To mark the end of a very hectic week for me, I am going to post a dessert recipe today. Although Friday seems to have come so quickly this week, every day has been super busy. I am yet to read the other recipes from my favorite blogs. I cant wait for the weekend now 🙂 Moving onto this recipe, it’s a very simple bread pudding. When I had some extra slices of bread, I was looking for ways to utilize them and that’s when I got the idea of making a bread pudding. From what started as an idea of Bread Halwa, it turned into Caramel Bread Pudding. This is one of the simple desserts that can be made very quickly with a very few ingredients.
There are a number of ways to make bread pudding and this is my version. Instead of being too gooey, this pudding is kind of cross between a cake and a pudding. Its moist, its sweet, it looks like a cake but is smooth and soft and a bit gooey like a pudding. The process itself is very simple. Slices of bread are cooked in milk and sugar mixture until smooth. To thicken the mixture further, I used a tablespoon of plain custard powder and cooked the bread mixture until the custard powder is cooked. After resting it for a few minutes, I set the mixture in a butter coated baking dish and sprinkled brown sugar all over the top. Baked it for 10mins in the oven and that’s all – Caramel bread pudding is done! Did I not tell you its too easy make?! 🙂
The bread should completely dissolve in milk and should become a smooth paste. On adding the sugar, it turns a bit runny. Keep cooking until the mixture comes together. Adjust the quantity of sugar as per personal preference. Instead of vanilla essence, green cardamom powder can be added as well. Instead of Vanilla Custard Powder, corn flour can be substituted. Adding the butter while cooking the mixture will ensure that the mixture is not too sticky. The time to bake the pudding varies from oven to oven. Keep checking the pudding and as the sides turn golden brown or the top turns golden brown, remove it.
