Best Bread Pudding With Drunken Prunes Recipes

BREAD PUDDING WITH DRUNKEN PRUNES

Steps:

• Place diced prunes in a small jar or bowl, pour Comfort ove rtop; let sit about 4 hours or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350. Brush 2-quart baking dish with 1 T. melted butter, set aside.
• In a large bowl, drizzle remaining butter over bread cubes. Scatter cubes on a baking sheet and brown lightly in the preheating oven. Remove and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine milk, cream and vanilla. Add eggs, yolks, sugar and salt, whisking until smooth; set aside.
• Dump bread cubes into prepared baking dish. Remove prunes from liquor (or it might all have soaked in) and toss with cubes. Pour egg-mixture over top of cubes and prunes; cover.
• Place baking dish in a water bath (water should come 3/4 of the way up the sides of the dish), in the oven. Bake for one hour (or until "set").
• Remove dish from water bath, chill for two hours in refrigerator before unmolding from baking dish (or leave in the pan if you're not doing a fancy presentation).
• If you prefer to serve the pudding HOT, let it rest only until it is unpuffed--but do NOT unmold to serve.
• Serve with "butter-rum" sauce (1/2 cup each melted butter and powdered sugar with 3 T rum splashed in--heat briefly in the microwave) OR vanilla ice cream OR whipped cream.

DRUNKEN BREAD PUDDING WITH AMARETTO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butter 11x7-inch baking dish.
• In bowl whisk eggs and yolks, Whisk in granulated sugar and cinnamon until blended.
• Whisk in half and half, raisins and 2 tablespoons Amaretto until combined and sugar has dissolved.
• Add bread; stir to coat in egg mixture.
• Cover; refrigerate for 15 minutes. Stir and refrigerate 15 minutes more.
• Pour bread and egg mixture into baking dish; Pour any remaining egg mixture over bread.
• Bake 30 minutes; sprinkle with almonds.
• Bake 10 to 15 minutes more or until set. (If top is browning too quickly, tent with foil).
• Cool.
• Sauce: In pot melt butter over medium heat.
• Add remaining Amaretto; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
• Cook 30 seconds, reduce heat to medium.
• Gradually whisk in powdered sugar until dissolved; remove from heat.
• Transfer to bowl; cover and cool.
• Serve bread pudding with sauce and if desired, whipped cream.

BREAD PUDDING II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan. Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. If desired, sprinkle with raisins.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.