If you also have leftover Hawaiian rolls and you’re wondering what else you can do with them, we have a great list of Recipes Using Hawaiian Rolls.

There are recipes for a breakfast casserole, Hawaiian roll sliders, and more.

Hawaiian Roll Bread Pudding Recipe

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Hawaiian Roll Bread Pudding Ingredients:

You can get the full list of ingredients with measurements in the recipe card below.

• Hawaiian rolls – Any brand of sweet Hawaiian rolls works.
• Eggs – You want large eggs.
• Heavy cream – This adds a deep flavor to the custard.
• Milk – This adds liquid without adding too much sweetness and provides balance to the heavy cream.
• Pure vanilla extract – This adds a subtle, sweet flavor.
• Sugar – You want to use granulated white sugar for this.
• Cinnamon – This spice adds warmness to the bread pudding.

How To Make Hawaiian Roll Bread Pudding:

The best bread pudding uses stale bread. Stale bread absorbs the custard mixture more than fresh bread does. This means that the bread pudding is softer and sweeter, and a more cohesive dish.

So, the night before you want to make the bread pudding, cut the Hawaiian rolls into cubes and put them in a container on the counter overnight.

I end up using the same container to bake the entire bread pudding in, so you have one less thing to wash.

I cut eight cubes per Hawaiian roll, but you don’t have to be as precise.

The custard softens the cubes and turns them into the bread pudding base. You eat it by bites, not my pieces like monkey bread, so the exact number and size of the cubes is irrelevant. Just try to make all your cubes evenly sized so the tray bakes evenly.

Put the eggs into a large mixing bowl.

Add the heavy cream.

Add the milk.

My mom pointed out that this is essentially making your own half-and-half. So, if you have half-and-half, you can just use that instead of mixing these two.

Add in the pure vanilla extract.

Add in the sugar.

And add in the cinnamon.

Quick note: If you have a cinnamon sugar blend, you can use that instead. Most people don’t, so I wrote this recipe adding them separately.

Use a fork to whisk all of the custard ingredients together.

Slowly pour the custard on top of the Hawaiian roll cubes.

You want to make sure that all of the cubes are covered with the custard mixture.

If they’re not, the dry bread may burn in the oven before the bread pudding is fully baked.

Bake for about 40 minutes until the egg is cooked through and the Hawaiian rolls are golden brown.

Quick note: If your oven runs hot, you may want to tent the bread pudding in foil for the first 30 minutes, then remove it for the last 10 minutes of baking.

Let the bread pudding cool slightly to set before cutting it into slices and serving it with vanilla syrup on top.

Hawaiian Roll Bread Pudding: Frequently Asked Questions

More Bread Pudding Recipes:

If you like bread pudding and you want to try another twist on it, try our Bread Pudding Muffins.

Those have a crumble topping on them, just like the topping we use on our coffee cake recipe. That’s a good recipe if you don’t want to make the vanilla syrup that goes with bread pudding.