Imagine how glorious your day would be if you took plain old, super soft white bread and baked it with milk and sugar, bananas and bourbon.
Seriously… what are you doing right now? Unless you’re shoe shopping or naked with someone you like… I think you should stop what you’re doing and at least think about making some bread pudding.
Or you could watch this video.
Bake Out with Jill and Joy. We’re at it again. We do a fair amount of giggling. We eat piping hot bread pudding and try to pretend that we’re not burning our freaking faces off. I also announce myself as the winner of the game of life… cause yea.
Are you one of those people who thinks that they don’t like bread pudding? Would it make you feel any better if I called this Baked French Toast? Would you feel even better still if I told you that you can totally get away with bourbon at breakfast? Yea. Sneak it in with milk, eggs and bread and no one will think you a lush…. or at least I won’t.
This bread pudding is unique. It’s not a completely soggy mushfest. The bottom layer of cooked bread and custard is soft and flavorful. The top layer of bread pudding is crispy, buttered toasted topped with a good helping of cinnamon sugar. It’s the best of both worlds and you know it.
Plus banana (including a dash of banana extract), plus bourbon… plus awesome.
Fresh bananas are fine indeed. I like kicking the banana flavor up with a touch of banana extract. If this offends you, go heavy on the banana slices and throw in some vanilla extract.
Banana Bourbon Bread Pudding
adapted heavily from Sweets
serves 8 in a 9×13-inch pan
10 slices of white bread, toasted and sliced in half diagonally
1/2 stick (4 Tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
3 eggs
2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup granulated sugar (brown sugar would also be great)
generous pinch of salt
3 Tablespoons bourbon
1/2 teaspoon banana extract
2 bananas, sliced
2 Tablespoon granulated sugar, for topping
1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon, for topping
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9×13-inch pan and set aside.
Lightly toast 10 slices of white bread and butter each slice. Cut each slice of bread in half diagonally. Layer bread slices in pan, butter side up so that the bread tips are pointing upwards.
In a small sauce pan, heat the milk and sugar just until the sugar is dissolved.
Whip the eggs and pour the warmed milk mixture over the eggs while whisking the eggs thoroughly.
Add bourbon and banana extract. Pour the custard over the bread slices. Add banana slices to the bread pudding, placing them in between the bread slices and deep into the custard. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the custard is set. Remove from the oven and sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar. Let cool to room temperature before serving.
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This sounds soo heavenly…
Love your video! You guys are so funny!I love bread pudding, but for some tragic reason haven’t really ever used booze! What was I thinking?! I guess it’s not too late to redeem myself. I better get crackin!
A delicious pudding! So mouthwatering.
Cheers,
Rosa
Hi Joy
What brand of Banana Extract did you use and where did you purchase it. Also, you say you can also use brown sugar in the bread pudding, how much would you use and is this in addition to the white sugar or is it in place of the white sugar.
i’m still in Seattle, and away from my banana extract, so I can’t tell you the brand right now.
if you’d like to use brown sugar just substitute it for the white sugar. easy as pie.
Ha! Woman, you put a smile on my face every day “naked with someone you like…” fantastic!
This looks so good! It makes my gestational diabetic belly cry though :( Must save for later this year…
That was great indeed, i so loooove your videos, they make me giggle and want something sweet! Keep on please
Mmmmmmmmmmm. It must taste delicious.
I made the caraeml pudding yesterday !!!! Wow… Are you sure this pudding is not a sin?
Delicious recipe! I loved the video and laughed a lot! Thanks for warming up our days!
Love the video! And I’d love the bread pudding too, especially with the bourbon.
I can’t wait to try this! It sounds amazing! Maybe I can make this as a side dish to some of my cupcakes. It’s ok to eat an entire meal of baked goods, isn’t it?!
I have banana liquor, I could sub that for the extract, right? Looks awesome Joy! Love seeing you team up with Jill, you two make a swell pair!
That’s it, I’m leaving my cubicle heading to the office kitchen and making bread pudding. I’m sure someone has a bottle of bourbon in their desk that I can borrow!
This sounds so good! Wish I could make it right now!
I drooled.
I love bread pudding! You two are way cute together in the kitchen–great chemistry as a team.
Oh yes, I should really be making bread pudding right now – because what I am actually doing is not at all fun, and bread pudding is as fun as it gets. My mom’s favorite dessert is banana bread pudding and since her birthday is this weekend, I’ll have to make this for her!
Um yes. We will make this. And eat it quickly. Bananas? Bourbon (with a bow!!)? Bread? Wait, those might be our favorite foods. Combined! Hurrah!
