Coconut Bread Pudding From Puerto Ricobudin De Coco De Puerto Rico Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish with butter, and dust with confectioners' sugar.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, egg yolk, coconut milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and coconut extract. Mix until smooth. Stir in 1 cup of flaked coconut, and 1/2 cup fresh coconut. Fold in bread cubes until evenly coated. Pour into prepared baking dish. Set aside for 30 minutes.
• Bake on a cookie sheet in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Sprinkle top with remaining 1/2 cup flaked coconut. Continue baking for 25 to 30 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly tapped.

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add milk; stir until smooth. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Cook and stir 1-2 minutes longer or until thickened., Remove from the heat; pour into dessert dishes. Cool slightly. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Just before serving, sprinkle with cinnamon.

Steps:

• Mix coconut milk, evaporated milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon together in a bowl or blender until sugar dissolves and mixture is thoroughly combined.
• Pour mixture into ice trays or popsicle molds. Freeze 8 hours to overnight.

Steps:

• Mix together coconut milk, milk and half-and-half in a large mixing bowl. Fold the bread into the liquid, making certain all the cubes are moistened. Allow the bread to soak while you beat together the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract in a small mixing bowl. Add egg mixture to the soaked bread. Stir in 1/2 cup of the coconut flakes and the raisins.
• Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan with 1 tablespoon butter. Spoon the batter into the pan and sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons coconut flakes on top.
• Bake on the upper rack of a preheated 350 degrees F oven until the bread pudding has set and is golden brown on top, about 45 minutes. Cut the bread pudding into squares and serve hot, warm, or chilled, on its own or with mango slices.

Steps:

• Bring 1 cup of water to a boil in a small saucepan over high heat. Add the cinnamon sticks, cloves, and anise seeds. Cover, and set aside to steep for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine 2 tablespoons water with 1/2 cup sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally to dissolve the sugar completely, but stop stirring once the mixture comes to a boil. Stay near the stove to monitor the color, swirling the pan gently to redistribute the caramel as the sugar begins to darken. Cook to about 310 degrees F (160 degrees C), or until the sugar turns light golden brown, then pour into a 9x5 inch loaf pan. Set aside to allow the caramel to harden.
• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Remove the crusts from the day-old bread, tear the bread into cubes, and place into a large mixing bowl. Strain the spice tea through a fine mesh sieve to remove the spices. Add to the bread along with the evaporated milk. Stir to evenly moisten, and set aside for 10 minutes. Whisk the eggs in a large mixing bowl along with 1 1/2 cups of sugar, the vanilla extract, salt, and melted butter. Stir in the moistened bread mixture until evenly mixed. Pour into the loaf pan over the caramel.
• Line a roasting pan with a damp kitchen towel. Place the loaf pan on the towel, inside roasting pan, and place roasting pan on oven rack. Fill roasting pan with boiling water to reach halfway up the sides of the loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for about an hour, then refrigerate until cold, 2 hours more. When ready, invert the budin onto a serving plate. The caramel will have turned to a syrup and will cover the budin like a sauce.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with rack in center. Butter eight 6-ounce ramekins or custard cups; set aside. Arrange bread in a single layer on two rimmed baking sheets; bake until crisp, tossing once, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven. Reduce oven heat to 300 degrees.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together eggs, granulated sugar, milks, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. Stir in toasted bread; let sit, tossing occasionally, until bread has absorbed liquid, about 5 minutes.
• Divide bread mixture evenly among ramekins. Place on a baking sheet; bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a pudding comes out clean, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Let cool. Serve dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F
• Soak bread in warm milk.
• Beat eggs yolks and 1 egg white.
• Gradually add evaporated milk, almond extract and sugar.
• Add mixture to bread and milk, then add 1 1/2 cup of coconut and butter.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes or until spatula comes out clean when inserted in center of pudding.
• For meringue :.
• Beat egg whites until fluffy, gradually adding sugar and almond extract.
• Continue beating until stiff.
• Pour over pudding.
• Sprinkle with coconut.
• Bake at 325 F for 5-7 minutes until slightly brown.