Mango Coconut Bread Pudding With Rum Sauce

Rita~'s Note:

Tropical Bread pudding topped with a rich buttery rum sauce. The bread will be crusty on top and soft inside.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1⁄3; cup raisins
• 4 tablespoons dark rum , split for soaking raisins and for sauce
• ½ ounce unsweetened butter
• 8 cups diced challah

Egg Mixture ingredients

• 1 large mango , peeled cored and diced
• 4 large eggs
• 2 cups milk
• ¼ cup flaked coconut
• ½ teaspoon grated ginger
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ vanilla bean , scraped from pod
• ½ cup light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Rum Sauce ingredients

• 3 ½ ounces unsalted butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream

Garnish

• 1 tablespoon flaked coconut
• mango , slices

Directions:

1. Soak raisins in rum for 15 minutes then strain reserving rum for sauce.
2. Butter a 9x11 casserole pan with 1/2 ounce butter.
3. Place bread cubes in prepared pan top with raisins.
4. Process in a food processor the egg mixture ingredients till smooth. Pour over bread, cover with plastic wrap and let soak for 1 hour.
5. Preheat oven 350. Bake for 40 minutes top with 1 tablespoon coconut and bake 5-10 more minutes.
6. Meanwhile melt the butter add 1 cup brown sugar and cream stir till dissolved. Add rum that was used to soak raisins.
7. Serve pudding hot with lots of sauce and garnish with sliced mango.

Reviews

[Teri]

This was very good, but I think I must be a traditionalist. I prefer plain old bread pudding. But that said, my family devoured this and fought over who was taking home the leftover piece. I had raisin cinnamon bread in the freezer so that is what I used.

[Mrs B]

I hadn't heard of challah before seeing it in this recipe. Unfortunately I wasn't able to buy any so substituted brioche instead (which I found suggested as an alternative eleswhere on the Internet). I loved the fact that this was so easy to make; I made the egg mixture in advance then came back to it when I was ready. This made 6 large portions and we enjoyed it hot one day and cold the following two nichts.

[Tasty Tidbits]

This was delicious. I don't do alcohol so I used rum flavouring instead with excellent results. I just used 3 TBS water and 1 TBS rum flavouring which worked fine. I love the flavour of rum with raisins. My DH really enjoyed this. Thanks for a wonderful recipe. I would have liked to take a photo of this, but my batteries were dead so I couldn't. As good as this recipe is though I am sure there will be lots of photos submitted.