Bread Pudding

One day, I realized that I baked too many bread pudding in a couple of months. One, because we always had bread leftovers by the end of the day. I was wondering what happened to us. We used to love bread, but in the end, there was only me and my bread.

I was itching so bad to bake my students. And I was itching very very bad to finish the stale bread.

So there, banana bread pudding.

I used Dole's banana for this one, which had a strong fragrance and taste compared to other types of banana.

There's nothing special about this pudding, at least for me. But some of my students loved it so, try it then you know. Hehe.

Banana Bread Pudding

2 cups milk

4 medium eggs

1 cup sugar

1 tbsp vanilla essence

1 loaf a day old bread, shredded

2 bananas, sliced

1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees celcius and grease your baking dish.
2. Mix eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla essence until incorporated. Stir in the bread and let it soak for 5 minutes.
3. Pour into your baking dish, toss the banana slices and bake for an hour.

But my suggestion is, toss the banana into the mixture together with the bread.

And this is bread and butter pudding. Recipe you can google kot? Hahahaha. Nothing special also. I still prefer Paula Deen's bread pudding!

Actually, I have one more bread pudding but I couldn't find the picture (or maybe I forgot to snap cis).

Nutella Chocolate Bread Pudding

Browsing through my baking pictures folder (yes I do have a folder for all my baking activities), I just realized that I have tons of photos to update. I mean although I don't have that much time nowadays to blog, it didn't stop me from baking something just to stop the craving.

Like this bread pudding.

I was alone. My brother was away to somewhere I don't remember. I had this full stack of plain bread and two jars of Nuttella. Accidentally bought the second jar when I thought the first was empty.

And so I started layering each layer of the breads with nuttella.

30 minutes later, I get a simple yet delectable on the go dessert. Oh so Nigella Lawson! Hehe.

Nutella Chocolate Bread Pudding

Adapted from Ovenhaven

8 slices of day old bread

1 egg

1 cup chocolate milk

2 tsp sugar

Nutella

1. Prehat oven to 170 degrees celcius. Spread Nutella over the breads, rolled it over and cut it into four rolls. Place it on the casserole dish.
2. In a bowl, whisk egg, chocolate milk and sugar. Pour the mixture into the rolls and leave aside for a few minutes.
3. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes. Best serve warm.

ps: I doubled the amount of bread because I don't like a soggy bread pudding ;)

Bread Pudding

Ok ini recipe jump. Jump disini bermaksud lompat macam potong que because I want Yasmin to try it. Yas, I know you're reading this and this post is specially for you!

The first time I ate bread pudding was like 10-12 years ago. My sister baked it (yes kakak you baked before aite? Hehe). And that was also the last time I ate bread pudding. Pathetic I know. So, there were some leftovers of the sides of the breads (you know the hard/brown thing that people cut and throw when they're preparing for sandwiches?) from last Sunday sandwiches. I had 2 long loaf of Gardenia bread (What was I doing with that many sandwiches? Hehe) and I really don't want money wasted just like that if we throw it. So I keep it.

And yesterday I baked a bread pudding. Sedap sedap tak tipu tolong lah percaya!

Pecans streussel topping.

Sorry. I couldn't resist the temptation that even before I get my camera ready, I scooped it for food testing. Ok pass. Hahaha.

Actually this bread pudding has it custard sauce that goes with it but I wanted to try it first. I don't want it to be that sweet. I know I have sweet tooth but just as a precaution, when you have dessert in your place twice a week, hurm? And I reduced all the amount of sugar one quarter each. And I am relieved that I did! The sweetness, just perfect!

But what I didn't know, bread pudding is like your substitution of rice. I took one small square and not even finishing half, dah full. Eggs+breads? No wonder lah!

The Best Bread Pudding

Adapted from Paula Deen

Ingredients

2 cups granulated sugar (1 3/4 cups)

5 large beaten eggs

2 cups milk

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

3 cups cubed Italian bread, allow to stale overnight in a bowl

1 cup packed light brown sugar (3/4 cup)

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened

1 cup chopped pecans

1/2 cup yellow raisins

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan.

Mix together granulated sugar, eggs, and milk in a bowl; add vanilla and raisins. Pour over cubed bread and let sit for 10 minutes.

In another bowl, mix and crumble together brown sugar, butter, and pecans.

Pour bread mixture into prepared pan. Sprinkle brown sugar mixture over the top and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until set. Remove from oven.