Crockpot Bread Pudding

I love, love, love the crockpot. It is one of the best tools to help achieve a more stress-free life. If for some strange reason you haven’t gotten one yet, I URGE you to hop on over to to your favorite Stuff-Mart and get one. And I mean NOW! They are a ton of bang for your buck.

We’ve made this dessert for several very nice dinners. It is easy (my middle name). It is beautiful. And it is delicious. We made it for my husband’s last birthday AND we just made it for Dr. J. Rufus Fears when he came for dinner before his recent history lecture. He is a bit of a celebrity in our house. You would think our daughters were making dinner for a president or a rock star.

Anyway, here it is. These recipe instructions will serve 6. In my photos I have doubled it so we can have leftovers.

INGREDIENTS:

8 slices bread, cubed

4 eggs

2 cups milk

1/4 cu sugar

1/4 cu melted butter

1/2 t. cinnamon

1/2 cu raisins

We use these dried cherries, instead of raisins, that I get from Braums and love it that way!

SAUCE INGREDIENTS:

That’s my bulk sucanat back there. Unrefined sugar. It is healthy (as sugar goes) and I buy it bulk from my food coop so it’s a great price. I now use it for everything instead of regular sugar or brown sugar and it works great. My husband even puts it in his coffee and he is usually a hard one to switch over to the healthier version of something.

2 T butter

2 T flour

1 cu water

3/4 cu sugar

1 t. vanilla

Place bread cubes in grease crockpot.

Hmmm. I’m going to have to work a little harder to get those specks of food off the edges of the crockpot for these photo sessions. Maybe I need a food stylist. Oh! A job for one of the babes!

Beat together eggs and milk.

Not sure you really need a photo of cracking eggs, but I sure like pictures and those look like my 8 year old’s hands which are just so cute!

Into the eggs, stir sugar, butter, dried fruit and cinnamon. Pour over bread and stir.

Cover and cook on High 1 hour. Reduce heat to Low and cook 3-4 hours.

Here is the “Before” close-up.

And now ….. the “After” shot. Yummy. Wonder if I should go make this right now?

SAUCE

Make the sauce just before pudding is done baking. (I make is whenever it’s convenient an hour or so before dinner, then leave it on the stove in a covered saucepan and just heat it back up quickly as I’m dishing out the pudding.)

Begin by melting butter in saucepan. Stir in flour until smooth. Gradually add water, sugar and vanilla. Bring to boil. cook, stirring constantly for 2 minutes, or until thickened.

Serve sauce over warm bread pudding.

For easy printing:

Ingredients:

8 slices bread, cubed

4 eggs

2 cups milk

1/4 cu sugar

1/4 cu melted butter

1/2 cu raisins (we used dried cherries that I got from Braums and love it that way!)

1/2 t. cinnamon

SAUCE

2 T butter

2 T flour

1 cu water

3/4 cu sugar

1 t. vanilla

Place bread cubes in grease crockpot.

Beat together eggs and milk. Stir in sugar, butter, dried fruit and cinnamon. Pour over bread and stir.

Cover and cook on High 1 hour. Reduce heat to Low and cook 3-4 hours.

Make sauce just before pudding is done baking. (I make is whenever it’s convenient, an hour or so before dinner, then leave it on the stove in a covered saucepan and just heat it back up quickly as I’m dishing out the pudding.)

Begin by melting butter in saucepan. Stir in flour until smooth. Gradually add water, sugar and vanilla. Bring to boil. cook, stirring constantly for 2 minutes, or until thickened.

Serve sauce over warm bread pudding.

That’s it. Hope you love it!

And check out this other Mommy Blog. She has links on this page for lots of other Mommies who have blogs with their favorite crockpot recipes.