Easy Bread Pudding

This bread pudding recipe is extremely easy to make and very difficult to mess up.

Prep Time10

Cook Time50

Total Time1

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, British

Keyword: bread, easy, eggs, milk, pudding

Cut your bread into 1.5 inch cubes. Let them sit out at room temperature overnight or until stale and hard like croutons.
600 g stale bread
In a large bowl mix together milk, eggs, cream, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla.
2 cups milk, 2 large eggs, ¼ cup heavy cream, ¼ cup sugar, 1 tbsp cinnamon, ½ tbsp vanilla
Add the hardened stale bread, mix and let it soak for 5 minutes.
Pour half of the mixture into a baking dish, layer with blueberries, then top with the remaining half of the mixture and top with more blueberries. A baking dish about 10x6 inches will work fine. Keep in mind that the mixture will rise when baked.
1 cup blueberries
Bake at 350F for 40-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. The larger the pan, the shorter amount of time it will take. I used a smaller circular dish which is why it actually took me 50 minutes.
While this bakes, I made a custard

Mix together egg yolks and sugar, then set aside.
4 egg yolks, 3 tbsp sugar
In a saucepan, heat up milk and cream and once it begins to steam or about 170F, remove and slowly stream it into the egg yolk mixture. You want to stream it while mixing to prevent the eggs from cooking.
1 cup milk, ½ cup heavy cream
Once full incorporated, transfer back into the saucepan and cook over low-med heat while stirring until thickened. Make sure to keep a constant eye on it as you don't want the eggs to cook and curdle.