Professional Baker Teaches You How To Make BREAD PUDDING!

Let me start with the basic bread pudding .

And you know , it's a simple comfort food , but well made absolutely delicious .

So , before I get into the bread pudding , I actually want to get my raisins ready .

I love bread pudding with raisins , but I like to plump them up .

So I'll pour some hot water over half a cup of raisins and I'll get my dish set .

So I'll just brush the dish with a little bit of melted butter just so it doesn't stick .

Now , I've melted about four tablespoons , so about a tablespoon goes into the dish and the remaining three tablespoons .

I pour over four cups of diced day old bread , depending on the style of bread you use .

You may or may not want to cut the crusts off .

If it's a really crusty baguette , it could end up being a tough bread pudding .

So it might be a good idea to trim the crusts .

A bread pudding is essentially made of two parts , the bread base and then the custard .

So the starting point for the custard , two eggs and one egg yolk , I'll add half a cup of sugar whisk this together .

I'll add 1.5 cups of milk and one cup of whipping cream .

The whole point of a basic bread pudding is to keep the flavor simple .

So I add just a teaspoon of vanilla and a quarter teaspoon of ground nutmeg and lastly just a pinch of salt .

Part of the convenience of a basic bread pudding is that you tend to have the ingredients on hand .

We go , I'll pour this over the bread cubes .

And what I like to do is set it aside for about 15 minutes if you happen to walk by it and think of stirring it .

Well , then you go ahead and do that and this is what it looks like after 15 minutes .

So take a slotted spoon or a potato masher and actually break down the bread a little bit .

Now my raisins have had time to plump up .

So I'll just add them .

You can leave your bread pudding plain .

You could use nuts .

You could use diced apple .

It's really up to you .

And now the mixture is ready for the baking dish .

The finishing touch a little bit of cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top .

In addition to the nice smell as the bread pudding bakes , you get a nice crunch on top from the sugar layer .

This bakes for about an hour in a 3 50 oven and it'll souffle up and you'll know it's done when it turns a beautiful golden brown .

And here's this beautiful bread pudding out of the oven and you want to let it cool for about 15 minutes before you dig in .

But it looks so nice brought right to the table .

Oh , it's just so delicate and light .

And to think it all starts with day old bread .