Challah Bread Pudding with Crème Anglaise

Name: Challah Bread Pudding with Crème Anglaise
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: unsalted butter; challah egg bread; crusts; dried cherries; cranberries; eggs; sugar; half-and-half cream; vanilla; sugar for sprinkling

Preparation info

Makes
one
, Serves 6 to 9

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home

By Anna Olson and Michael Olson

Published 2010

About

Bread pudding may seem like a homey comfort food, but when you make it, you use a classic French custard ratio in the pudding, and the sauce demonstrates another classic French custard technique (even though the sauce translates as English cream).

Ingredients

5 Tbsp

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Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Brush the sides of a 9-inch (23-cm) square baking dish with some of the melted butter. In baking dish, toss bread cubes with remaining melted butter and add dried cherries or cranberries.

Whisk together eggs and sugar. Whisk in cream and vanilla.