Bread pudding, a classic dessert with a long history, is a delightful dish that combines soft bread, creamy custard, and warm spices. With its origins dating back centuries, bread pudding has become a staple in many cultures around the world. This versatile dessert can be prepared in various ways, with countless variations in ingredients and flavors. Whether you prefer a traditional bread pudding recipe passed down through generations or a modern twist with unique ingredients, there's a recipe out there to satisfy your cravings.
Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!
LEMON BREAD PUDDING
Sweet raisins and a smooth hot lemon sauce make this bread pudding extra special. Even today, I get requests for the recipe from people who tasted this traditional dessert years ago. -Mildred Sherrer, Fort Worth, Texas
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 1h5m
Yield 6 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Toss bread and raisins in an ungreased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. In a small saucepan, combine milk, sugar, butter and salt; cook and stir until butter melts. Remove from the heat. Whisk eggs and vanilla in a small bowl. Stir a small amount of the hot milk mixture into the egg mixture; return all to the pan, stirring constantly. Pour over bread and raisins. , Place dish in a larger baking pan. Fill larger pan with hot water to a depth of 1-in. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. , For sauce, combine the sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. Stir in water until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes, or until thickened. Remove from the heat. Stir in lemon juice, zest and butter until butter melts. Serve over warm or cold pudding. Refrigerate any leftovers.
Nutrition Facts :
GRANDMOTHER'S BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE
Comforting is the best way to describe this lovely, flavorful bread pudding. And the drizzle of tangy lemon sauce offers a little zing!
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 55m
Yield 15 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. Stir in bread cubes and raisins. Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 45-55 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean., For sauce, combine the sugar, cornstarch, salt and water in a large saucepan until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat. , Stir a small amount of hot filling into egg yolks; return all to the pan, stirring constantly. Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. , Remove from the heat; gently stir in lemon juice and butter. Serve with bread pudding. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 344 calories, Fat 11g fat (6g saturated fat), Cholesterol 140mg cholesterol, Sodium 244mg sodium, Carbohydrate 55g carbohydrate (42g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 7g protein.
BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE I
This recipe includes directions for making lemon sauce, a perfect complement to a spicy bread pudding.
Provided by Linda
Categories Desserts Specialty Dessert Recipes Bread Pudding Recipes
Yield 15
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray an 8x11 inch casserole with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, combine bread cubes, 1 cup sugar, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix in raisins, if desired.
- In another bowl, blend milk, melted butter, and eggs. Add wet ingredients to dry, and mix together without turning bread mixture into mush. Pour mixture into prepared casserole dish.
- Place casserole dish into a larger baking pan. Pour hot water into baking pan about 1/3 up the side of the casserole dish, creating a water bath. Bake for 45 minutes.
- In a small saucepan, combine 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch, 1 cup hot water, 2 tablespoons butter, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Cook on medium heat until bubbling and thickened. Stir constantly to avoid scorching. Serve with bread pudding.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 264 calories, Carbohydrate 38.5 g, Cholesterol 75.1 mg, Fat 10.8 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 5.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.2 g, Sodium 258.6 mg, Sugar 30.3 g
LEMON BREAD PUDDING
Provided by Ree Drummond : Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 2h45m
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cut the bread into 1-inch cubes. Spread out on a baking sheet to dry out for at least 1 hour or overnight.
- Grease a 9-inch-by-13-inch baking dish with butter.
- Whisk together the half-and-half, eggs and lemon zest and juice. Add the sugar and stir until it dissolves. Put the bread cubes in the prepared baking dish. Pour the liquid over the bread. Let the bread soak up the liquid while you preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Bake until the crust is golden brown, 50 to 55 minutes. Let rest for at least 15 minutes.
- Serve warm with Bourbon Whipped Cream.
- Combine the heavy cream, sugar and bourbon in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer and begin mixing immediately on high speed until stiff, about 4 minutes.
