Butterscotch Bread Pudding

I never made butterscotch sauce at home. The name itself, sounds too elegant for me to try my hands on it. I used to grab those tiny butterscotch chips available in store. Sometimes, the store bought chips not up to my expectation and i started to get bored with those golden chips. Finally, i decided to give myself a chance with making butterscotch sauce at home. To my surprise, this is the easiest sauce that i ever tried. With a very little simple ingredients, my home made butterscotch sauce is ready. I'm so excited that i drizzled it over almost on everything from toast to ice cream, i'm enjoying every bits of it.

When i have some stale breads resting on my kitchen counter, instantly i made bread pudding and drizzled my butterscotch sauce over it. The soft custard bread pudding topped with sweet and buttery sauce indeed, a comfort food that i would like to enjoy after a light weekdays dinner. The butterscotch sauce were perfect to dress up the simple bread pudding to an elegant dessert. Forget about those diets and adding inches, indulging yourself over a little treat once in awhile is no harm at all.


Ingredients

4 cups torn stale bread
3 eggs
2 cups milk
1 tbsp vanilla essence
1 cup granulated white sugar
1/4 cup dark raisins
2 tbsp butter


Butterscotch Sauce

1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup hot water
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/2 tbsp butter
2 1/2 tbsp cream
Pinch of salt


Methods

For Bread Pudding

Preheat oven at 350'F or 175'C with baking rack placed in the middle of the oven

In a sauce pan, melt butter and pour over a 9'inch baking tray

In a large bowl, combine milk,eggs,vanilla essence and white sugar. Beat till the sugar dissolve.

Add in the torn bread and raisins, mix till the bread well coated with the custard. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking tray and bake for 35-40 minutes or till golden. Cool for about 20 minutes and start preparing the butterscotch sauce


For Butterscotch sauce

In a saucepan over a medium flame, add flour and brown sugar. Stir well and add in the boiling water and salt. Give a good stir to break lumps, if any. Bring it to simmer and stir continuously for about 5-6 minutes

Add the vanilla essence, butter and cream. Stir for 30 seconds and remove from heat

Drizzle over the hot butterscotch sauce on the bread pudding and serve