Cooking Lights Mango Coconut Bread Pudding Recipes

MANGO COCONUT BREAD PUDDING WITH RUM SAUCE

Steps:

• Soak raisins in rum for 15 minutes then strain reserving rum for sauce.
• Butter a 9x11 casserole pan with 1/2 ounce butter.
• Place bread cubes in prepared pan top with raisins.
• Process in a food processor the egg mixture ingredients till smooth. Pour over bread, cover with plastic wrap and let soak for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven 350. Bake for 40 minutes top with 1 tablespoon coconut and bake 5-10 more minutes.
• Meanwhile melt the butter add 1 cup brown sugar and cream stir till dissolved. Add rum that was used to soak raisins.
• Serve pudding hot with lots of sauce and garnish with sliced mango.

MADDOG'S MANGO COCONUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two (8-by-4-by-21/2-inch) loaf pans well with no-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light using an electric mixer on medium speed. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. On low speed of mixer, beat in flour and nutmeg. Fold in mangoes and coconut.
• Divide batter between prepared pans and bake in center of oven about an hour or until center of each loaf is set. If edges seem to be getting too brown, cover them lightly with foil the last few minutes of baking.
• Let sit in pans about 8 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks to cool. Best if completely cool before slicing. Slices even better from refrigerator. Makes 2 loaves; 16 slices ea.

DELICIOUS COCONUT BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Lightly butter the bottom of a 9" flameproof baking dish. Arrange the bread cubes evenly in the dish. In a large bowl, whisk together the yolks, whole eggs,coconut milk, cream of coconut, salt, nutmeg and mace.
• Stir in one cup of flaked coconut.
• Pour the custard mixture over the bread cubes, pressing the bread cubes gently to soak up the custard. Let the mixture stand (covered in foil) for one hour in the refrigerator.
• Preheat oven to 325.
• Sprinkle the top of the pudding with the remaining 1/2 cup of coconut flakes.
• Again, cover the baking dish with foil, poking a few holes in the top to release the steam.
• Put the baking dish into a roasting pan on the oven rack, pour hot water to come up halfway up the sides of the baking dish.
• Bake until pudding is firm to the touch, approximately one hour and 15 minutes.
• Remove the foil and bake of 15 minutes more.
• Remove the baking dish from the water bath and put baking dish under the broiler, about 4 inches from broiler until golden, approximately 1 to 2 minutes.
• Let pudding cool completely. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
• Pour the sauce over individual pudding servings (if desired) than top with toasted coconut.