Sweet Leftovers: Birthday Cake Bread Pudding Recipe for Serious Eats

When you have over 30 birthday cakes, you've got to do something with the leftovers. And you can only eat so much Birthday Cake French Toast.

Having found myself in such a situation following my recent 30th birthday party, I decided to get creative with the leftovers. Naturally, on the list was employing a trusted bread pudding recipe, but swapping leftover birthday cake for the called-for carbohydrate.

This makes for a deliciously buttery, buttercream-studded variety of bread pudding, soft and sweet in the middle, and punctuated by sweet, crunchy bits of frosting on top, which reached a semi-caramelized state during the baking process. Happy post-birthday, indeed.

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Well Bread: Christmas Leftover GingerBread Pudding for Serious Eats

Christmas is over, over, over.

But what to do with all those holiday leftovers?

Resist the urge to do anything rash like start New Year's Resolutions early. Instead, make the best of the rest of the year by combining your leftover eggnog, gingerbread, and some butter and eggs to form a delicious GingerBread Pudding. It's easy as can be to make, and very forgiving with substitutions. Want to make it with cinnamon rolls or doughnuts instead of gingerbread? Go ahead, sweet stuff! As Tiny Tim might say, Merry post-Christmas, every one!

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