Rustic Bread Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Bread Pudding
• Grease a rectangular glass baking dish. (I used a narrow and deep 3 qt baker. A wider and shallower baker may require you to drop the cooking time by 10-15 minutes.)
• Spread the bread pieces evenly in the greased baking dish.
• Melt the 5 Tbsp of butter and set aside. (I use the microwave on a low power setting to avoid washing a saucepan.)
• In a 2-3 quart bowl, ideally with a pour spout, mix the eggs and sugar, then add in the milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Finally mix in the melted butter.
• Gently pour the contents of the bowl over the bread. Use a wide spatula to press the bread downward to soak up more of the liquid.
• Cover and refrigerate for at least 12 hours, removing from the fridge at least once, partway through, in order to mix the bread, mash it down and break it up a little more.
• Preheat your oven to 350 F and remove the baking dish from the fridge. Mix, mash and break up the bread one last time before placing it in the preheated oven to bake.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, covering with foil for the final 15 minutes if the bread pudding seems to be getting too toasted.
• Let it cool at least 20 minutes before serving with the caramel sauce below, ice cream, or whipped cream.
• Caramel Sauce
• In a small saucepan, boil the butter, brown sugar, water, and salt for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat, and add the vanilla extract and 4-6 oz of evaporated milk until you reach slightly less than the thickness you prefer. (The caramel sauce will thicken a bit more as it cools.) I used 6 ounces of evaporated milk. If I were adding bourbon, I would use less evaporated milk.
• Pour or funnel the sauce into a jar. This will keep in the fridge for up to a week. Extra sauce can be frozen in a plastic container.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch baking dish.
• Arrange the bread cubes tightly in the prepared baking dish. Beat together the butter, milk, vanilla and eggs in a large bowl. Add the granulated and brown sugars and mix until dissolved. Pour the mixture over the bread.
• Put the baking dish on a baking sheet. Bake until the crust is golden brown, 55 to 70 minutes. Let rest for 20 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Saute onion in butter until slightly cooked. Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly.
• In large bowl, whisk the eggs.
• Add the milk, wine or broth, and whisk again.
• Tear the buns into medium to large pieces and add into the milk mixture.
• Soak for 5 minutes.
• Add the onion mixture, cheeses, dijon, paprika, cayenne and salt/pepper.
• Grease a casserole dish or deep pie plate.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 35 minutes or so.

Steps:

• In a 1 qt saucepan over high heat, bring dried cherries and 3/4 cup water to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 10 minutes or until cherries are tender. Grease a shallow 3 qt casserole.
• In a large bowl with wire whisk; mix milk, half -and-half, brown sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, and cinnamon until well blended. Drain cherries, add any liquid to the egg mixture. Put cherries aside. Add bread slices to the egg mixture and let soak for 10 minutes, turning slices for even soaking.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Arrange enough bread slices in bottom of casserole, in one layer, pushing slices together, to cover bottom. Sprinkle 2/3 cherries over bread in casserole. Arrange remaining bread, overlapping slices to fit, on top. Scatter last 1/3 of the cherries on top. Pour any egg mixture remaining in bowl over bread in casserole. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
• Bake bread pudding 1 hour and 30 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean, covering loosely with foil during last 10 - 15 minutes of baking if top browns too quickly. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm with whipped cream. Refrigerate leftovers.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Beat cream cheese spread and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
• Add egg whites and cinnamon; mix well.
• Gradually add milk, mixing until well blended.
• Place bread cubes in 8-inch square glass baking dish.
• Sprinkle chocolate over bread. Pour cream cheese spread mixture over bread mixture in dish.
• Bake 30 to 35 minute or until set in center. Cool slightly; serve warm. Store leftover pudding in refrigerator.

Steps:

• Grease a 10 inch round cake pan.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees with rack in middle of oven.
• Put the bread cubes in a food processor and pulse to make 1/8 inch crumbs.
• Put crumbs in large mixing bowl with lemon zest.
• Bring the milk to a simmer over medium heat and then pour over the bread to cover it completely.
• Let mixture stand for 10 minutes so the bread absorbs the milk.
• In another large bowl whisk the eggs and then add the sugar in a stream.
• Then whisk in the cinnamon, cocoa, nutmeg and vanilla.
• Stir the bread soaked mixture into this.
• Stir in the ground almonds and raisins.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Decorate with the almonds and pine nuts in a symmetrical pattern.
• Dot the top of the batter with the butter.
• Place the pan in the oven and immediately lower heat to 350 degrees.
• Bake the cake until it is a deep golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about an hour.
• Cool the cake in the pan, on a rack.
• Invert cake onto rack and then invert again onto platter.
• Dust cake with confectioner's sugar before serving.