Recipe: Perfect Bread Pudding

Bread Pudding.

You can have Bread Pudding using 30 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Bread Pudding

1. It's of A. Bread Pudding.
2. Prepare 8-10 slices of bread (buttered).
3. Prepare of (Or use croissants, brioche etc).
4. It's 60 g of butter (melted).
5. It's 3 of eggs.
6. You need 1/4 of brown sugar.
7. You need 1/4 of white sugar.
8. Prepare 500 ml of thickened cream.
9. You need of (Or milk. We use whatever available but love thickened cream).
10. Prepare of B. Sauce.
11. Prepare 300 g of milk (or use both cream & milk- anything available).
12. It's 1-2 tbsp of sugar/maple syrup.
13. Prepare 1 of egg.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of corn flour.
15. It's 1 tsp of custard powder.
16. You need 1 tsp of vanila extract.
17. You need Pinch of nutmeg (opt).
18. You need of Note: Some using only egg yolks (4-5 yolks) and cream instead of milk for sauce. For this type of sauce, do not add flour for thickening.
19. You need of It’s simpler but for that much of yolks i have to come up with another dish/recipe for the egg whites. Adjust & taste.
20. You need of C. Optional Sauce Recipe (fr drive me hungry).
21. You need 1/2 C of milk.
22. Prepare 1/2 C of half and half.
23. Prepare 3 tbsp of sugar.
24. Prepare 4 of large egg yolk.
25. You need 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract.
26. Prepare of Note: if half and half is not available - use 1 C of milk + 1 tbsp melted butter.
27. Prepare of Cream sugar & egg yolk.
28. Prepare of Heat milk to a slightly simmer. Ladle milk into egg yolk mixture slowly until finish & keep whisking in between additions.
29. It's spoon of Return mixture to the pot & heat until sauce thickens & coats at the back of the.
30. Prepare of Add vanilla once it cools.

Bread Pudding step by step

1. A. For Bread pudding - prepare ingredients- melt butter. Put aside. Grease ramekins with butter. Prepare bread - use any type of bread available - white, brioche, croissants. For white bread, trim the edges & butter both sides. cut into preferred size. Place/arrange cut bread into greased ramekins. Keep aside. Layer with sultanas (optional / if available).
2. Crack eggs, stir in sugar & melted butter until well mixed. Next, add thickened cream. Whisk until well combined. Using a fine sieve, Strain this mixture into another bowl. Then, Ladle this mixture over the bread in ramekins & place ramekins in a bain marie. Bake at 180°C for 20-25mins or until the bread is golden in colour & filling is slightly set. Note: Preheat oven to 180°C & prepare water bath/ bain marie before baking bread pudding..
3. B. Sauce - crack egg & whisk in corn flour, custard powder & maple syrup or sugar until well combined. We use maple syrup. Anything available. Put aside. scald milk over medium heat (This is use to temper the egg). Turn off the heat..
4. Ladle scalded milk into egg mixture slowly while whisking quickly until well combined. Ladle milk in batches. (Skipping this step, risking eggy sauce & curdled egg/sauce, so, avoid skipping this process). Return to the heat and keep whisking (over medium heat first then switch to low) until mixture thickened. Remove from the heat. Add vanilla extract once sauce is slightly cooled/warm..
5. Serve bread pudding with sauce..