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Old-Fashioned Blueberry Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • 8 cups cubed day old bread
  • 8 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries or 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 lemon zest
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 pinch salt

Topping

  • 4 tablespoons sweet butter
  • 1 tablespoon light brown sugar roughly chopped

Garnish

  • 1 cup prepared caramel topping
  • 1 tablespoon whiskey rum or favorite liquour

Instructions

  1. In a buttered 8 X 8 oven proof pan place 1/2 of the bread cubes and 1/2 the blueberries. Top with remaining bread and blueberries.
  2. Mix the eggs, cream, milk, zest, cinnamon, extract, sugar and salt.
  3. Pour over the bread pressing gentlly to submerge the bread. Cover with plastic wrap and soak for one hour.
  4. Preheat oven 350.
  5. Remove the wrap and sprinkle brown sugar on top and dot with butter.
  6. Bake in the preheated oven for 45-50 minutes.
  7. Just before serving heat caramel and whiskey in a microwave proof dish.
  8. Dust pudding with powdered sugar and pour some sauce over the pudding.