Delicious Desserts: Apple Spice Bread Pudding

Ingredients

1 loaf day old French bread, cut into small 1/2-inch cubes
4 eggs
8 oz heavy whipping cream
1 can condensed milk
1 can carnation milk
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
pinch salt
applesauce (I use my Super Quick Applesauce recipe)


Directions

Coat baking pan using the butter flavored cooking spray.

 

In a mixing bowl, lightly beat the eggs until just broken. 

Mix together all of the custard ingredients through apple puree.  The spices may lump in the custard.  Don't waste too much time breaking the lumps here because you'll get another chance when you add the cubed bread to the mixture. Set aside the mixture.

Transfer the bread cubes to the custard. Make sure that every piece of bread is coated and submerged in the custard. Mix well. Crush and break down the bread as much as possible. Also use this opportunity to crush the lumps of spices that may have formed.

Pour the bread mixture into the greased pan, and cover with plastic wrap. 

Place in the refrigerator for at least 8 and no more than 16 hours to allow the bread to fully absorb the custard.

Remove the bread pudding from the refrigerator, and remove the plastic wrap.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

 

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes or until top is golden brown and edges pull away from the pan.  Allow to cool about 10 minutes. Custard will completely set during cooling.

Delicious Desserts: Super Quick Applesauce

Ingredients

1 stick butter
4 gala apples, peeled and cored, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and tossed with juice from half of a 1/2 lemon
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 cup apple cider
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

Melt the butter in a large saute pan over medium heat.

Do not allow the butter to brown.  Add apple cider to the butter. 

Add the apples to the butter-cider mixture, and  stir to coat.

Add the lemon juice, apple cider, spices, and vanilla.

Cook until the apples have softened and the cider has reduced by half and becomes a thick syrup.

Pour the apple mixture into a food processor and blend into a smooth apple puree. Refrigerate until read to use.

Tasty Token: Apple Spice Muffin

Ingredients
Muffin:
1-1/2 cups Old Fashion oatmeal, pulsed in a food processor
1/2 cup coconut oil
2 eggs
1 cup half and half
2 apples - peeled, cored, and shredded

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1 cup brown sugar

Topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 stick butter, cubed
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease 2-six muffin cup tins or line with paper muffin liners.

Soak oatmeal in half and half for 30 minutes.

Stir together flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon.  Whisk in the brown sugar.

Mix in oil, egg, oatmeal-milk mixture. Fold in apples. Make a well in the dry ingredients, pour wet ingredients into well and mix until just moistened.  Do not over mix or else the muffins will not be moist.

Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling 3/4 of the way.

Topping: In a small bowl, stir together brown sugar, flour, butter, and cinnamon. Mix together with fork and sprinkle over unbaked muffins.

Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.