Best Bread Pudding Recipe 445 Food

CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING SOUFFLéS

Steps:

• To prepare the souffle cups, tear off four pices of foil 4 inches long. Split each foil strip in half; lightly spray each of the strips with cooking spray and coat top quarter of piece of foil with 1/4 teaspoon of sugar. Place foil strips around ungreased soufflé dishes, sugar side facing in, extending 1 inch above dishes. Secure foil with tape. Set dishes aside.
• Stir together the 1/4 cup sugar, cocoa and cinnamon in a small-medium bowl. Add 2/3 cup of the milk and vanilla. Stir in bread cubes; set aside.
• In a small saucepan melt the butter. Stir in the flour to form a light paste. Add remaining 2/3 cup milk and cook over medium-low heat until the milk is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat.
• In a large mixing bowl beat egg yolks for five minutes or until thick and lemon colored. Gradually stir in flour and milk mixture. Then, fold in the bread mixture.
• In a large mixing bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks forum (tips curl). Gradually incoprorate 3 tablespoons sugar, beating until it reaches the stiff peak stage (straight tips). Gently fold bread mixture into beaten egg whites. Divide among prepared soufflé dishes.
• Bake in a 350*F oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until a knife inserted near center comes out clean.
• Serve immediately.

BUTTER CREAM-FILLED CAKE

Steps:

• Sponge Mixture.
• Whisk egg yolks with the water until frothy.
• Add 2/3 of the sugar and the vanilla sugar, a bit at a time.
• Continue whisking until the mixture is thick and creamy.
• In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff enough to show and retain the cut of a knife.
• Gradually whisk in the rest of the sugar.
• fill the egg white snow onto the whisked egg yolk mixture.
• Mix together the flour, corn starch and the baking powder.
• Sieve onto the egg whites.
• Fold all the ingredients gently together (do not stir or beat).
• Line the bottom of a 10" (26 cm) round baking tin with a removable rim with baking paper and fill with the sponge mixture.
• Bake immediately in a moderately hot oven for 20 to 30 minutes.
• A moderately hot oven is 340 to 390 F or 170 to 200°C.
• Butter Cream Filling:.
• Blend the pudding powder and sugar with 6 tbsp of the milk.
• Bring the rest of the milk to a boil.
• remove from heat and slowly stir in the blended pudding powder.
• Stir the pudding occasionally while it is cooling down.
• Cream the butter and beat int the cooled pudding one tbsp at a time (the butter and pudding shouldn't be too cool otherwise the cream may curdle).
• Cut the cake through twice horizontally.
• Spread the bottom layer with either a thin layer of jame and then 1/4 of the butter cream filling.
• Lay the 2nd layer over the filling, spread with a little less than half of the remaining cream and lay the top layer over it.
• Coat the sides and top surface thinly and evenly with a little of the remaining cream and sprinkle the sided with almonds .
• Pipe the rest of the cream decoratively over the top.