Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Maggie Conlon
Maggie Conlon @WarsawNan
Orlando, FL

This will knock your socks off! One of my all-time favorites. Comfort food at its very best!

Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

This will knock your socks off! One of my all-time favorites. Comfort food at its very best!

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Ingredients

2 hours
12 servings
  1. bread pudding
  2. 1 tbspbutter, to grease baking dish
  3. 1 lbloaf of French or Italian bread
  4. 2 cupheavy cream
  5. 4 cupwhole milk
  6. 6large eggs
  7. 1 3/4 cupbrown sugar
  8. 4 1/2 tsppure vanilla extract
  9. 1 1/2 tspground cinnamon
  10. 3/4 tspground nutmeg
  11. 1/4 tspsalt
  12. 1/2 cupraisins
  13. 1/2 cupchopped pecans
  14. whiskey sauce
  15. 2 cupheavy cream
  16. 1/2 cupwhole milk
  17. 1/2 cupgranulated sugar
  18. 2 1/2 tbspcornstarch
  19. 3/4 cupbourbon or whiskey
  20. 1 pinchsalt
  21. 2 tbspbutter
  22. Whipped cream (optional topping)

Cooking Instructions

2 hours
  1. 1

    NOTE: Some will want to know if they can cut calories and fat by substituting for the butter, cream, whole milk, eggs. Simple answer, NO. This is a bad-for-you, make-you-moan, decadent, delicious dessert meant to be prepared as written. If you want/need something healthy, this just isn't for you.

  2. 2

    Tear the bread into 1-inch pieces and place in a very large bowl.

  3. 3

    Grease a 9 by 13-inch baking dish with the butter and set aside.

  4. 4

    Combine the heavy cream, milk, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk to mix. Stir in the raisins and pecan pieces.

  5. 5

    Pour the cream mixture over the bread, and stir to combine. The spices tend to stick to the bowl, so be sure to scrape all the spices into the bowl of bread too. Allow the mixture to sit at room temperature for 1 hour so most of the cream mixture is absorbed by the bread.

  6. 6

    Carefully pour the bread mixture into the buttered baking dish and bake in a 350° F oven until the center of the bread pudding is set, about 1 hour. While it's baking, prepare the whiskey sauce.

  7. 7

    In a 1-quart saucepan over medium heat, combine the cream, milk, and sugar.

  8. 8

    In a measuring cup, whisk together the whiskey and cornstarch. Pour into the pan with the cream mixture and continue cooking, stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens. Remove from heat and stir in the butter & the pinch of salt.

  9. 9

    When the bread pudding is done baking, allow to sit and partially cool, for 10 to 15 minutes. Plate servings, while warm, and top with warm whiskey sauce. It's also excellent with a shot of whipped cream (aerosol can type) on top of the whiskey sauce! Killer good!!

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My 5 siblings and I were raised in the 1950s and 60s midwest by a major foodie dad who was a great cook. We all learned to cook at a young age. I love to cook for my 2 daughters, 7 grandkids, 8 great-grandkids, and extended family. My 4 year old great-grandson makes my day when he says "Nan sure is a good cooker!". :-). I'm trying to get all my favorite recipes saved here so my family and friends all have easy access to them even after I'm gone. My Cookpad collection is their inheritance, so I try to add my comments and memories to each recipe; that way they'll remember me with a smile when they use the recipes years from now. Recently I've called on my grandkids (all adults and avid cooks) to send me their own favorite recipes, with their prep photos, so we can collect everyone's favorites together in one place.
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