Bread Pudding

One of my favorite dessert is bread pudding.  Whenever I have week old leftover toast and don't know what to do with it, I would use it make a wonderful bread pudding.  I hope you will like it too.

Ingredients:

5 thick slices of toast (shredded into small pieces)

5 large beaten eggs

15 teaspoons of granulated sugar

1 ½ cups of milk

1 tablespoon of Cognac (optional)

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

½ cups of strawberry cut into quarters (or fruits of your choice)

For the Toppings

¼ cup (½ sticks) butter soften

10 teaspoons of brown sugar (save 4 teaspoons for later use)

¼ cup of raisins

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven at 350 degrees F.  

2.  Grease a 8x8 baking dish.  

3.  Mix the eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla extract and Cognac together, then add in the shredded toast and strawberries.  Pour mixture into the greased baking dish, and let it seat for 10 minutes.

4.  Spread the crumbles on top of the pudding mixture and sprinkle the remaining brown sugar on top.  

5.  Bake for 35-45 minutes or until set.

6.  Dust a layer of powder sugar before serving.  Serve warm or cold. 

Serves 9