2+1/2 c. Milk
1/2 c. Sour cream
8 oz package of cream cheese
3 whole eggs
4 egg yolks
4 Tbls. Butter
1/2 c. Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
5 slices of white bread with crusts cut off. (I used French Brioche)
Caramel: (Cook on the stove til golden brown, then pour into pan and move around to cover the whole bottom of the pan).
1/4 c. Sugar
2 Tbls. Water
Let all ingredients sit til room temperature, then blend everything together, except for the bread. Mix in the bread and let it sit to soak while making the caramel glaze. Then blend the bread til smooth, and pour over the glaze.
Bake in Baine marie at 325 for one hour.
Options: Remove 1/2 cup milk to make a thicker custard, or add two or four more slices of bread.
Best results would be to use a blender to blend it all smooth.
found another name for a custard like this. Creme caramel.
Don’t let the poor caramel be off pudding. My pan got ruined, and it was replaced by a pan that warped while I was making the caramel on the stove, and it severely burnt the sugar when I noticed and moved the pan to finish the other parts of the sugar. Definitely can’t use that pan that way again,
Left out the sour cream and added/changed the following.
3/4 c. sugar instead of 1/2 c.
15 oz. Pumpkin
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1/4 tsp. each Ginger, Clove, and Nutmeg
6 eggs instead of the 3 whole eggs and 4 egg yolks.
1 Tbls. Molasses
For the bread, I made a milk bread partially as how a brioche/Hokaido milk bread is made.
Milk Bread for Bread Pudding: (I used 3/4th’s of this in the Pumpkin Pie Budin de Pan).
1+1/2 c. Flour
1 tsp. Yeast
1+1/2 Tbls. Sugar
Filled a measuring cup to the 3/4 mark with both two eggs and milk.
Blended all the above ingredients together (similar to a no-knead bread) and slowly mixed in 4 tablespoons butter.
Cover, let rise for one hour. Place in fridge over-night. Take out and set to room temperature for about two hours. Place in small pan (I used a Pyrex two cup rectangle pan), cover and let sit for 30 minutes. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes. (For this one, I baked it in a water bath, and it took 26 minutes to finish).
Cheesecake is my fav and I like bread pudding too!
