Name: Apples Foster Bread Pudding
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons butter; 1 tablespoon brown sugar; 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon; 4 green apples, peeled and sliced; 5 eggs; 2 1/4 cup whole milk; 1/3 cup brown sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 tablespoon spiced rum; 1 loaf Hawaiian bread, cubed (I used Private Selection from Kroger); 2 tablespoons butter, melted; 2 tablespoon sugar; 1/3 cup butter; 1/4 cup heavy cream; 1/2 cup brown sugar; pinch of salt; 1/4 cup dark rum (optional)

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Sweet Hawaiian bread is tossed with tart apples, spiced rum, eggs, and sugar in this simple but comforting bread pudding recipe!

My absolute favorite dessert is frosting. I have always been the kind of kid who asked for as many roses as possible on my birthday cake. My goal was to eat each rose one by one, savoring the butter and sugar as I went along. As for the actual cake, well I didn’t care about the cake. The only reason to order a cake is because bakeries do not sell buttercream roses on their own (although they should).

Over time, I started to enjoy the actual cake as well. I began to see how a tender chocolate cupcake is complimented by buttercream frosting; they work well TOGETHER. I began branching out into other frostingless desserts like pies, trifles, and now this bread pudding recipe.

I honestly didn’t know how I would like this bread pudding. I’m not a big fan of pudding. When ranking my desserts from my most favorite to my least, pudding would be there lurking at the bottom. The one exception would be boozy pudding. I like boozy pudding.

Turns out that something magical happens when you combine sweet bread with eggs, milk, sugar, butter and rum. You get a rich, caramel-crusted tender bread pudding that practically melts right into your mouth. The best part might be the sweetened cinnamon apples hidden inside. It’s as if cake and pie collided into one happy accident.

Notes about the recipe

I used whole milk. The added fat in the whole milk will help the custard thicken and set up properly.

I like the thickness and the sweetness of the Hawaiian bread. Challah or brioche would work well. They are all light and sweet types of bread.

If you would like to keep this free from alcohol, rum extract can be substituted.

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Yield: 8