Photo: Apple Crisp Bread Pudding Recipe
Ingredients
Bread Pudding:
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup apple brandy
- 2 Fuji apples
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 4 large eggs
- 3 cups half-and-half
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 14 Dunkin' Donuts Old Fashioned Cake Donuts
Crumb Topping:
- 3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- Apple Brandy Sauce, recipe follows
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
- Spiced Cream, recipe follows, optional
- Fresh mint sprigs, for garnish
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter the cups of 2 large muffin pans. (You will need 12 muffin cups.) Set aside.
Gently simmer the raisins and brandy in a small saucepan over low heat. Remove from the heat and set aside. Peel, core and cut the apples into 1-inch chunks. Add them to a small bowl and toss with the lemon juice. Set aside.
In large bowl, whisk the eggs, half-and-half, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, vanilla, and melted butter until combined. Cut the donuts into 1-inch pieces. Add the donuts to the bowl with the egg mixture. Press the donuts down into the liquid to cover completely and let soak for 15 minutes while you prepare the crumb topping.
To make the crumb topping. Add the flour, brown sugar, salt, oats, and butter to a small bowl. Using an electric mixer, on medium-low speed, beat the mixture until crumbly. Set aside.
Stir the apples and the raisins with the brandy into the soaked donuts. (Make sure the donuts have soaked up most of the liquid before adding the apples.) Evenly divide the custard among the muffin cups. Sprinkle each custard with the crumb topping. Put the muffin pans on foil-lined baking sheets and bake until the pudding has turned golden and is set, about 35 minutes. Remove the puddings from the oven and allow them to cool in the pans on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
To serve: Spoon the Apple Brandy Sauce on dessert plates and arrange each pudding on the sauce. Lightly dust with confectioners' sugar. Garnish each pudding with a dollop of Spiced Cream, if using, and a sprig of mint. Serve immediately.
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Apple Brandy Sauce:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/3 cup apple brandy
- 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten
- Pinch salt
In a medium saucepan melt the butter over medium-low heat. Add the sugar and stir until combined. Whisk in the heavy cream, brandy, egg yolks and salt. Cook until the sauce has thickened, about 2 to 3 minutes, whisking constantly. Do not let the sauce come to a boil. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly. Serve warm with the Apple Crisp Bread Pudding.
Spiced Cream:
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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By MrsMSweet
Laconia, NH
on February 18, 2012
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With some modification, I loved this recipe. Since I had no doughnuts, I made it with bread. The sauce was cut as well. Even so, everyone who tried it had good things to say. I will make it again.
By jltinney_13025621
Pitt Meadows
on July 25, 2010
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Looking over the ratings, reviews and list of ingredients, how can anybody not want to make this recipe? Fairly fussy, but not difficult produced a bread pudding no better than my usual one. Being complicated in and of itself isn't a virtue. The extra work has to result in a better product. Although I am a big fan of both bread pudding and apple crisp, the sum of these parts isn't a better whole.
By BAKlineRMR77
Uniontown, OH
on May 06, 2010
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Even with substitutions (regular store bought doughnuts for cake, no apple brandy - just regular brandy, and different kind apples could not ruin this amazing recipe. What a great combination of flavors, and the texture is velvety and wonderful. Thank you so much!!!
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