Holiday Sweet Stuff, Mmmmmm

During the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons there is all kinds of great sweets around. We went to one of our favorite restaurants on Thanksgiving Day, Copeland's. They had a White Chocolate Bread Pudding that was amazing. I found a recipe for a version of this dish. It isn't exactly the same but it is very good none the less. It is a little time consuming but it wasn't bad. Lots of ingredients that you probably don't need to have a lot of but what ever. This stuff is good we can get back to eating better after the holidays. Here is the recipe that I used.

24" loaf of some type of sweet bread (I used a french bread, all I could find)

4 1/2 cups of heavy cream

1 1/2 cups milk

3/4 cup sugar

15 oz. white chocolate (I used chips)

3 large eggs

12 egg yolks

dash of nutmeg

cinnamon to your taste

Sauce: 1/2 cup oz. heavy cream and 8 oz. of white chocolate.

Preheat oven to 225 degrees. Cut bread into 1" slices discarding the ends. Place the slices on a pan standing up. put them in the oven for 15 min. or until dry but not brown.

Turn oven up to 350 degrees. Place bread in the bottom of a 13x9x2 baking dish.

In a bowl combine eggs and yolks. Combine cream, milk, and sugar in a sauce pan. Heat on medium heat stirring constantly. Heat to just before steaming. Remove from heat and mix in white chocolate until smooth. Pour a very slow stream of hot cream mixture into the eggs whisking constantly. This must be done very slowly with small amounts to bring the eggs up to the same temp as the cream. If you combine to fast you can end up with scrambled eggs (yuck).

Once incorporated mix in nutmeg and cinnamon.

Pour mixture over the bread to cover completely. Use it all the bread will absorb most of the custard mix. Let sit for 20 min pressing occasionally into the dish to keep everything submerged.

Cover with foil and put in the oven for 60 min. Then remove foil and let go for another 20-30 min. until lightly browned on top. Remove from oven and let sit for a min. of 20 min., longer if possible.

While the pudding is resting put the 1/2 cup of heavy cream in a sauce pan and heat to a boil. Remove from heat and combine the white chocolate until its smooth. drizzle over the top of the bread pudding. Serve warm. Amazing.