Best Bread Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 loaf day old french bread, cut in 12 slices (1 inch thick)
• 1/2 cup real butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 5 eggs, beaten
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream
• 1 dash ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup raisins (optional)
• powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• milk, enough to make sauce the consistency of elmers glue. add whiskey to taste

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cream sugar and butter in large bowl.
• 3 add eggs, cream, cinnamon, vanilla and raisins, mix well.
• 4 pour mixture into a 9 inch square pan. (i double my recipe and use a bigger pan.).
• 5 arrange bread slices flat in the egg mixture; cutting pieces to fit small holes but do not break into small pieces.) let the bread soak for 5 minutes and then turn pieces over and soak an additional 10 minutes.push the bread down into the liquid to assure that it is covered with the mixture.
• 6 place this pan into a larger pan that is filled to 1 inch of the top with water. cover the pudding pan with foil. bake 45 minutes. uncover pan and cook for 10 more minutes to brown top.
• 7 the custard should be soft, not firm. serve warm in bowls with sauce below with or without whiskey.
• 8 whiskey sauce: mix powdered sugar,1 tsp vanilla and enough milk to make sauce the consistency of elmers glue. add whiskey to taste.