Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Spicy Caramel Apple Sauce and Vanilla Bean Creme Anglaise

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Wow! This is so good, I will be using the amazing dish every year. :

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Epic Fail: WAAAY TOO SWEET :-(

I am a pumpkin AND a sweet freak and I thought this was just too sweet. For all the labor it ended up in the garbage. None of our family could eat it. I would make it again if I could know how to cut down on the sweetness because the other flavors and spices are so good. The actual pumpkin bread was great. I think maybe to use in this recipe, cut down on the sugar in both the bread and the pumpkin custard, and substitute slightly sweetened whipped cream for the Anglais. These adjustments would also make that carmel sauce flaovr pop. Any suggestions for cutting down the sugars?

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Amazing. Next time I will make the sauces ahead of time. It is a fairly time consuming, but completely worth it.

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Highly disappointed. When I get a craving for pumpkin bread or pie, I immediately start craving the taste of nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon - not vanilla. The Cream Anglaise combined with whipped cream - and the ridiculous amount of vanilla beans - ruined this recipe and took it from would-be amazing to mediocre. My suggestion is to make the pumpkin bread, the pumpkin custard, and the caramel sauce. Do not make the anglaise... sooooooo much better without, and you get to skip a step. If you want a hint of cream, use a lightly sweet whipped cream.

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Absolutely amazing! Made this for Thanksgiving and everyone loved it. Extremely time consuming but totally worth it. I agree with other reviewers....do this in a couple of days. I had to remake my pumpkin bread because our new dog ate it off the counter while we were shopping! Substituted star anise and vanilla beans with extracts and didn't use the apple schnapps. Still came out unbelievable!

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We saw this on the Thanksgiving Throwdown and my daughter requested it for her birthday. Made all of the components. Only change I made was to substitute amaretto for the apple schnapps in the caramel sauce based on other reviews. We thought this was delicious. It was very time consuming, but worth the effort. It was great right after it was made, but I enjoyed the leftovers even more. I found the spices more flavorful serving the bread pudding at room temperature and the caramel cold. Just a personal preference. I might add nuts to the pumpkin bread next time.

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Served this on Thanksgiving. Made it over 3 days. It was very delicious. Pumpkin bread was great on its own, then with the sauces, a new holday mainstay. We have been eating the leftover caramel apple sauce on ice cream. Does anyone think the sauce could be made and given as a holiday gift? It will be refrigerated?

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WOW. What a delicious dish! As stated in previous comments, this recipe was extremely time consuming (I think it took me about 6 hours total, so I highly recommend breaking the task up into two days. I made a few alterations to the recipe, primarily because I didn't have a couple of ingredients. Photos on my blog: http://sweetcarolinescooking.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-pumpkin-bread-pudding-w-spicy-caramel-apple-sauce-vanilla-bean-creme-anglaise/

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Well worth the time it took to create this wonderful dish

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The flavors were incredibly good but I agree with some other reviewers it was way too sweet and rich. Very time consuming to make and it is best to break it up over several days.