Best bread pudding recipe ever

Best bread pudding recipe ever

INGREDIENTS

2 cups milk

2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, more for greasing pan

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

⅓ cup sugar

Pinch salt

½ loaf sweet egg bread like challah or brioche, cut into 2-inch cubes (about 5 to 6 cups)

4 eggs, beaten

PREPARATION

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a small saucepan over low heat, warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool. Meanwhile, butter a 4-to-6-cup baking dish and fill it with cubed bread.
2. Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread. Let soak for 1 hour. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set but still a little wobbly and edges of bread have browned. Serve warm or at room temperature.

  Bourbon Sauce

1⁄2 cup butter, softened

1  cup sugar

1  large egg, well beaten 

6 tablespoons bourbon

PREPARATION

1. Combine butter and sugar in a small saucepan; cook over medium, stirring frequently, until sugar dissolves.
2. Add egg, stirring briskly with a wire whisk until well blended.
3. Cook over medium heat 1 minute.
4. Remove from heat, cool until touchable; stir in bourbon.