This Low Carb Bread Pudding is a keto, nut free, gluten free breakfast, brunch or dessert recipe!
Low Carb Bread Pudding
Bread pudding is a classic recipe made with stale bread and milk or cream, plus eggs to make a nice custard type dessert. Usually it's a sweet dessert recipe but you can also find some savory bread pudding recipes online as well. This recipe for low carb bread pudding uses my low carb coconut flour bread as the base, dried overnight and soaked in delicious cream and spices for the ultimate, tasty, keto breakfast or brunch or dessert to share with family and friends.
Easy Keto Bread
We start with my amazing, gluten free, nut free, keto coconut flour bread. This recipe does require you to make it ahead for best results. I'd suggest baking it the day before. Once cooled and cut into bite size cubes allow it to dry out on the counter overnight, without covering it. This will help the bread soak up all the cream mixture the next day when you prepare this bread pudding recipe.
Christmas Morning Bread Pudding
This beautiful bread pudding was our Christmas morning breakfast and my whole family loved it! Of course I added some sugar free chocolate chunks and fresh cranberries to make it look a bit more festive and pretty for Christmas morning. Add-ins are totally optional!
Is Allulose a Keto Sweetener
A new- to- me keto sweetener is allulose. I've been a fan of stevia and erythritol for a long time as you will often find both of those in my dessert recipes. Often though I hear complaints about both as an having aftertaste. So I started investigating allulose as an alternative sugar free sweetener and here's what I've learned:
- is a monosaccharide or simple sugar, absorbed by the body, but not metabolized so it's very low in calories and won't spike blood sugar.
- it's a very rare sugar, though naturally occurring in a few foods like figs, raisins and jackfruit.
- it's 70% as sweet as table sugar.
- doesn't seem to have any effect on blood glucose and might actually help improve insulin sensitivity.
- about 75% of the allulose you consume is excreted in your urine. This means that it has very low fermentation in the gut, which means you shouldn't have any bloating, gas or just upset like can sometimes occur for some people who ingest erythritol or xylitol.
I tested this product out in this recipe. It did not disappoint. There was no aftertaste, no grainy texture, no stomach upset and absorbed nicely as a topping on my keto bread pudding. In my opinion, it has just about the same sweetness as using Swerve in a recipe, about 70% as sweet as table sugar. I don't mind less sweetness in my desserts as I've been sugar free since 2004 but you may need to add more if you're used to typical sweet desserts. Overall, I would highly recommend allulose as a safe, keto friendly sweetener.
Tools to Make Low Carb Bread Pudding
8 by 4 loaf pan- I love using ceramic loaf pans for all my bread recipes. I feel it gives a nice crusty outer texture and cooked so evenly.
9 by 13 Ceramic baking dish- Whether it's for a dessert, or a savory casserole like my Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole, you always can use a 9 by 13 baking dish.
Baking sheet pans- You will need a large sheet pan to cut the bread up in cubes and allow it to sit out on the counter overnight to dry.
Vegetable peeler-This is optional and not necessary but I use a vegetable peeler for shaving chocolate over my sugar free whipped cream to make this bread pudding look a bit more fancy to serve.
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Low Carb Bread Pudding (Nut Free, Gluten Free, Keto)
Keto Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 8 slices My Low CarbCoconut Flour Bread cubed, dried overnight
- 6 large eggs beaten
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 1 cup Swerve brown sugar sub
- 1 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- pinch salt
Optional topping
- ⅓ cup frozen cranberries
- 1 ounce sugar free chocolate chips or bar broken in chunks
- sugar free whipped cream to serve
Topping
- ½ stick butter melted
- ½ cup liquid Allulose
Instructions
- Prepare my coconut flour bread the day before you plan to make this bread pudding. You'll have 14 slices of bread but only need 8 slices for this recipe. Once baked and cooled, slice bread into 1 inch cubes and lay on a baking sheet to dry overnight on the counter. If you don't have time for this step, you can toast the cubes in a 350 degree oven for 5-10 minutes to dry the bread out.
- Grease a 9 by 13 baking dish. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Pour the dried cubed bread into the greased dish.
- In a bowl stir together the remaining ingredients and pour over the cubed bread.
- If adding in optional toppings, sprinkle those all over the bread. If not using optional toppings skip this step.
- Mix together the melted butter and allulose sweetener or choice sweetener and pour all over the bread.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes or until center is set and bread is browned.
Notes
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About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Jenny Wannamaker
When you use like a dozen eggs why isn't your cholesterol sky high in your recipes? It seems wrong for healthy people
Brenda Bennett
Why in the world are you rating this recipe a 2 when you haven't made it? As far as cholesterol goes, we need it and dietary cholesterol does not increase blood cholesterol.
Chris Houck
My daughter loves bread pudding, but I've never been a fan, probably because of all the bread - ha ha..... But, this recipe? I'm going to make it!!
Thank you for all your amazing recipes!
susan purdy
I made this with the Franz Keto bread which Costco carries, as it has zero carbs and I didn't have to make the bread. A bit lazy 🙂 It turned out great, but next time I will cut down on the brown sugar. Also, I didn't have the liquid allulose, so melted the butter and added confectioners sugar. Of course, now it was thick - so put it in the microwave and it melted down a little and just patted it on top of the pudding. Turned out great!
Christina M
I've just discovered your site, and am keen to make your appealing recipes! I had not heard of allulose before, so will look for it locally - I did buy the Stevia sweetener for baking and - in my opinion anyway - it tasted dreadful. I made my decades-old favourite brownies recipe and couldn't even swallow the first bite. As I have been watching carbs after having piled on some weight after not being active due to a leg injury, I am keen to find a sweetener that will satisfy the periodic desire for just a little something sweet!
Sam Visser
Mouthwatering dish !! I will surely make this recipe. Thanks for sharing this lovely recipe ?