Grilled Bread Pudding With Fresh Fruit Recipes

GRILLED BLACKBERRY BRIOCHE BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat, approximately 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Whisk milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, and salt together in a large bowl. Fold in bread cubes, blackberries, and cream cheese. Set aside until liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes.
• Place a layer of heavy duty aluminum foil or 2 layers of regular aluminum foil on a flat surface. Brush aluminum foil with melted butter.
• Arrange bread mixture in the center of the aluminum foil. Bring short ends together; fold over twice to seal. Bring sides in, leaving room for steam to form; fold over twice to seal.
• Grill over indirect heat until bread pudding is puffed, liquid is absorbed, and edges are toasty, about 35 minutes.
• Remove package from the grill; open carefully using tongs or mitts. Cool for 10 minutes.

TROPICAL BREAD PUDDING WITH GRILLED BANANAS AND VANILLA RUM ANGLAISE

Steps:

• Cut cake into toast-size slices; spread 1 side with softened butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. Lightly brown the buttered sides in a large skillet while preparing other sides the same way. After cooking both sides, remove toasted cake from skillet and place on a plate with about 1/3 cup melted vanilla ice cream, allowing cake to soak up the melted ice cream from the bottom.
• Peel bananas and set aside.
• In skillet over medium heat, melt 1 stick butter. Add orange juice and stir in brown sugar. Stir constantly over medium-low heat until mixture completely liquefies. Add bananas to coat, cooking for about 2 minutes. Remove bananas to grill and continue to cook until tender. Remove sauce from heat, add 2 tablespoons rum, and baste bananas with sauce while grilling. When bananas are cooked to your liking, return them to the skillet with the sauce. Slice as desired; diagonally works best.
• Stir the remainder of the ice cream into a bowl of whipped cream and add 1 tablespoon rum.
• Place a piece of cake on a dessert plate, cover with sliced grilled bananas, top with brown sugar sauce, and ladle vanilla rum sauce around the cake. Sprinkle with toasted coconut and serve.

BREAD FRUIT PUDDING (FEATURED RECIPE THE OLIVE GARDEN)

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350ºF.
• PUDDING PREPARATION.
• SOAK bread in milk for 2 minutes until evenly saturated.
• BLEND eggs, cream, salt, sugar, lemon zest, flour and cornmeal. Add apples, pear, grapes and raisins.
• COAT a 10 - 12 inch baking pan generously with butter. Add bread mixture to pan, spreading out evenly to the edges. Top with fruit batter mixture, spreading out evenly. Sprinkle with rosemary, sugar and drizzle with olive oil.
• BAKE for approximately one hour or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• PLATING SUGGESTION.
• Serve the pudding warm with ice cream.
• Garnish with rosemary sprig.
• VARIATIONS.
• Drizzle with caramel sauce.
• Bake in individual baking cups.
• Use melted vanilla ice cream for vanilla sauce.
• Add 1 tablespoons cinnamon to recipe.