your own bread pudding

i call this recipe "your own" bread pudding because there is a little bit of room to really make this your own! i had a few different types of bread around the house, so decided to put them to use! i used some leftover bits of a loaf of banana bread i had made and of some challah bread. i think the recipe is so delicious because these two breads made the pudding very moist and the flavor was just a bit sweeter than usual. but, you could use whatever types of bread you feel fitting... i think someone should experiment and replace the banana bread with pumpkin bread! mmm!

ingredients:

3 cups banana bread (1 inch cubes)
3 cups challah bread (1 inch cubes)
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
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to sprinkle on top (optional):
2 tablespoons turbinado sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

directions:

grease a casserole dish (mine was oddly shaped, but around 8 inches by 11 inches). preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
put the cubed bread mixture in the greased casserole dish.
in a separate bowl, beat the eggs. whisk in the milk, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, and sugar. the cinnamon may look clumpy, but it soaks into the bread and tastes fine when cooked. pour this mixture over the bread. make sure all the bread is wet.






put the dish in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. after you take it out, fluff it up a little with a fork so it isn't all flat and weighed down by the liquid.



put it in the oven, and after 20 minutes, take it out and sprinkle the turbinado sugar and cinnamon over the top.
put the dish back in the oven and bake for another 20 minutes (so, if you aren't sprinkling sugar and cinnamon over the top, just cook for 40 minutes).
take out, let cool, and enjoy!



i made this in the morning, so i wasn't really in the mood for rap. i was listening to more mellow music this time.
songs i was listening to:

bat for lashes- prescilla
broken social scene- i'm still your fag
bloc party- two more years (MSTRKRFT remix)
cassino- the gin war
cesare cremonini- figlio di un re
margot & the nuclear so and so's- skeleton key
andrew bird- skin is, my
minus the bear- el torrente