Bread Pudding With Bourbon Sauce

Submitted by NoSpringChicken

"This Southern Bread Pudding is luscious. Be sure to serve the bourbon sauce while it is slightly warm. Quite often, this is our family's choice of holiday desserts. This came from an old southern cookbook many years ago."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• 1 loaf French bread, cut into 1 inch cubes (16 oz.)
• 4 cups milk
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup raisins
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract

• Bourbon Sauce

• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg, well beaten
• 2 tablespoons Bourbon

directions

1. Combine bread and milk in a large mixing bowl; set aside for 5 minutes.
2. Add eggs, sugar, raisins, butter and vanilla; stir well.
3. Spoon mixture into a greased 3 quart casserole.
4. Bake, uncovered, at 325°F for 1 hour or until firm.
5. Cool in pan at least 20 minutes before serving.
6. Spoon into individual serving bowls; serve with Bourbon Sauce.
7. Bourbon Sauce: Combine butter and sugar in a small saucepan; cook over medium, stirring frequently, until sugar dissolves.
8. Add egg, stirring briskly with a wire whisk until well blended.
9. Cook over medium heat 1 minute.
10. Remove from heat, cool slightly; stir in bourbon.

Reviews

[georj]

Soak the raisins in bourbon! Also added almond extract to the bread pudding.

 

[dawnpelikan]

Absolutely Delicious! I made the bread pudding using a 16 ounce loaf of Cinnamon raisin bread instead of the french bread and it was soooo good. I didn't add any extra raisins and it came out perfect. The bourbon sauce was to die for! Thanks so much for posting this recipe! 10 stars if i could! -Italianmomof2

 

[wendylynn50]

Absolutely fantastic even though I screwed it up. I used day old ciabatta bread instead of french bread (which I do not recommend) because it was unable to absorb enough of the milk mixture but the top that set up was delicious! The bourbon sauce was wonderful! I will definitely be making this again but I will use french bread instead of ciabatta.

 

[In the kitchen cookin]

A quick to prepare desert thats worth more than the effort to make it. It is delicious.

 

[hkcurry]

This was a really fantastic bread pudding! I made it exactly as directed, except left the raisins out of half of it. And I must admit, we doubled the amount of bourbon it called for! This is now our official bread pudding recipe and I see us making it many more times!