New Orleans Style Bread Pudding

Bread pudding is simply cubed stale bread that is soaked in a mixture of milk, sugar, and eggs, and then baked. The result is something like the creamy middles from a stack of French toast.

What elevates bread pudding to the realm of a truly decadent dessert is the sauce. You can serve the pudding with a caramel sauce, a vanilla sauce, or a hard sauce like the one in this recipe that features bourbon whisky.

Ingredients:

Bread Pudding:

10 ounces loaf stale French bread, crumbled (if you use fresh french bread reduce milk to 3 cups) or 6 -8 cups any type of crumbled bread (if you use fresh french bread reduce milk to 3 cups)

2 cups sugar (granulated)

1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, melted

3 eggs

2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract

1 cup raisins

1 cup shredded coconut

1 cup chopped pecans

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

4 cups milk

Joes Whiskey Sauce

1⁄2 cup unsalted butter

1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar

2 egg yolks

1⁄2 cup Bourbon

Directions: