Salted Caramel Bread Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Make the caramel: Combine the sugar and 1/4 cup water in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring just until the sugar dissolves. Cook, gently swirling the pan but not stirring, until amber, about 10 minutes. Brush any sugar crystals off the side of the pan with a wet pastry brush. Remove from the heat and carefully whisk in the butter, heavy cream, bourbon, lemon juice and kosher salt (the mixture will bubble). Pour into a bowl and set aside.
• Make the bread pudding: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Spread the bread cubes on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until dry and golden, about 20 minutes. Let cool completely.
• Whisk the eggs, sugar and kosher salt in a large bowl, then whisk in the milk, heavy cream and vanilla until smooth. Fold in the toasted bread and the banana slices. Transfer half of the mixture to the prepared baking dish and spread in an even layer. Drizzle with 1/2 cup of the caramel, then top with the remaining bread mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour or overnight. Cover and refrigerate the remaining caramel until ready to serve.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Sprinkle the bread pudding with sea salt and bake until golden brown and set, about 1 hour, 15 minutes. Warm the remaining caramel and drizzle on top.

Steps:

• Place bread in greased 2-qt. baking dish.
• Combine water and brown sugar; pour over bread.
• Combine remaining ingredients; pour over bread.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 50-60 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Serve warm or cold.

Steps:

• Fill a large pan with a few centimetres of water and set over a medium heat. Set a large heatproof bowl over the pan - it should sit on top without touching the water. Break the chocolate into the bowl, then tip in the cream, milk, butter, caster sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Reduce the heat to low, and stir the mixture until everything has melted together and is glossy. Remove from the heat and leave to cool slightly.
• Spread the caramel over the base of a baking dish (ours was 30 x 22cm), then sprinkle with a pinch of sea salt. Cut the waffles in half diagonally, then arrange over the caramel in overlapping rows.
• Pour the egg yolks into the warm chocolate mixture, mixing well as you do until all of the egg is fully incorporated. Carefully pour the chocolate custard over the waffles, ensuring they're fully covered. Leave to soak for at least 1 hr, or cover and chill overnight.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and uncover the dish if it has been chilled. Bake the pudding for 30 mins until the custard is set with a slight wobble in the centre. Leave to stand for 5 mins, then dust lightly with icing sugar, if you like, and scoop into bowls to serve.

Steps:

• Heat milk, unsalted butter and vanilla extract in a pan over medium heat until butter melts.
• Take milk mix off of heat and set aside until cool.
• While milk is cooling, place bread cubes in a single layer on a cookie sheet and toast at 350 for 10 minutes to make them stale. This may take 2-3 batches.
• Coat a 9x13 baking dish with butter and add all toasted bread cubes to this dish.
• When milk has cooled, beat all 6 eggs in a separate bowl and mi into milk mixture.
• Pour milk and egg mixture over bread cubes, pressing down gently to ensure all pieces get coated. Let soak for 1 hour.
• After 1 hour, bake for 50 minutes uncovered until bread is brown but center is still a little jiggly.
• While bread pudding is cooling, begin to make the caramel sauce.
• In a sauce pan, melt butter in pan over medium heat. Add the brown sugar and rum and stir until sugar is dissolved and bubbling.
• Very slowly add the cream, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• To serve, plate a 3 inch square of warm bread pudding. Drizzle with a little caramel sauce. Top with a small scoop of vanilla bean ice cream (optional) and drizzle with a little more sauce.