Recipe: Spiked Eggnog Bread Pudding
OK, one more bread pudding but I swear that’s it.
A friend sent me a text the other day, “Can you make me some bread pudding to feed 15 people?”
My reply was, “What kind?”
Hers was, “Whatever you think.”
You never want to leave me with that kind of play.
Spiked Eggnog Bread Pudding |
- Bread Pudding
- 2 cups demarerra sugar
- 5 large beaten eggs
- 2 eggnog
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups French bread, cubed and stale
- 1/2 pound white chocolate chips
Hard Sauce
- 1/2 cup (2 sticks) butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Boubon to taste
- Bread Pudding
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (American).
- Grease a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan with butter.
- Whisk together the sugar, eggs and eggnog in a bowl then mix in the vanilla. Pour over cubed bread and set aside for about 10 minutes.
- Pour bread mixture into prepared pan. Sprinkle white chocolate, mix and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until set. Remove from oven.
Hard Sauce
- Mix together the sugar and butter in a saucepan over low heat.
- Stir together until well blended.
- Add the vanilla, stirring well then the bourbon.
- Pour over the top of the bread pudding.
ICA: Cora vs. Miranda – Outcome
SPOILER ALERT: The following information is the outcome of Cora vs. Miranda. If you want information on the combatants click HERE. If you are only interested in the outcome read on.
The judges for Battle Bourbon were Donatella Arpaia, Kevin Smith and Alison Sweeney.
Cora Miranda
Taste: 26 Taste: 26
Plating: 14 Plating: 10
Originality: 11 Originality: 11
Total: 51 Total: 47
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ICA: Cora vs. Miranda
Chef Paul Miranda has a rich culinary history having excelled both in the uber-competitive restaurant world and in the extravagant demands of the country club set. Paul Miranda’s training began with a years under the James Beard Award winning Chef and Restaurateur Roberto Donna in Washington D.C. as well gatsro-genius Jean-Louis Palladin. After roughly a decade of intense tutoring with these two culinary heavy weights, Miranda struck out on his own.
So those after days of guidance from Donna and Palladin, Chef Paul has head up the kitchens at David Bouley’s Danube and Bouley, the Polo Grill Restaurant at the Garden City Hotel and at the Honu Kitchen & Cocktails on Long Island where his creations earned Honu a spot on the six best restaurants on Long Island by The New York Times.
Miranda has also worked at elite country clubs in Muttontown and North Hempstead. Today he heads up the kitchens of the Brookville Country Club in Old Brookville, New York. At Brookville, Miranda uses his exemplary skills to craft menus that provide just the right amount of glamor. But Kitchen Stadium is a whole different animal. Waiting for Miranda will be Iron Chef Cat Cora.
The judges for Battle Bourbon were Donatella Arpaia, Kevin Smith and Alison Sweeney.
Click HERE for the outcome.
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