This looks so yummy. I also loved the video, especially the cartoon at the beginning. You guys are so cute!
Seriously…I made chocolate bread pudding this week….SO YUMMY!!! I wish I put booze in mine though…
the opener to your video is simply wonderful! that music (and your recipe) have turned my morning around already :)
ummmm will try this
dear joy,
you are cool. jill is ANNOYING.
well now… that’s not a nice thing to say at all.
Jill does seem a little, well, stoned.
True that. Maybe Jill had too much bourbon before you made the bread pudding? :D
Love your Baking Out videos!! Wow – I cannot wait to try this! I think it’s time for a brunch party…you can have a brunch party with one person, right? :-)
duh.
YOU’RE PRETTY LIKE SNOW WHITE!!! i think you should be snow white for halloween or everyday :)
y’know what would be good too? 99 bananas (banana schnapps, i think?) if you(me) can’t find banana extract. then you(i) would have a bottle of banana schnapps to add to sangria or banana daiquiris or even banana bread… i mean, if you’re already adding burbon right?
OMG this looks divine! Love the video too :) This begs for some toasted pecans if you ask me…
agree.
I think bread pudding is too mushy for me. I like bread nice and toasty, but I guess that’s another ballgame. :)
Wei-Wei
Why why WHY am I in work right now? I should be making this pudding!
I think I’m in love………..lol
um hai. that looks awesome! you had me at bourbon & bananas.
The bananas make me want this for breakfast. And the fact that the bread is cut into diagonals like that…And, calling it French Toast just might make it seem more okay. I think this will make an appearance this weekend.
Alrighty then! I have a bunch of red bananas leftover from Rose Levy Berenbaum’s new Rose’s Heavenly Cakes. Perfect for this! Bread pudding is divine made with leftover croissants only who has leftover croissants? It means buying day old croissants for bread pudding because it is TOTALLY worth it.
This looks absolutely delicious! However… I am not a banana fan. :-( Any suggestions for banana substitutions?
I see a bourbon purchase being part of my weekend errands! And I still need to find blueberries for your Blueberry Black & White cookies. Those looked so amazing as to be unreal!
That looks awesome! What if I don’t have bourbon? Would it be any good with rum?
You guys are too adorable and this recipe sounds deeeevine. Thanks, Joy!
I heart your bake out videos!! I could practically smell the bread pudding :)
Yum yum yum!! I need to run to the store to get ingredients and make this STAT! That’s a pretty sweet video, you ladies are so fun and giggly : )
Bourbon for breakfast! I mean, really, what’s better? :)
So, maybe I’m a lush. And maybe I don’t actually have any bourbon, but one day – when I have money to go and get some bourb – we will have a wonderful reunion. And all will be well with the world. Hahaha.
Joy- you’re great! Thanks for making booze for breakfast become more socially acceptable. :D
bourbon for breakfast? yes please and thank you
i’d pig it out with a bit of home-made chocolate sauce/syrup, maybe some blueberry jam? blueberries and bananas go splendidly together
you guys are hilarious, to the infinite and beyond
Bread, bananas and bourbon! Now that’s a great breakfast or brunch! This sounds delish.
this looks absolutely amazing and delicious
By the way, you two make a great team, I’m loving the videos! This recipe looks awesome, can’t wait to see what you come up with next!
HUH!!! Amazing!!! I am going to the store now to get bourbon!!!
the camera loves the two of you!!
BTW you’re kind of awesome and even though I don’t really like bananas, this looks AMAZING! Do you think you could do other kinds of fruits, like peaches or mangos maybe?
peaches would be a hit! mango might be a little strange.
How marvelous and how easy. Sure beats tearing day old bread into small chunks. What a great combination. One of us will make this soon.
Love the alliteration. Bananas Bread Bourbon….beautiful! I think pecans would be AWESOME…too bad it couldn’t be Brazilnuts…but that B wouldn’t taste so great.
Love the video. Keep ‘em coming. My two sons recognized ya’ll from the chocolate pudding video. :) You’re famous! haha.
So, I’m one of those people that doesn’t like bread pudding. Thanks for letting me call it baked French toast! Now all I need is an excuse to make the house smell this good in the morning!
Looks like so much fun! I need to try this recipe this weekend!! Bananas, bourbon, puddin’… how can one go wrong?
I used to be in the no-like bread pudding group, I think it was a texture thing(I didn’t like mush bread pieces). But recently had something similar to this and loved it! I’ll have to add in the bourbon next time!
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