BREAD PUDDING
This bread pudding recipe has been passed down three generations. I have included the brown sugar sauce and lemon sauce recipes to serve with this pudding. My youngest daughter's favourite.
Provided by Cullinaryjudge
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- Whisk together eggs, whipping cream, milk, salt, sugar, and vanilla.
- Stir in bread cubes and raisins.
- Turn into greased 9x9 inch pan.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Bake 350 degrees F.
- for about 30 minutes.
- Serve with brown sugar sauce or lemon sauce.
- Brown Sugar Sauce: In saucepan, work together flour and butter.
- Add brown sugar.
- Stir.
- Gradually add boiling water.
- Stir until smooth.
- Boil until thick.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in vanilla, serve warm.
- Lemon Sauce: Combine sugar, starch, and salt.
- Gradually add boiling water.
- Stir until smooth.
- Cook over low heat until thick and clear.
- Remove from heat.
- Add remaining ingredients.
- Serve warm.
LEMON BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE
This bread pudding is from Taste of Home magazine and has become the recipe I use whenever making bread pudding. I have used all kinds of day old bread in it, even cinnamon bread...yummmmm. The lemon sauce is a great addition to the bread pudding but it is also quite good without.
Provided by Petdrwife
Categories Dessert
Time 1h15m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Toss bread and raisins in an ungreased 1 1/2 quart baking dish.
- In a saucepan, combine milk, sugar, butter and salt; cook and stir until butter melts. Remove from heat.
- Whisk eggs and vanilla in a small bowl; gradually stir in a small amount of the hot mixture.
- Return all to the pan and mix well.
- Pour over bread and raisins.
- Set the dish in a larger baking pan; add 1 inch of hot water and bake uncovered for 50-60 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.
- For sauce, combine the sugar and cornstarch in saucepan.
- Stir in water until smooth; bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Boil for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from the heat; stir in lemon juice, zest and butter until butter melts.
- Serve over warm or cold pudding.
- Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 390.6, Fat 10.9, SaturatedFat 6.1, Cholesterol 97.2, Sodium 289.3, Carbohydrate 69.5, Fiber 1.1, Sugar 53.3, Protein 6.4
LUBY'S BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE
This came from Luby's 50th Anniversary cookbook. This is their note on the recipe: Bread pudding originally was created as a "waste not, want not" use for dry leftover brad. Serve this homey, family-pleasing pudding warm, at room temperature, or cold, as you prefer. However you serve it, it's "comfort food" at its very best.
Provided by Bliss
Categories Healthy
Time 1h15m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- For cinnamon sugar, in small bowl, mix together sugar and cinnamon.
- For pudding, in large bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, sugar, and vanilla until well blended.
- Place bread in 2 quart baking dish. Sprinkle with raisins.
- Pour milk mixture over bread and raisins. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
- Cover with foil.
- Bake 45 minutes.
- Remove foil and continue baking 10 minutes.
- For sauce, in small saucepan, combine sugar and lemon juice.
- Mix well. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
- In small bowl, mix cornstarch, water, and food color until cornstarch is completely dissolved.
- Add to saucepan, stirring constantly until mixture thickens.
- Serve over pudding.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 394.9, Fat 9.1, SaturatedFat 3.8, Cholesterol 227.5, Sodium 244.9, Carbohydrate 69.2, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 51.2, Protein 11.1
LOUISIANA BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE
Recipe by: Jackie Milligan. A New Orleans style Mardi Gras Dessert. Bread pudding is found on the menu of almost every restaurant in New Orleans. It's a staple of the Louisiana diet, one bite of this wonderful desert and you'll know why.
Provided by pink cook
Categories Dessert
Time 1h20m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- BREAD PUDDING: preheat oven to 350ºF. In a bowl large enough to hold bread and liquid, beat eggs with a fork until lemon yellow in color. Whisk in milk, vanilla and almond extract.
- Soak bread in egg and milk mixture until the bread has absorbed most of the liquid, about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Mix sugar, salt, spices (and chopped dates) in a separate bowl. When bread has soaked up the liquid, add dry ingredients and mix well.
