This Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding is knock your socks off amazing! The kind of dessert that you secretly eat right from the pan when no one else is looking!

On a white plate, the Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding is topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and caramel is being drizzled right on top. - 1

Bread Pudding is one of my very favorite recipes, and makes for an absolutely delicious dessert. I love that this is a holiday spin on that classic, and I think you are going to love it too.

Bread Pudding

How to Make Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding

This is a brief overview of how to make this delicious recipe. For the full recipe with all of the measurements, see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

  1. Make a cranberry sauce. For this recipe we are combining cranberries with butter and brown sugar for a rich and delicious cranberry sauce.
  2. Mix up the custard. Combine the eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, vanilla, orange liqueur, orange zest, and granulated sugar.
  3. Put it all together. Mix the bread with the custard so it is fully coated. Then add in the cranberry mixture.
  4. Bake it up.
In a glass casserole dish, a spoon is scooping into the Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding showing the speckles of red from the cranberries. - 2

Drying Bread for Bread Pudding

A key step to this recipe is letting the bread dry out. That will allow the custard mixture to soak into the bread really well. You can do this by putting the bread in the oven for 30 minutes at 250 degrees after cutting it up. Another option is to leave the bread out on a pan after cutting it up.

On a white plate, the Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding has beautiful golden color with speckles of red from the cranberries. - 3

Orange Liqueur

I love the addition of the orange liqueur in this recipe. It adds such a great punch of flavor. I like using Cointreau in this recipe, but triple sec will work as well.

If you would prefer to leave this alcohol free, you can replace it with orange juice instead.

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Orange Zest

Zest of a citrus fruit is a great way to bring more of the flavor of that fruit to a recipe. The juice will add some flavor, but the zest really packs a punch. It is why we use lemon zest in my lemon curd and lime zest in my Key Lime Pie .

When you are zesting fruit, be sure to zest just the very exterior of the fruit. You should stop before you hit the white part just under the skin.

Zester

Leftovers

Store the leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to four days. This recipe is delicious right out of the oven and warm, but it is also great cold.

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More Holiday Recipes

  • Cranberry Orange Bread
  • Cranberry French Toast Casserole
  • Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake

If you try this recipe or any of my other recipes, leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups fresh cranberries
  • 2 TBSPs butter
  • 2 TBSPs brown sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 TBSP vanilla
  • 1 TBSP orange liqueur you can sub with orange juice
  • 1/2 TBSP orange zest
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 10 cups cut up bun bread roughly 9 3 inch slider buns

Instructions

  • In a medium sauce pan, combine the cranberries, butter, and brown sugar. Cook, stirring until the cranberries have just begun to pop and break down. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
  • In a large bowl, combine the eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, vanilla, orange liqueur, orange zest, and granulated sugar. Whisk until fully combined.
  • Add the cut up slider buns. Stir until the bread is completely covered with the egg mixture. Stir in the cooled cranberries. Let sit for 20 minutes so that it soaks up the egg mixture.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9 by 13 inch baking dish by spraying it with cooking spray.
  • Once ready, pour the mixture into the pan and spread into an even layer.
  • Bake, uncovered, for 35 to 40 minutes or until it begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
  • Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.
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Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • 2 cups fresh cranberries
  • 2 TBSPs butter
  • 2 TBSPs brown sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 TBSP vanilla
  • 1 TBSP orange liqueur you can sub with orange juice
  • 1/2 TBSP orange zest
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 10 cups cut up bun bread roughly 9 3 inch slider buns

Instructions

  • In a medium sauce pan, combine the cranberries, butter, and brown sugar. Cook, stirring until the cranberries have just begun to pop and break down. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.

  • In a large bowl, combine the eggs, whole milk, heavy cream, vanilla, orange liqueur, orange zest, and granulated sugar. Whisk until fully combined.

  • Add the cut up slider buns. Stir until the bread is completely covered with the egg mixture. Stir in the cooled cranberries. Let sit for 20 minutes so that it soaks up the egg mixture.

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9 by 13 inch baking dish by spraying it with cooking spray.

  • Once ready, pour the mixture into the pan and spread into an even layer.

  • Bake, uncovered, for 35 to 40 minutes or until it begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.

  • Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.

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