A Healthier Bananas Foster Pseudo Bread Pudding Recipes

BANANAS FOSTER BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Slice French bread and dry in a 200F oven for 20 minutes.
• Combine remaining pudding ingredients in a large container and blend well with a hand mixer.
• Thinly slice dried French bread and place in an 8 x 10 x 2-inch pan.
• Pour pudding into pan and mush all bread by hand so that the liquid is absorbed and the bread becomes very soggy.
• Be sure to flatten all of the lumps.
• Cover pan with foil and bake at 300 F for 2 ½ hours, or until a skewer inserted in the center of the pudding comes out dry.
• Remove foil and bake for an additional 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Set aside to cool.
• Foster Sauce:.
• Melt butter in a sauce pot.
• Add the brown sugar and cinnamon and mix well.
• Add the rum and ignite.
• Allow the flames to subside.
• Then, stir in the banana liqueur.
• Add fresh bananas and simmer over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until the sauce coats the spoon.
• To Serve: Cut bread pudding into 3 ½ x 3 ½-inch squares.
• Top warm bread pudding with Foster sauce and garnish with mint leaves.

A HEALTHIER BANANA'S FOSTER PSEUDO BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Cut the crusts off the bread and break up the bread into pieces (Or keep the slices together and line the ramekin with them).
• Soak the bread pieces in the egg nog until saturated.
• Peel and mash the bananas.
• Add to the bananas the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and soaked bread pieces (only if broken up; if still whole they should be lining the ramekin).
• Pour into two small ramekins and bake for 25 minutes.
• Once removed from the oven drizzle with a caramel sauce or some pecans (if desired).
• Enjoy!

HEAVENLY BANANAS FOSTER BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spread out angel cake cubes on a large rimmed baking sheet. Bake 20 minutes, tossing three times, until lightly toasted and dry. Turn off oven.
• Whisk milk, eggs, sugar, rum and vanilla extract in a large bowl until sugar is dissolved. Gently stir in cake cubes and banana slices; pour into an 8-inch square baking dish. Cover dish with foil. Let stand 30 minutes at room temperature at room temperature for cake cubes to absorb most of the milk mixture.
• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake, covered, 30 minutes. Remove foil; continue to bake 25 minutes or until pudding is set.
• Let stand 15 minutes. Dust top with confectioners sugar. Server with small scoops of vanilla ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• For the bread and syrup: Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
• Toast the bread cubes on a baking sheet until they start to dry and harden, about 20 minutes. Set aside.
• Raise the oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with butter.
• Meanwhile, to make the syrup, add the butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, rum, vanilla and cinnamon to a small saucepan over medium-high heat and cook, stirring frequently, until the butter is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer until the mixture is thickened, 3 to 4 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly, about 10 minutes.
• For the custard: Whisk together the heavy cream, milk, brown sugar, granulated sugar, rum, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, whole eggs and yolks in a large bowl. Add the bread, pecans and half of the syrup and stir until completely coated (reserve the other half of the syrup for later). Cover and let soak for about 30 minutes, pushing the bread down occasionally so that all the cubes are soaked.
• Thinly slice 4 of the bananas and fold into the bread mixture. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Bake until the custard is set and the top is golden brown, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan.
• Thinly slice the remaining banana and scatter on top of the bread. Drizzle with the reserved syrup. Serve warm, at room temperature or cold with ice cream, if desired.

DELIGHTFUL BANANAS FOSTER BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Stir together first 6 ingredients for pudding in large bowl.
• Heat milk and butter in large saucepan over medium-high heat until melted, stirring constantly (do not boil).
• Stir about one-fourth of hot milk mixture gradually into egg mixture, add to remaining hot milk mixture, stirring constantly.
• Place bread cubes in a highly greased 13 x 9 inch baking dish.
• Pour egg mixture evenly over bread; press bread to absorb mixture.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 45-55 minutes.
• Remove from oven, and let stand 30 minutes before serving.
• Serve with Bread Pudding Sauce:.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, and remaining ingredients in a saucepan over medium-high heat, and cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes (do not boil). Remove from heat.