Game Night Ravenous Hordes Baking #2

Tonight's dilemma is brought to you by sick kid.  Rosie is under the weather, nothing seems to be causing it, she is just low energy, has a fever and is whiny.  So someone (Rosie) has spent the day watching Treehouse kids tv.  This is okay but I missed Little Misses' school party and a tea at her school, but hubby did make both those events. 

Also game night was cancelled due to a friends birthday that all the gamers are attending. So I figured I would be off the hook from baking something but there was a lot of left over fruit from the party so we are having a pre-party get together and now I am back on making something for the ravenous hordes.  On a current trip to Costco we picked up some cinnamon raisin bread with the plan to make bread and butter pudding which is a favorite for our family.  So I had to throw together a quick bread and butter pudding so I used my sister-in-laws recipe as a base and changed a few things, mostly out of necessity since we didn't have 4 cups of milk in the house, but surprisingly we had some table cream which will hopefully make it tasty.  The other ingredient that we didn't have enough of was sugar.  It is really hard to bake without sugar, especially when the recipe calls for it.  I did have some finer berry sugar so I cut it down a bit and hopefully that will work. 

This recipe is from my sister-in-law and it is totally amazing.

Miti's Whiskey Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Bread Pudding

1 Loaf Cinnamon Raisin Bread (or you can use what ever bread you want, add 1 cup raisins)

3 tbsp Butter

3 Eggs

3 cups Milk

1 cup Cream

2 tbsp Vanilla

2 cups Sugar

1 tsp Cinnamon

-Butter a large and relatively deep oven pan with the butter. Arrange the bread, or as much as will fit. If using raisins with regular bread, hide the raisins among the bread.

 

I've arranged the bread, it isn't pretty but so what.

-In a large bowl mix the other ingredients. Pour over the bread. Press down so that all the bread gets moistened.

 

The custardy liquid is whisked together and ready to pour over the bread.

The bread has been mushed into the custardy liquid, I didn't leave it to sit long enough but that just means that doesn't soak up all the juice, still it is delicious.

-Let stand for an hour (for today's pudding, I didn't have enough time to let it stand.) Bake for another 45-60 minutes at 375F or 200C

Out of the oven and ready for the sauce.

-While still hot cover with Southern Whiskey Sauce.

We were too desperate to eat it so pictures had to wait until some of the pudding had been consumed.

Southern Whiskey Sauce

8 tbsp Butter

1 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Bourbon

2 tbsp Water

1/4 tsp Nutmeg

1/8 tsp Salt

1 large Egg, beaten until Frothy

-In a saucepan combine all ingredients EXCEPT the egg (you can also leave out the bourbon until just before adding the egg so less of the alcohol burns off.)  Cook stirring until the sugar has dissolved.  Add the egg while whisking vigorously.  Bring to a simmer and cook until thickened, about 1 minutes.