Recipes

Strawberries & Cream Skillet Bread Pudding

Bread pudding is a classic dessert, but we’ve reinvented it for breakfast with fresh strawberries and maple syrup. Serve with dollop of Greek yogurt.

Cast Iron

Strawberries & Cream Skillet Bread Pudding
Prep 25 minutes
Cook 25 minutes
Serves 4-6
Level Medium

Bread pudding is a classic dessert, but we’ve reinvented it for breakfast with fresh strawberries and maple syrup. Serve with dollop of Greek yogurt.

Ingredients

  • 6 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup Cabot Greek Vanilla Yogurt

½ cup half-and-half

  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

½ cup sugar

  • 1 pound sourdough bread, crusts removed and cubed
  • 1 tablespoon softened Cabot unsalted butter
  • 1 quart strawberries, hulled and sliced, divided
  • 1 tablespoon turbinado or coarse sanding sugar
  • Whipped cream and maple syrup for serving

Directions

  1. Whisk eggs, milk, Cabot Greek Vanilla Yogurt, half-and-half and vanilla in a large bowl. Add
  2. sugar and whisk until combined. Add bread and stir to combine. Cover and refrigerate 4

hours or overnight.

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 10.25 Inch Skillet with butter.
  2. Re-stir the bread mixture. Spread half of the bread mixture into the bottom of the skillet. Top
  3. with about ¾ of the strawberries. Top with the remaining bread mixture and any remaining
  4. batter from the bowl can be drizzled over the top. Spritz a square of parchment paper
  5. 28
  6. (roughly 10 x 10 inches) with cooking spray. Lay the parchment paper, spray side down over
  7. the bread pudding. Cover tightly over the edges with foil and transfer to the oven.
  8. Bake until steaming hot, and puffed in the center, 40-50 minutes. Remove parchment paper

and foil and sprinkle with the turbinado sugar.

  1. Return to the oven and bake until the top is browned, 20-30 minutes.
  2. Remove from the oven and let cool 10-30 minutes before serving with the remaining
  3. strawberries, maple syrup and whipped cream.

Notes

From the Lodge Cast Iron cookbook I picked up during my visit to the Lodge Museum of Cast Iron in South Pittsburg, Tennessee (June 2026). Contributed by Lodge Cast Iron. Recommended cookware: Cast Iron Deep Skillet.

Source: Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook — Lodge Museum of Cast Iron, South Pittsburg, TN