Pumpkin and Spice Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Hello!  How are you?  Have you started cooking and baking?  I have turned into a cooking and baking machine, BUT I love it, I love every bit of the standing endless hours in the kitchen, having my hands feel as if they are sand paper and feeling as if I am so tired and yet so much more to do!  This is my passion.

I share with you a recipe I have created.  I started thinking about this over the weekend and as we speak I have this recipe in the oven cooking.  So here you go, I hope you enjoy!  And by the way, if you cannot fit this in for Thanksgiving, you can make later in the season!

Step one

Slice 1 to 2 inch cubes from a loaf of French bread.  If your French bread is not stale, place in your oven to promote your pieces to dry and become stale.

Step Two

Prepare and bake recipe for a Spice Cake
Mix by hand in a bowl and you may need a wire whisk to blend
1 1/3 cup of sugar
1 tablespoon and ½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon nutmeg
2teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ginger
½ teaspoon cloves
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/3 cup of butter
2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 cup milk
Grease and flour a 9 X 13 pan
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes until done.

Once the cake is baked and cooled cut cake in 1 to 2 inch cubes and place on cookie sheet until cubes are dry.  You can promote the dryness by placing in a 200 oven until pieces become dried.

Once your bread and spice cake have become stale and or dried out.  Prepare custard sauce for baking.

Pumpkin and Spice Custard Sauce – whisk in a large bowl until well blended.
1 can pumpkin pie filling
3 eggs
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups whole milk
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 tablespoon vanilla
¼ cup praline pecan liquor
2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup golden raisins
3 tablespoon of melted butter

Place 3 heaping cups of the French bread cubes and 2 heaping cups of the cubed spiced cake in the bowl of the Pumpkin and Spice custard sauce.

Let the custard sauce soak with the cubes bread until the breads are fully soaked.  Mash with hands or spoon to entail bread has been thoroughly soaked.

Place Pumpkin and Spice Custard Sauce and Bread into a 9 X 13 casserole dish which has been greased with butter.

Bake at 350 degree preheated oven for one hour.  Let cool and refrigerate.  Maybe served cold or heated in microwave along with whiskey sauce.  Recipe for whiskey sauce follows;

 

Whiskey Sauce

1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon cornstarch and 1 ½ tablespoon of water – blended together
4 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/3 cup whiskey and bourbon

Place heavy cream in a double boiler and bring to boil, add the cornstarch and water mixture, whisk until cream becomes thickened.  Make sure the bottom of the pot does not burn.  Once the cream has been thickened, remove pot from heat and stir in sugar and bourbon.  Let the whiskey sauce cool.  Serve with bread pudding, enjoy and have fun! (If you feel as if sauce has not thickened to the right consistency place sauce in a microwaveable bowl and heat slowly, whisking in between heat settings until the sauce has thickened to your performance).