donuts is good when they are fresh. I love your blog, by the way, and all of those books look so wonderful.
Ooh! Bostom Creme!
And psst - I agree with you. Krispy Kremes are just…okay.
Oh my … Talk about decadent!
I love Krispy Kreams…this bread pudding looks fantastic. Thos ecook books look fun too!
Not a fan of Krispy Kreme. I love plain ol’ cinnamon and sugar donuts - You can’t beat them fresh and hot. Delicious! Love your pudding invention though, very innovative!
there is nothing like a glazed Krispy Kreme when the hot light is on. I’ve been known to turn around when I catch that hot light, it calls me like a beacon in the dark.
My other favorite is apple cider donuts in the fall and apple filled, custard filled, lemon filled. Oh heck, I love the ALL.
Looks delicious!
I love chocolate glazed donuts and I would choose the Jean Anderson cookbook.
Thanks for having the contest!
Heh, I think Krispy Kreme bread pudding would cause a sugar overload for me, and I can handle a LOT of sugar…the addition of Jack Daniels does make it sound tasty, though!
My favorite donut and utter guilty pleasure is the pink frosted donut from Dunkin’ Donuts. Yeah, yeah, so many better donuts in the world, but that one holds a special place in my heart…at least until I find a better one
A Krispy Kreme cream filled or a white iced long john.
Thanks for that mac and cheese recipe, it was delicious! I had that with string beans and potatoes, and fried corn! I should have made some cornbread too!
glazed cruller… and chocolate-dipped churros–if those count!
I love the chocolate covered KK doughnuts with whipped cream inside.
if ever i was going to chaperone an event, it would be a visit to the krispy kreme bakery. wowza.
my favorite? toasted coconut, far and away.
Beautiful looking bread pudding. While I do love Krispy Kreme Donuts (although we no longer have them nearby)-in true Yankee style my favorite doughnut would be Dunkin Donuts Bavarian Cream Filled.
I miss Krispy Kreme, or any donuts for that matter. Up North here, all we can get is supermarket donuts. Ugh! I should probably figure out how to make them and speed up my metabolism at the same time.
What a generous giveaway, if I won’t I don’t even know if I’d be able to choose!
If I have to pick a favorite…it would be the original glazed Krispy Kreme! I lived about a mile from the originial store in Atlanta and the smell just makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning!!! I miss that smell…I don’t have a KK bakery where I live now.
I am going to try this bread pudding as it sounds AMAZING! Great idea.
Bavarian Cream. I am not at all a fan of the vanilla pudding sort of filling — it has got to be fresh whipped frosting (italian buttercream maybe) or nothing at all.
Chocolate glazed with colored sprinkles
Love your blog!
I’m a yankee who loves to cook Southern Food as well! My favorite doughnuts are Krispy Kreme, plain, hot out of the oven when the HOT sign is lit! Yum!
I just love a chocolate glazed cake donut with coconut on top. Yummy! Lovin’ your site!
I’m a true Southern girl so I love my Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I really like the Sour Cream Glazed Cake doughnut but you can’t go wrong with the Original Glazed hot and fresh.
Saying “I love you” might sound sudden or maybe a little bit strong of a reaction…but really, it’s the only thing that pops into my mind to say. I love you.
My favorite is the plain glazed donut from Henri’s Bakery in Atlanta. They put a pinch of nutmeg into the donuts that takes them to a whole other level!
Well, we like KK okay, but you’re right, just okay. I actually like the Entenmanns glazed pretzel doughnuts from when I was in high school. Couldn’t get enought of them.
But my favorite is a warm beignet from Cafe Du Monde - does that count?
I love the pretty donuts-white frosting and sprinkles! I bet this bread pudding would cure a really bad sweet tooth! Screen doors and sweet tea or butter beans to blackberries…hmmm…
I’m still on the quest for the perfect donut, though I keep reverting to KK just because it’s easily accessible. That said, the best donut I’ve had so far was a Beignet style done by a street vendor in Lambarene, Gabon — hot, light, not too sweet, and oh so delicious.
That recipe sounds so rich and decadent. Thank you.
I think my favourite donut would have to be the honey crullers from Honey’s Doughnuts in Deep Cove, BC (Canada).
OMG that donut pudding sounds crazy good. I made a caramel croissant pudding before but I think this looks even better!
As for me, it’s either KK plain original hot off the conveyor belt or a donut with pink icing and multicoloured sprinkles.
we have a local donut place that makes these delicious twists. i have never really been a fan of donuts until i moved down here and was introduced to ralph’s.
I use KK donuts in a bread pudding too and it was so yummy! Love the additions you made!
Kim:
I know, like Meredith that I am not eligible to win, too.
However, I have to inform everyone that the absolute best donuts in the world are(were)from Old Lyme, Connecticut.
“Beach Donuts”!!!
Unfortunately, for all your readers the original beach donuts is not
available any longer, just the wonderful memories of last summer and many summers prior.
There was nothing like getting up on a hot summer morning, and heading
to the beach, still in pajamas, with your best cup of coffee from home. You could smell the donuts a 1/2 mile away just waiting for us.
