Chef Jim's Maple Bread Pudding

By JimMac

Ingredients

• 8 to 9 slices of white bread, toasted and buttered or any dry bread or croissants
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2/3 cup maple syrup
• pinch of salt
• 2 T maple sugar (if available)
• 1-1/2 t vanilla
• 2 cups half-and-half

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

Method:

Cut the bread into 1/2-inch cubes. Spray a microwave bundt pan well with cooking spray. Put bread cubes in the pan. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the eggs, maple syrup, salt, maple sugar, vanilla and half-and-half. Pour over bread cubes. Allow bread cubes to sit for 30 minutes, occasionally pushing down cubes on top to guarantee that all cubes have soaked up the custard mix.

Microwave on HI for 16 minutes. If microwave does not have a turntable, turn the pan 1/4-way every 5 minutes. Bread pudding will puff-up during cooking.

Remove from oven; bread pudding will fall. Let sit for 15 minutes.

Invert onto plate and serve with maple ice cream.