Brioche Bread Pudding**

Name: Brioche Bread Pudding** (Pudding Royal)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Makes 2 desserts, each serving 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 cups (750 ml) whole milk; 3 tbsp (1¾ oz./50 g) butter; 2 tbsp (25 g) sugar; 1 Bourbon Madagascar vanilla bean, split lengthwise; 10½ oz. (300 g) assorted dried and candied fruit (such as golden raisins, currants, candied cherries); 1½ cups (10½ oz./300 g) sugar; Vanilla custard sauce, chocolate sauce, or apricot or raspberry coulis; 8 egg yolks (scant ⅔ cup/160 g); 5 eggs (1 cup/250 g); 9 oz. (250 g) leftover day-old brioche

Pudding Royal

Preparation info

Makes 2 desserts, each serving
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre

By Chefs at Lenôtre

Published 2021

About

Ingredients

For the baking dishes

3 tbsp (1¾ oz./50 g) butter
2

Europe
France
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 340°F (170°C/Gas Mark 3). Grease the baking dishes with the butter, then sprinkle with the sugar until coated.
To prepare the custard, pour the milk into a saucepan. Scrape in the vanilla seeds and add the bean.