This was amazing. This was my first time ever making bread pudding - but I love bread pudding without raisens and love banana bread - so when I had too many ripe bananas and too many Costco rolls left over this receipe was perfect. I ended up letting it be in the refridge for about 16-17 hours, as I prepared it mid day and cooked it the next morning - I was concerned it might be too soggy, but not at all. I also made this recipe without walnuts - as a personal preference. Preparing this dish was super, super easy.

Ya know, I love a good bread pudding. I can't rave enough about this. I have issues with baking with bananas other then banana bread. I just don't like desserts baked with bananas. It just something about bananas baked, just I don't know, the flavors are weird. But give me a banana bread, and we are good to go. SO having said that.. I did have bananas that needed to be used, but I didn't want the "stand by" of banana bread. trying different recipes. I saw this and thought...geesh what could happen. What did happen is I fell in love with this breakfast treat. My husband was the same, bread puddings are his fave. I will say, I didn't have day old French bread, but did have an abdunance of different selections, that was getting to that point. Any good yeasted bread will work. And as far as the rest of the recipe, I followed to a T. I love the additon of the spices because they really made the flavor of the banana stand out with the compliments of the cinnamon. And there was no taste lingering from the coconut milk...which I expected to taste. Thank you soo much for the recipe. I was able to use up excess bananas, bread and coconut milk...all in one shot and enjoyed it termendously! No one in my house turned away from asking for seconds.

Holy cow! This is close-your-eyes-and-say-mmmm delicious! I didn't and wouldn't change a thing. Not for the calorie-counter, this is rich, dense, and all about the banana. It's a plan ahead kind of dessert as you really do need to let it sit and soak the full 8 hrs to maximize the yumminess. Yes, you can cut it into pieces; good bread pudding is like that. The coconut milk adds more richness than coconut flavor, though a hint of coconut does come through. I really like this best at room temp, if you can wait that long. A real show-stopper.

Expectations are everything and this didn’t turn out the way I expected. I was hoping for a bread pudding that leaned toward the lighter side with a custard like texture, but this turned out dense and heavy. It was so dense that it could be cut into solid pieces like a piece of cake. Talk about banana, banana, banana! The coconut milk was the ingredient that attracted me to this recipe and I couldn’t even taste it. I ended up making a rum sauce and poured it over the top for a contrasting flavor. All in all, it was good, but nothing I would make again.

This sounded like a good bread pudding recipe but I didn't want a banana flavor so i substituted 1 1/2 cups of Vanilla pudding for the mashed banana - it turned out DIVINE!!! Served it warm with 1/2 and 1/2 poured over it, delicious!