Ultimate Brownie Bread Pudding With Coconut Chunks Recipes

BROWNIE PUDDING

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine sauce ingredients and keep warm. , In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, combine egg, milk, butter and vanilla; add to dry ingredients and stir until moistened. Fold in chocolate chips. Pour into a greased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Pour warm sauce over batter. Do not stir. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until cake is firm and floats in sauce. Let rest 10 minutes. Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.

THE ULTIMATE BROWNIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line one 9x9-inch baking pan with foil and spray with cooking spray.
• In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Stir in the sugar until dissolved. Remove mixture from heat. Gradually pour the melted butter into the beaten eggs, whisking constantly, until mixture is fully incorporated. Stir in the vanilla.
• Sift the flour, cocoa and salt together. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, mixing until combined. Stir in the walnuts. Spread the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until brownies are set (a toothpick inserted in the center should have small crumbs clinging to it, rather than wet batter), 45 to 50 minutes. Do not overbake!

COCONUT BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish with butter, and dust with confectioners' sugar.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, egg yolk, coconut milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and coconut extract. Mix until smooth. Stir in 1 cup of flaked coconut, and 1/2 cup fresh coconut. Fold in bread cubes until evenly coated. Pour into prepared baking dish. Set aside for 30 minutes.
• Bake on a cookie sheet in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Sprinkle top with remaining 1/2 cup flaked coconut. Continue baking for 25 to 30 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly tapped.

COCONUT BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with rack in center. Butter eight 6-ounce ramekins or custard cups; set aside. Arrange bread in a single layer on two rimmed baking sheets; bake until crisp, tossing once, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven. Reduce oven heat to 300 degrees.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together eggs, granulated sugar, milks, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. Stir in toasted bread; let sit, tossing occasionally, until bread has absorbed liquid, about 5 minutes.
• Divide bread mixture evenly among ramekins. Place on a baking sheet; bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a pudding comes out clean, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Let cool. Serve dusted with confectioners' sugar.

ULTIMATE BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Note: bread can be any non-savory firm textured bread.
• Avoid soft supermarket bread- makes pudding mushy and avoid rustic crusty loaves with open crumb- doesn't absorb and yields too firm a pudding.
• Whole wheat cinnamon raisin works well, but a brioche or challah work the best.
• Preheat oven to 350, butter a 13x9 baking dish.
• Whisk milk and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Meanwhile scrape vanilla bean into milk mixture and throw in pods.
• Heat to steaming, but not boiling.
• Discard vanilla pods.
• Whisk eggs and yolks in a large bowl, gradually add 2 cups of hot milk mixture, then pour egg mixture into the saucepan with the hot milk.
• Strain and whisk in cream.
• Spread bread cubes in prepared dish.
• Slowly pour custard over bread being sure to saturate all of the bread.
• Bake in the center of the oven for about 1 hour or until a small knife inserted in the center of the pudding comes out clean.
• Serve warm or chilled with whipped cream or caramel sauce.
• Note: you can add raisins, currents, dried cranberries, sour cherries or any other dried fruit you like.

FABULOUSLY EASY COCONUT BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Spray 9X13X2 pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Prepare your favorite brownie mix according to package directions for cakelike brownies. The amount of eggs, oil and water in the ingredients above are common to most prepared brownie mix instructions (for cakelike brownies), but follow your box exactly.
• Spread the brownie mix evenly in pan. Bake 16-18 min or until brownie is set. Do not overbake! You are just trying to set the batter, not finish it.
• Layer coconut and chocolate chunks over brownie base.
• Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over coconut and chocolate chunks.
• Sprinkle with nuts.
• Bake 20-30 minutes or until edges of coconut are deep golden brown and nuts are lightly toasted.
• Cool completely. Cut into bars. Step back and hear the applause.