Banana Bread Pudding
I know there are other moms out there that have the “banana problem”. My kids eat them great one week, and then the next week I buy them and they sit on the counter and turn brown. Then there are 4 bananas that are too brown to be pretty anymore, so the kids won’t eat them and what do you do with them?
#1 – You can make banana bread – this is typical and the kids will eat it, usually as fast as I can make it.
#2 – You can freeze the bananas! I don’t even wrap them up, I just throw them in the freezer, peel and all. They turn black and look just awful after they freeze but they will be fine.
I have a few banana recipes that I use all the time for bread and muffins even pancakes! The one I am sharing today is a new one. It’s a bread pudding that has banana and chocolate chips in it. This is a bread pudding recipe, its like traditional bread pudding with eggs and thick cubes of french bread. It is not a “quick bread” recipe and will not turn out like banana bread.
About freezing bananas: I have found that as the bananas defrost, they get “slimy”. I had heard from several people that you really could use them, so I cut the tops off and slid the slimy looking things into the batter. I thought “well, we will see”. They turned out great. No complaints, they worked great. Who Knew?
Chocolate Banana Bread Pudding
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4 eggs
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2 cups milk
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1 cup white sugar
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1 tablespoon vanilla extract
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4 cups cubed French bread
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2 bananas, sliced
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1 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 6 – 8 baby ramekins.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla until smooth.
- Add the bananas from the freezer. Stir in bread and chocolate chips, and let rest 5 minutes for bread to soak. Pour into the ramekins.
- Place the ramekins in a 9 x 13 pan and set the pan in the oven. Fill roasting pan with water to reach halfway up the sides of the loaf pan. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
I took this to my mother in laws house for dessert a few Wednesday nights ago. Reviews were mixed. Matthew doesn’t care for bread puddings, or other “wet bread” recipes like dressing at Thanksgiving, so he wasn’t impressed. The babies both ate theirs well and I thought it was “just ok”. I probably will go back to banana bread next time. Raylee really liked it and asked for it again.