White chocolate French bread pudding w/caramel sauce

By á-39535

dessert

Ingredients

• Caramel Sauce:
• 7 eggs, beaten
• 2 1/2 cups half and half
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup of white chocolate chips
• 1 tlb. vanilla extract
• 1/2 french loaf, broken into small pieces
• 1 stick butter, salted
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup pure maple syrup (I used my home canned pear almond syrup)
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat the eggs and add the half and half. Add sugar and vanilla, beat until smooth. Add bread and white chocolate chips. Stir. Pour into greased baking dish. Make sure the dish you are using will fit into a larger dish. You’ll need to bake the bread pudding in a water bath. Sit the dish with the pudding into the larger pan. Place both pans onto the top rack of the oven. Pour warm water into the larger dish until it reaches approximately 3/4 the way up the smaller pudding dish.

Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Allow to sit in the oven for 10 additional minutes after turning the heat off. Carefully remove the dishes from the oven. Remove the pudding from the water bath and discard the water. Add the caramel sauce to the pudding or serve it one the side.

For the caramel sauce: Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Add the brown sugar, maple syrup and vanilla. Stir constantly until the sugar has melted. Continue cooking over medium heat for five minutes, stirring constantly. Add the cream. Cook for an additional 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove pan from heat…