- Butter a baking dish large enough to hold the bread mixture 2 -1/2 qt pan or 8x8" will work. Pour bread mixture into pan and dot top with pieces of butter.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool or serve immediately.
- LEMON SAUCE: blend sugar, cornstarch and water in a sauce pan.
- Bring to a boil over med-high heat. Cook 2 - 3 min until mixture is thickened.
- Remove from heat and add lemon zest, lemon juice and butter.
- Cut in squares and serve warm lemon sauce over bread pudding.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 418.7, Fat 12.6, SaturatedFat 6.6, Cholesterol 61.3, Sodium 661, Carbohydrate 69.2, Fiber 2.7, Sugar 28.5, Protein 8.6
BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE
Provided by Pam Belluck
Categories dessert, side dish
Time 1h20m
Yield 10 to 12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To make the pudding, combine eggs and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Mix well. Add condensed milk, whole milk, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon. Stir to blend well.
- Butter a shallow 2-quart baking dish. Put bread cubes in the dish, and sprinkle with raisins and butter pats. Pour in egg mixture, making sure all bread cubes are covered. Cover the dish with foil.
- Put baking dish on middle rack of oven, and place a pan of water on the lower shelf directly beneath it. Bake until the mixture is browned and set, 1 hour 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, to make the sauce, combine the sugar, cornstarch and 1 cup of water in the top half of a double boiler. Place over boiling water, and stir until thickened. Stir in lemon zest and juice, and remove from heat. Drizzle over warm pudding, and serve.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 674, UnsaturatedFat 9 grams, Carbohydrate 96 grams, Fat 28 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 12 grams, SaturatedFat 17 grams, Sodium 230 milligrams, Sugar 87 grams, TransFat 1 gram
NEW ORLEANS BREAD PUDDING WITH LEMON SAUCE
I have saved this recipe from a 1983 magazine article highlighting the wonderful recipes from New Orleans. It is a little different take on an old familiar dessert.
Provided by Bren in LR
Categories Dessert
Time 2h
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs on high until extremely frothy, about 3 minutes (or for about 6 minutes with a metal whisk).
- Add the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract and butter and beat on high speed until well blended.
- Beat in the milk. Stir in the raisins and pecans.
- Put the bread cubes in a greased 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan.
- Pour the egg mixture over the cubes and toss until the bread is soaked.
- Let sit about 45 minutes, patting the bread down into the liquid occasionally.
- Put in a 350* oven. Immediately lower the heat to 300* and bake 40 minutes. Increase oven temperature to 425* and bake 15-20 minutes more, or until pudding is well browned and puffy.
- To serve, put 1 1/2 Tbs lemon sauce in each dessert dish, then spoon in 1/2 cup bread pudding. Top with 1/4 cup whipped cream.
- Lemon Sauce (makes about 3/4 cup).
- Squeeze the juice from the lemon halves into a 1 qt saucepan; add the lemon rinds, water and sugar; bring to a boil.
- Stir in the dissolved cornstarch and vanilla.
- Cook 1 minute over high heat, stirring constantly.
- Strain, squeezing the sauce from the lemon rind.
Tips:
- Use stale bread: Stale bread will absorb more custard and result in a richer, more flavorful bread pudding.
- Don't overmix the batter: Overmixing the batter will make the bread pudding tough. Mix just until the ingredients are combined.
- Bake the bread pudding in a water bath: Baking the bread pudding in a water bath will help to prevent it from drying out.
- Let the bread pudding cool slightly before serving: This will allow the pudding to set and make it easier to slice.
- Serve the bread pudding with a variety of toppings: Some popular toppings include whipped cream, ice cream, fruit, and caramel sauce.
Conclusion:
Bread pudding is a delicious and versatile dessert that can be made with a variety of ingredients. It's a great way to use up leftover bread, and it can be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. With its rich, creamy texture and sweet, satisfying flavor, bread pudding is sure to be a hit with everyone who tries it.
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