Jack Daniels Bread Pudding Recipes

JACK DANIELS BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Spray your pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• If you haven't already, cube the French bread (approximately 1-inch pieces) and toast them until lightly browned.
• Spread the cubed, toasted bread, raisins, and pecans in the prepared pan. You can absolutely skip the raisins and/or the pecans if those don't appeal to you. I've made it with and without those and it's still amazing!
• In a small saucepan, heat milk and butter over medium heat.
• In a bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt.
• Pour 1 cup of the heated milk mixture to the egg mixture to temper it, then add the egg mixture back into the hot milk mixture.
• Pour the eggs/milk over the cubed bread in the pan. Cover with foil. You can bake immediately or let it soak in the fridge overnight before baking.
• Place a large baking sheet (or other larger baking pan that's at least an inch deep) in your oven and place your dish filled with bread pudding onto the larger pan. Pour water at least half an inch deep into the outer pan.
• Bake at 350°F for one hour.
• Remove foil and place back in oven for an additional 15 minutes, or until nicely browned. During this last 15 minutes, make the sauce.
• Combine all ingredients into a large saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Immediately reduce the heat to low and let it simmer until it begins to thicken.
• Reduce until it's a syrup consistency.
• Pour the sauce over the hot bread pudding. I often have leftovers that I save and add more to the pudding while eating or to pour over ice cream on top of the bread pudding. Enjoy!!

FRENCH BREAD PUDDING WITH JACK DANIELS SAUCE

Steps:

• Crumble the bread into a bowl. Pour the milk over it and let stand for one to two hours. I've found that the longer it soaks in the milk, the better the end result. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9-by-13-by-2-inch baking dish with 1 to 2 tablespoons of the butter.
• In another bowl, beat together 3 eggs, the granulated sugar and the vanilla. Microwave the dried fruit with the 1/4 cup of Jack Daniels for one to two minutes on high, or until plumped. Drain Jack Daniels and reserve for another use, then cool fruit for a few minutes and stir in to the egg mixture, then stir the egg mixture into the bread and milk, taking care not to break up the soaked bread.
• Pour into the prepared baking dish, place on the middle rack of the oven, and bake until browned and set, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
• To make sauce, stir 8 tablespoons butter and confectioners' sugar together in the top of a double boiler over simmering water until sugar is dissolved and mixture is very hot. Remove from the heat. Beat the remaining egg well and whisk it into the sugar mixture. Remove pan from base and continue beating until sauce has cooled to room temperature. Add Jack Daniels to taste (we like it pretty strong!).
• To serve, preheat broiler. Cut pudding into squares and transfer each square to a heatproof serving dish. Spoon whiskey sauce over pudding and run under broiler until bubbling. Or, alternatively, you can just serve the pudding warm with the sauce spooned over. Be careful if rewarming the sauce in the microwave as you can 'scramble' the egg and the sauce turns an unappetizing grayish color and it thickens - while it still tastes great, its not very pretty.

BREAD PUDDING WITH JACK DANIELS SAUCE

Steps:

• Cube bread.
• Set aside in a large mixing bowl.
• Combine all ingredients except butter.
• Mix well and pour over bread.
• Soak bread in milk mixture for 15 minutes.
• Pour into a 13x9 buttered pan.
• Top bread mixture, with cut up butter.
• Bake at 325 for 60-90 minutes or until pudding mixture has risen 1 inch.
• Serve warm Sauce over bread pudding.
• Sauce
• combine ingredients and add sugar and water until dissolved.
• Add butter, and simmer until melted.
• Cook over high heat of 2 minutes.
• Add Jack Daniels, and simmer for 3-5 minutes.

IRISH BREAD PUDDING WITH JACK DANIELS CARAMEL-WHISKEY SAUCE

Steps:

• BEFORE YOU BEGIN (OPTIONAL): Lay out bread slices and allow to get a crusty as possible (I will usually set out at least 24 hours in advance.) This allows the bread to become very dry and crusty so it can absorb as much pudding as possible. ALSO combine the raisins and whiskey in a small bowl, cover, and place in the refrigerator overnight to allow the raisins to soak up as much whiskey as possible. If you forget, the raisins only need to sit for about 30 minutes to soak up quite a bit of whiskey.
• JACK DANIEL'S CARAMEL-WHISKEY SAUCE: Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir continuously until sugar dissolves.
• Simmer until sugar mixture is golden (about 17 minutes). DO NOT STIR!
• Remove from heat.
• Carefully add butter and cream cheese, stirring constantly with a whisk until all clumps are dissolved. CAUTION! Mixture will bubble vigorously and release a lot of hot steam.
• Cool slightly. Stir in whiskey and milk. Mixture will bubble a bit at this step as well.
• PUDDING: Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Brush melted butter on one side of French bread slices.
• Bake buttered side up until lightly toasted, about 10 minutes.
• Cut bread into 1/2 inch cubes and set aside.
• Combine milk, sugar, vanilla extract, evaporated milk, eggs, and UNDRAINED whiskey mixture in a large bowl. Stir well with a whisk.
• Add bread cubes, pressing down gently to moisten; let stand about 20 minutes. If your bowl is a little small, gently fold the cubes into the mixture with a spatula.
• Pour bread mixture into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish coated well with cooking spray.
• Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over pudding.
• Bake at 350F for 35 minutes or until set.
• Serve warm with Jack Daniel's caramel-whiskey sauce.
• TO MAKE THIS KID FRIENDLY: Substitute apple juice for Jack Daniel's in pudding and 1 tablespoon imitation rum extract and 3 tablespoons water in Caramel-Whiskey sauce.