Irish Bread Pudding With Caramel-Whiskey Sauce

"Yummy bread pudding curtesy of Cooking Light Magazine."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 20mins
Ingredients:
17
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Caramel-Whisky Sauce: Combine sugar and water in a small heavy saucepan over medium-high heat; cook until sugar dissolves, stirring constantly.
  • Cook an additional 15 minutes or until golden (do not stir).
  • Remove from heat.
  • Carefully add butter and cream cheese, stirring constantly with a whisk (mixture will be hot and bubble vigorously).
  • Cool slightly, and stir in whiskey and milk.
  • Pudding: Preheat oven to 350F.
  • Brush melted butter on one side of French bread slices, and place bread, buttered sides up, on a baking sheet.
  • Bake bread at 350F for 10 minutes or until lightly toasted.
  • Cut bread into 1/2-inch cubes, and set aside.
  • Combine raisins and whiskey in a small bowl; cover and let stand 10 minutes or until soft (do not drain).
  • Combine 1% milk and next 4 ingredients (1% milk through eggs) in a large bowl; stir well with a whisk.
  • Add bread cubes and raisin mixture, pressing gently to moisten; let stand 15 minutes.
  • Spoon bread mixture into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
  • Combine 1 tablespoon sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over pudding.
  • Bake at 350F for 35 minutes or until set.
  • Serve warm with Caramel-Whiskey Sauce.
  • *Substitute1/4 cup apple juice for the Irish whiskey, if desired.

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Reviews

  1. This is a hit with my family every holiday! They ask for it specifically!
     
  2. AMAZING! I get SO many compliemts every time I make this! One word of caution: do NOT use low fat cream cheese... it makes the sauce taste horrible. LOL
     
  3. Excellent! I used a leftover bag of stale white bread cubes that I didn't use up at Thanksgiving. I recommend using fresh plump raisins (mine were dried out and stone like). Don't over bake even if it seems a little wet. Mine did set up nice after coming out of the oven. The caramel sauce is the best! I did pour some of the sauce over the top of the bread pudding after it finished baking. I served this dish warm with vanilla ice cream. Delicious!!!
     
  4. I went to post this recipe from my collection and here it already was. I've made this Cooking Light recipe for quite some time now and like it a lot.
     
  5. I made this exactly to recipe for my St. Paddy's dinner, adding only some cinnamon and nutmeg, but didn't have good luck with it. I had to bake it twice as long as the recipe listed and it was still too wet in the middle. I put it back in the oven again, but that caused the outside to overbrown/burn. It never did attain the "custard" consistency that other bread puddings have and was not very appetizing. The sauce, however, turned out to be heaven on a spoon! And the flavor of the pudding was terrific. I will try it again soon and submit another review.
     
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