Heavenly Bananas Foster Bread Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• For the bread and syrup: Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
• Toast the bread cubes on a baking sheet until they start to dry and harden, about 20 minutes. Set aside.
• Raise the oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with butter.
• Meanwhile, to make the syrup, add the butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, rum, vanilla and cinnamon to a small saucepan over medium-high heat and cook, stirring frequently, until the butter is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer until the mixture is thickened, 3 to 4 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly, about 10 minutes.
• For the custard: Whisk together the heavy cream, milk, brown sugar, granulated sugar, rum, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, whole eggs and yolks in a large bowl. Add the bread, pecans and half of the syrup and stir until completely coated (reserve the other half of the syrup for later). Cover and let soak for about 30 minutes, pushing the bread down occasionally so that all the cubes are soaked.
• Thinly slice 4 of the bananas and fold into the bread mixture. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Bake until the custard is set and the top is golden brown, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan.
• Thinly slice the remaining banana and scatter on top of the bread. Drizzle with the reserved syrup. Serve warm, at room temperature or cold with ice cream, if desired.

Steps:

• For the pudding: Fold together pudding, cream and orange zest in a large bowl until combined.
• Pour a very thin layer of honey or corn syrup on a small plate. Make a pile of gold sanding sugar on another small plate. Hold a coupe glass upside down and gently tap the rim in the honey (a little goes a long way). Immediately roll the edge of the glass in the sanding sugar and place upright to dry. Repeat with 3 more coupe glasses.
• Dollop about 1/4 cup pudding mixture into the bottom of each glass. Top with a layer of crumbled cookies, then a layer of banana slices and another 1/4 cup pudding. Chill until ready to serve, up to 2 hours.
• For the bananas Foster: When you are ready to serve, melt the butter in a medium nonstick skillet. Add brown sugar and cook until sugar dissolves. Stir in bananas until coated well. Take off the heat and carefully add rum, then light with a lighter or match and let burn until the liquor burns off. Let bananas cool slightly, then add a spoonful of bananas to each of the glasses. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, ¼ cup of brown sugar, vanilla, 1 tablespoon rum and 1 teaspoon salt. Add the bread, and stir so that it absorbs the liquid. Set aside to soak.
• Butter a 2-quart baking dish, and place it on a baking sheet. Line the bottom of the dish with banana coins, then spoon about ½ of the soaked bread over them. Top with banana coins, and spoon the remaining soaked bread over the top. Bake for 40 minutes, then sprinkle with the tablespoon of white sugar. Continue baking until the pudding is puffed and golden on top, approximately 50 to 60 minutes total.
• Meanwhile, make the sauce. Melt the butter in a small sauce set over medium heat. Add the remaining brown sugar, cream, remaining rum and salt, and whisk until combined. Simmer, whisking, until the sauce has thickened, approximately 5 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat and keep warm.
• Serve the pudding warm, with some of the sauce drizzled over the top, alongside vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• 1. Tear bread into pieces in large bowl.
• 2. In separate bowl, whisk eggs, milk, and sugar, until well blended. Stir in vanilla extract, cinnamon, rum, liqueur, pecans, and bananas.
• 3. Pour mixture over bread pieces, mix well, and let stand for 10 minutes.
• 4. Place mixture into a 13x9 inch, buttered baking dish and cover with foil. Place baking dish in a larger shallow baking pan filled with 2 inches of water.
• 5. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 10 to 15 more minutes or until golden brown, and a knife comes out clean.
• 6. Rum Sauce: Bring whipping cream to a light boil in large saucepan, over medium heat, stirring often. Add brown sugar and continue to cook for about 5 minutes, or until dissolved and smooth, stirring often. Remove from heat and stir in rum, butter, pecans, and vanilla. Let cool for about 10 minutes. Ladle over bread pudding.
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Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spread out angel cake cubes on a large rimmed baking sheet. Bake 20 minutes, tossing three times, until lightly toasted and dry. Turn off oven.
• Whisk milk, eggs, sugar, rum and vanilla extract in a large bowl until sugar is dissolved. Gently stir in cake cubes and banana slices; pour into an 8-inch square baking dish. Cover dish with foil. Let stand 30 minutes at room temperature at room temperature for cake cubes to absorb most of the milk mixture.
• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake, covered, 30 minutes. Remove foil; continue to bake 25 minutes or until pudding is set.
• Let stand 15 minutes. Dust top with confectioners sugar. Server with small scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• Slice French bread and dry in a 200F oven for 20 minutes.
• Combine remaining pudding ingredients in a large container and blend well with a hand mixer.
• Thinly slice dried French bread and place in an 8 x 10 x 2-inch pan.
• Pour pudding into pan and mush all bread by hand so that the liquid is absorbed and the bread becomes very soggy.
• Be sure to flatten all of the lumps.
• Cover pan with foil and bake at 300 F for 2 ½ hours, or until a skewer inserted in the center of the pudding comes out dry.
• Remove foil and bake for an additional 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Set aside to cool.
• Foster Sauce:.
• Melt butter in a sauce pot.
• Add the brown sugar and cinnamon and mix well.
• Add the rum and ignite.
• Allow the flames to subside.
• Then, stir in the banana liqueur.
• Add fresh bananas and simmer over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until the sauce coats the spoon.
• To Serve: Cut bread pudding into 3 ½ x 3 ½-inch squares.
• Top warm bread pudding with Foster sauce and garnish with mint leaves.

Steps:

• Beat cream cheese & sweetened condensed milk. Add in pudding mix, milk and vanilla and beat until completely mixed. In a separate bowl, beat heavy cream until soft peaks form. Add powdered sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form. Set 1 1/2 cups aside. Fold remaining whipped cream into pudding mixture. Line the bottom of a large trifle dish or bowl with with vanilla wafers, top with 1 sliced banana. Spread 1 1/2 cups of pudding mixture over top. Repeat layers 3 more times ending with pudding.Top with remaining whipped cream. Cover and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.