Custard bread pudding recipe
Bread slices dunked in sweet creamy & buttery custard and baked to perfection makes this mouth-watering dessert called custard bread pudding recipe.
Equipment
- 34.5cm × 5.3cm baking dish
Ingredients
1 cup = 200 ml
FOR MAKING CUSTARD
- 5 cups milk (whole fat)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 6 tbsp custard powder
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
- 4-5 tbsp unsalted butter
FOR LAYERING PUDDING
- 14 bread slices
- Custard (just made)
- Butter for greasing baking dish
- 1/2 cup nuts of your choice (we have used almonds, cashews, pistachios and raisins)
Instructions
- Grease a baking dish with butter.
- Cut bread slices into small cubes. We haven't removed the crust of bread.
- Arrange a layer of half of bread cubes at the base of the baking dish and keep aside.
- Out of 5 cups of milk, take out 1 cup and Luke warm it.
- Add custard powder into the warm milk and mix well. There shouldn't be any lumps.
- Pour rest of the 4 cups of milk in a pan and put on low heat.
- Add sugar, cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder. Mix well.
- When milk turns slightly hot, add custard milk gradually while whisking continuously to avoid formation of lumps.
- Add butter also.
- Let the butter melt and milk should thicken to the consistency of custard by simmering 7-8 minutes.
- When custard attains the requisite consistency, immediately pour half the custard over the bread layered at the baking dish base.
- Sprinkle some nuts all over the custard.
- Now again arrange second layer of bread cubes over the first one.
- Pour rest of the custard over this layer of bread.
- Decorate the top with chopped nuts.
- Bake in preheated oven@180° for 50-55 minutes or until toothpick comes clean.
- Take the dish out and let it cool down completely.
- Enjoy after slicing the pudding.
Notes
You may also apply butter on bread before slicing. Or put small cubes of butter over the dish before baking.
We have used glass baking dish in the recipe but you can use regular cake tin also.