It’s been a busy Sunday so it’s going to be a short post today – let’s get to it. This week’s SMS was chosen by Candace of Candy Girl: sweet almond bread pudding! Earlier this year I had bread pudding for the first time when we made it for TWD and I really enjoyed it. However, it was chocolate bread pudding, and everything is better with chocolate, so I was curious to try a non-chocolate bread pudding and see if I still liked it 🙂
I made a few changes to the super simple recipe. I knew I wanted to scale it back but it didn’t divide easily so I wound up doing a little less than a quarter of a recipe. The recipe calls for 6 eggs and I only used 1 and with the rest of the ingredients I divided by 4 and then used just a bit less than that. I couldn’t find brioche at the store I stopped at and didn’t have time to make it so I just bought a single roll from the bakery and used that. The recipe calls for sprinkling sugar and almonds on the bread pudding before baking, but I skipped the almonds.
I didn’t have a chance to get to the raspberry sauce Melissa recommends in the book – maybe next time. I threw a few scoops of vanilla ice cream on top instead and gave it a taste. Yum! I was a big fan! I wasn’t too surprised as the almond flavor came from almond extract, which I love. I’ll definitely make this again and am so glad to know it’s not only chocolate bread pudding that I enjoy! Many thanks to Candace for hosting this week’s recipe! You can find the recipe on her blog or in the book. You can check out the rest of the week’s treats by visiting the SMS site.
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I love the look and sound of this bread pudding. I agree that almond extract is yummy in baked goods. And what isn’t improved with a litte vanilla ice cream?
Bread puddings are some of my favorite cold weather desserts. There are recipes for English bread-and-butter puddings that are the best things in the world, and Southern bourbon bread puddings are pretty good, too!
Just the name alone sounds amazing to me! Looks fantastic.
Thanks for baking with me this week! Great job scaling down the recipe and the ice cream looks fab.
Looks great, especially with that ice cream plopped on top! Almond is one of my favorite flavors, too, so I can just imagine that this was a good vehicle for it. Nice photos!
Your pudding looks WONDERFUL! I didn’t bake this week and it looks like I missed a good one!
Oh, your bread pudding looks sooo good with the vanilla ice cream on it! I made some simple changes to mine too, including scaling back the recipe since I will probably have to eat all of it myself! 😀
I’ve been craving something almond for quite a while. I was thinking of making some biscotti, but now I think I’ll try this out.
Anything is better with ice cream! That looks amazing!
ICE CREAM! I love it!
I made mine with ice cream as well and it was very good.
Loved the pictures!
Your bread pudding looks delicious! I had a hard time scaling back the recipe too, but ended up making half. I’ll just be eating bread pudding by myself for the rest of the week since no one else in my house will eat it!
Your bread pudding looks great. I like the ice cream on top!
Yum… I love bread pudding, and this sounds fantastic. Love the almond flavor.
I’d love to try this recipe, it looks great. and i think ice cream is better than raspberry sauce 🙂
The bread pudding looks especially yummy with the ice cream on top. I foolishly made a half batch of raspberry sauce for a quarter recipe, thinking I’d use a lot of it for something else which now probably will not get made; so you’re probably better off without if for a quarter recipe.
It looks delish!!