Croissant Bread Pudding with Pecan Toffee Sauce
Ingredients
For the Bread Pudding:
Pecan Toffee Sauce:
Instructions
For the bread pudding:
For the Bread Pudding:
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 6 large croissants or 10 small ones, slightly stale
- 3 cups heavy whipping cream
- 6 egg yolks
Pecan Toffee Sauce:
- ¾ cup brown sugar, tightly packed
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter
- ⅓ cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 TBSP Amaretto
- ½ cup chopped pecans, toasted
Instructions
For the bread pudding:
- Tear croissants into pieces and place into a baking dish that has been sprayed with baking spray or lightly coated in butter.
- Mix the egg yolks, sugar and nutmeg together in a bowl.
- Then whisk in the heavy cream and beat until fully incorporated.
- Pour the custard over the bread.
- Press down the bread pieces until the bread is soaked with the custard. You will most likely have extra custard depending on how stale your croissants are.
- Don’t feel like you have to use all the custard.
- Source Blog>>https://www.sweetrecipeas.com/2015/01/01/croissant-bread-pudding-with-pecan-toffee-sauce/