Make Ahead

white chocolate cranberry bread pudding

November  8, 2010
4.5
2 Ratings
  • Serves 8-10
Author Notes

This began years ago as a misreading of Nora Ephron's bread pudding recipe in "Heartburn." I initially used sweetened condensed milk instead of evaporated milk, and it was still the "carmelized mush" she described. Over the years I changed ingredients, proportions, and cooking time and experimented with fruits and chocolates, finally settling on cranberries and white chocolate. My friend Alison came over today to taste test my last of four tries at a perfectly balanced holiday bread pudding and we agreed, as we sank into a diabetic coma, this was the best. —MarthaLynn

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 can of sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 tablespoons nutmeg
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 2 cups fresh cranberries
  • 3.5 ounces white chocolate bar, broken into pieces
  • 1-1 1/2 large loaf of stale, crusty bread
Directions
  1. Melt butter in and pour into large mixing bowl.
  2. Add next 4 ingredients and mix well by hand.
  3. Add thawed or fresh cranberries and stir gently until mixed.
  4. Tear up stale bread into 2" pieces, enough to fill 3-quart covered casserole .
  5. Add bread to mixing bowl and stir.
  6. Pour mixture into buttered 3-quart covered casserole. Leave at least 2" space to the top as butter will bubble.
  7. Bake with cover on at 350 degrees for 90 minutes.
  8. Remove cover and stir in white chocolate pieces. Return to the oven for another 10 minutes, uncovered.
  9. Serve warm.

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3 Reviews

luvcookbooks November 28, 2010
Just put the pudding in the oven. Is the 2 T. nutmeg a typo? I used about half a teaspoon.
 
MSD November 9, 2010
This looks incredible. I can't wait for Thanksgiving so I can try it!!
 
anita_rosen November 8, 2010
Wow - this is a decadent desert. I love bread pudding and this one is interesting but not difficult to make.