Friday, July 17, 2015

Caramel Apple Bread Pudding

How To Make Caramel Apple Bread Pudding

Caramel Apple Bread Pudding - Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines, including and not limited to Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, Slovakia, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, India Double ka Meetha and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States. In other languages, its name is a translation of "bread pudding" or even just "pudding", for example "pudín" or "budín" in Spanish; also in Spanish another name is "migas" (crumbs). In the Philippines, banana bread pudding is popular. In Mexico, there is a similar dish eaten during Lent called capirotada.
Caramel Apple Bread Pudding

Bread pudding is made with stale bread and milk or cream, generally containing eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or suet, and depending on whether the pudding is sweet or savory, a variety of other ingredients. Sweet bread puddings may use sugar, syrup, honey, dried fruit, as well as spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, or vanilla. The bread is soaked in the liquids, mixed with the other ingredients, and baked.
Savory puddings may be served as main courses, while sweet puddings are typically eaten as desserts.

Caramel Apple Bread Pudding

Time Duration
Prep Time 20min. 
Total Time 1hr. 30min. 
Servings 16 servings
Ingredients
1 Tbsp. butter
3 small Gala apples, peeled, chopped (about 3 cups)
25 KRAFT Caramels
1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk, divided
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk
4 Eggland's Best® eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
3/4 lb. unsliced white bread, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 8 cups)
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping
Directions
  • Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Melt butter in large skillet on medium heat. Add apples; cook 5 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Remove from heat.
  • Place caramels in microwaveable bowl. Add 2 Tbsp. evaporated milk; set aside. Pour remaining evaporated milk into large bowl. Add sweetened condensed milk, eggs, vanilla and cinnamon; whisk until blended. Add bread; stir until liquid is absorbed. Stir in apples and cranberries; pour into buttered 2-qt. baking dish. Place in water bath.
  • Bake 1 hour 10 min. on or until knife inserted in center of pudding comes out clean.
  • Microwave caramels in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min. or until completely melted, stirring every 30 sec. Drizzle over pudding. Serve topped with COOL WHIP.
Additional Information About Bread Pudding
Regional variations
-In Belgium, particularly Brussels, it is baked with brown sugar, cinnamon, old bread, and raisins or apple.
-In Canada, bread pudding is sometimes made with maple syrup.
-In Hong Kong, bread pudding is usually served with vanilla cream dressing.
-In Hungary it is called 'Máglyarakás' which is baked with whipped egg whites on top of it.
-In Malaysia, bread pudding is eaten with custard sauce.
-In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, black bread is used to make "black bread pudding" (Schwarzbrotpudding).
-In Puerto Rico, bread pudding is soaked over night in coconut milk and served with a guava rum sauce.
-In the United States, especially Louisiana, bread puddings are typically sweet and served as dessert with a sweet sauce of some sort, such as whiskey sauce, rum sauce, or caramel sauce, but typically sprinkled with sugar and eaten warm in squares or slices. Sometimes bread pudding is served warm topped with or alongside a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Source: Bread Pudding
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