Stale Bread = Decadent Bread Pudding

I absolutely LOVE  LOVE bread pudding. My first experience with bread pudding was introduced by my husband. He insisted it was the best dessert everrrr. I fell in love with Ruggles White Chocolate Bread Pudding. OMG I had foodgasm in my mouth.

While making my bread pudding I had Ruggles' Bread Pudding in the back of my head.

My recipe came from All Recipes with some little tweaks:

INGREDIENTS

Original recipe makes 1 - 8 inch square pan

•  6 slices day-old bread
•  2 tablespoons butter, melted
•  1/2 cup raisins (optional)
•  4 eggs, beaten
•  2 cups milk
•  3/4 cup white sugar 
•  1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

I used about 7 rolls of stale Hawaiian bread, I used less sugar, ran out of vanilla extract so I used maple extract and a tad bit of almond extract and sprinkled white chocolate morsels. 

DIRECTIONS

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan. Drizzle melted butter or margarine over bread. If desired, sprinkle with raisins. I didn't have any raisins on hand. 

3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.

4. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.

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Last minute I decided to crumble a mixture of brown sugar, butter, and almonds on top since I used some almond extract then I baked.

Ta Da! 

Divine and Decadent

The almonds gave it a special light crunch. My dad had 2 servings because it was so good.

Happy Baking!