Name: Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: ¼ cup butter; 2 cups half-and-half; 2 cups milk; 1 lb french bread; 3 eggs; 3 cups white sugar; 4 tsp vanilla extract; 1½ tsp ground cinnamon; ¼ cup raisins; ½ lb unsalted butter; 1 cup heavy cream; 1 cup brown sugar; ½ cup pecans

How To Make Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce

Your favorite bread pudding made tastier with the addition of praline sauce topped with pecans and baked until golden brown.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 1 hour 10 minutes

Total: 1 hour 25 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

¼cupbutter,melted
2cupshalf-and-half
2cupsmilk
1lbFrench bread,torn into small pieces
3eggs,lightly beaten
3cupswhite sugar
4tspvanilla extract
1½tspground cinnamon
¼cupraisins,or more to taste
½lbunsalted butter
1cupheavy cream
1cupbrown sugar
½cuppecans,chopped, toasted

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Coat a 13×9-inch baking dish with ¼ cup of melted butter.
Pour half and half and milk over bread in a large mixing bowl; let soak for 10 minutes before gently stirring. Stir eggs into the bread mixture until incorporated.
Add sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and raisins respectively, stirring each addition into the mixture before adding the next. Spoon the bread mixture into the prepared baking dish.
Bake in the preheated oven until the bread mixture is firm and pudding-like for about 50 minutes.
Stir ½ pound of unsalted butter, heavy cream, and brown sugar together in a heavy saucepan; bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to low, stir pecans into the cream mixture, and simmer until the sugar is dissolved and the sauce thickens for about 5 minutes; pour over bread pudding to serve.