After buying one too many cans of Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin I decided it was time to try out some different recipes other than the tried and true pumpkin pie – I’m saving that for Thanksgiving. While flipping through the newspaper recently I came across a recipe for Pumpkin Bread Pudding. It’s funny, as a child I couldn’t stand bread pudding but as I got older I acquired a taste for it. It could be because those that I do like aren’t made with traditional white bread but with Panettone, Croissants and so forth.
First things first, I got all of my ingredients together.
I then started cutting the bread into cubes – while the recipe did call for white bread I decided to switch it up a little and use cinnamon bread instead. After cutting up a little more than 4 cups of bread I toasted it in the oven for about 15 minutes. One immediate perk of using cinnamon bread was the aroma it filled my house with while it was toasting.
Following that I placed the cubes into my prepared baking dish.
While the bread was in the oven I whisked together all of my remaining ingredients that would compose the custard for the pudding.
Once all of the ingredients were mixed together well I poured it over the bread cubes.
After letting the mixture sit for ten minutes to allow the pudding to soak into the bread I cut pieces of cold butter and dropped them on top.
After baking for about 45 minutes my bread pudding was ready!
While it did taste good I was hoping for more of a pumpkin taste. Maybe I should have used the entire can of pumpkin instead of the 3/4 cup the recipe called for, then I wouldn’t have the dilemma of now finding a recipe that will only use this 1 cup of pumpkin I have sitting in my fridge.
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
Courtesy Domino Sugar
4 Cups White Bread, Cut Into Cubes
4 Eggs
3 Egg Yolks
1 1/2 Cups Milk
1 1/2 Cups Heavy Cream
3/4 Cup Canned Pumpkin Puree
1 Cup Domino Granulated Sugar
1/4 Tsp Salt
1 Tbsp Rum or Brandy
1/4 Tsp Nutmeg
1 Tsp Cinnamon
1/4 Tsp Cloves, ground
2 Tbsp Butter, cold, cut into pieces
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Dry bread cubes on cookie sheet in oven 10 to 15 minutes. Place bread cubes in pan. In large mixing bowl, whisk together all pudding ingredients except butter. Pour mixture over bread cubes. Let sit 10 minutes until bread is fully soaked. Dab butter over top. Bake 40 to 50 minutes. (Pudding should set in center, but not dry).
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