Like the other 100+ people who need the fix, we’d patiently wait in line, just inhaling that lucious scent. Your stomach goes into overdrive as you get closer and closer to moment of heaven. When you finally hear “Next”, and you know it is your turn, you just explode the words, “a dozen raised cinnamon sugar cruellers, please”.
The box is almost too hot to the touch, as you hurry to curb, feeling as if you have struck gold, totally focused on cutting the taped edge and getting the box open.
Our daughters are yelling, “Hurry,Mom,hurry. We can’t wait any longer”.
My husband, “E”, our two daughters “M” and “O”, and myself, all reach in
at the same time.
From that moment until they are all gone, not a word is spoken,
just the moans and groans of total food satisfaction.
The best!!!
What a good use of a mediocre product!
I want to have this pudding for dinner tonight! Potato doghnuts are my faves :)…you just gave me an idea to come up with a savoury doughnut recipe…putting my thinking cap on
Most freshly made doughnut sends me into ecstasy, but even after 18 years of living in the south, I never cottoned to Krispy Kreme doughnuts. What I really miss is biscuits with sausage cream gravy, North Carolina barbecue, and hush puppies. However, I was impressed by the Krispy Kreme bread pudding! What I Iove about southern cooking is that it can take a mundane ingredient and turn it into ambrosia.
Lemon filled hands down!!
Love the site!! I drool over it every day!
Cream filled chocolate. Yum!!
Kim, I guess this donut variety is a Southern specialty. I haven’t heard about them here. The pudding looks incredibly delicious.
Those look really good. That’s a great giveaway.
WoW~ I found you just in the nick of time!
first I get to win a cookbook, then I also get just a pinch of that Krispy Kreme bread pudding.
I’ve died and gone to heaven.
Looks very yummy… I’m not a huge fan of Krispy Kreme donuts and find it a tad annoying seeing people lined up around the block when the “hot” sign is lit. That being said, I do really like sour cream glazed donuts from Tim Horton’s (Canadian)…
Cheers!
I read about this in a Linda Howard suspense novel once and my mouth has been watering for it ever since. I love your blog! You’re such a cooking inspiration!
I think you have to be raised eating Krispy Kreme to truly appreciate them. Once your sweet tooth is honed on their soft, sugar-glazed goodness, other donuts just don’t evoke the same nostalgia and satisfaction.
That being said, I think the Bavarian Creme are my favorite! Although the Cruellers run a close second.
Screen Doors and Sweet Tea has to be a great book, if the title is any indication.
Thanks for the great blog and many hours of mouth-watering entertainment.
2 day’s late and a dollar short
look at you go…
blog looks wonderful
you’re picking up steam in a big way
i’m a fan!
Not having had that many donuts in my life I’d say that Krispy Kreme are my favorites…I have been known to inhale quite a few in one sitting
our krisy kreme closed down about a year ago… but my favorite doughnut is just the plain cake ones, i’m not so sure what it says about me but those are my favorites.
I’ve made krispy kreme bread pudding before too and it was delicious! Yours looks soooo yummy!
Had this at my dinner party this week and it was a hit. I love Boston Cream Doughnuts and Powdered Cake Doughnuts the “bestest”!!!!!!
OK, So I am utterly shocked that no one else chose sour cream donuts. I know I missed the deadline, the winner is probably reading the book already. Just thought I should awaken you FOODIES to THE REAL best donut. It is the sour cream donut from Dunkin Donuts. I used to work in landscaping, and would HAVE to stop in every morning early before opening to get my coffee fix (theirs is the best) and two, yes… they are THAT worth it, donuts to start my day.
I’ve loved reading all the comments on donuts. My Father owned and operated his own Donut Shop in Leesburg Fl. for 37 years called Oscar’s Donuts. I worked right by his side. Before that, he was a trouble shooter for Dunkin Donuts–he took any shop that was failing and turned it back around—. Without a doubt I have never had donuts as good as Daddy made them. We had over 35 different varieties and he made the best apple fritters in the world. He was a master donut maker and took great pride in his trade. We made our own bavarian creme and cooked our own raspberry jelly, made our own honey glaze from scratch and also made the vanilla, chocolate and maple icing from scratch. We had jelly and bavarian creme filled rolled in a very fine granulated sugar, lemon rolled in a special powdered sugar and apple in cinnamon powdered sugar. We also made old fashioned cake donuts (the kind with the nutmeg flavor) devils food chocolate and buttermilk cake–which beats sour cream donuts hands down in the flavor dept. We glazed, frosted, powdered, sugared, coconuted and crumbed donuts. We made cinnamon twists, apple basted cinnamon rolls, fritters that where the apple was finely chopped into the dough and a wonderful cinnamon raised donut called a Butterfly. And we rolled out each dough individually and handcut each donut individually. It was hard work but worth it all when people would comment how much they loved Oscar’s. We served 3 generations of the same families. It was great.
My family has a lot of good bakers in it and my sister-in-law has a scratch bakery (including made from scratch donuts) in Calhoun, Ga. and a cousin has the same kind of bakery in Rockmart.
Thanks for the memories. I sure wish I had a butterfly donut right now–or maybe a glazed buttermilk-hmmmmm.