Hi Bold Bakers!
What do you do when you’ve got boxed brownies knocking around your house?
Well you can always bake them off and eat them, or I can show you how to turn them into
a decadent five star dessert.
We are going to make a brownie bread and butter pudding, but the thing about it is, there’s
no bread it’s all just brownies it’s insane.
I’m gonna move this to the side and we’re gonna get stuck in making this recipe.
So we have our brownies they’re good to go, all we have to do now is make a quick
custard.
So in a nice big bowl crack in some eggs.
Then we’re gonna add in some milk, I’m gonna use full fat milk because more fat more
flavor.
Some cream, this doesn’t have to be heavy whipping cream it can be any cream at all.
Some brown sugar because brownies and brown sugar are best friends.
A little bit of salt, now don’t be shy with the salt I’ll tell you why.
Chocolate loves salt it just makes it taste so much better, and then we’re gonna finish
with a bit of vanilla extract.
And if you have it, if you don’t you can leave it out, but a little bit of almond extract.
And with a whisk just whisk it all together by hand.
There you go it’s nice and smooth all you have to do is just combine everything together.
So let’s talk brownies.
You can use boxed brownies or you can you use my best ever brownie recipe or any kind
of brownie recipe that you like, whatever your preference is use that.
All you want to do is just dunk them into the custard.
As you can see I did cut my brownie pieces kind of small so they can be bite sized pieces.
And then next just for another layer of chocolate because we’ve come this far so why not,
I’m gonna add in some chopped bittersweet chocolate you can also use a milk chocolate
whatever you like.
And then with a spatula, just gently kind of stir your brownie mix into the custard,
what we don’t want to do here is we don’t want to break up the brownies, otherwise this
whole mix will turn into mush.
We just kind of want to make sure the brownies all are getting soaked, give a little bit
of a push down with your spatula until every guy is covered.
Everyone’s good to go now here’s what I love to do with any bread pudding, I’m
gonna leave it at room temperature for around 30 minutes, you can leave it longer if you
like, and let the brownies soak up all the custard it just makes for a way better dessert
at the end.
And then it’ll be ready to bake it off.
So my pudding has been soaking for half an hour this is perfect, I’m gonna bring in
my dish.
Now this is an 8x8 dish use any kind of casserole dish that you have, make sure it’s buttered
because this guy can be a little bit sticky so make sure it’s generously buttered so
you can get it out of there.
And t then just go ahead and pour in your mix.
I used brownies here but maybe you have some chocolate cake in the freezer you wanna use
that up, that will work really well, angel food cake, vanilla cake, you can get really
creative here.
Look at that we’ve already got our dessert ready the longest part of it was actually
waiting for the custard to soak.
So we’re gonna pop this guy into a nice hot oven.
Bake at.
350° F or 180° C for roughly 40-45 minutes.
Just look at this beautiful dessert it’s pretty incredible.
So I only left this in for 40 minutes and I want you to come here to me and I’ll show
you how to tell when it’s done.
So as you can see it’s a little bit firmer around the edges, but in the middle you still
want that jiggle you want it to be soft in the middle it doesn’t mean it’s undercooked
it doesn’t mean it needs more time I’ll tell you why, once this rests and sits it’ll
actually firm up even more so you want that jiggle to make sure that your pudding is nice
and soft, this is perfect.
So as you can see a dessert like this really doesn’t need a lot of boosting up, so I’m
just gonna add some fresh berries on top, just to give it a nice pop of color also to
have them with the pudding because berries and chocolate and cream… forget about it,
it’s delicious.
Gorgeous.
And then what you want do is serve this while it’s still warm, it’s absolutely the best
straight from the oven, a little bit cooled down nice and warm.
I’m serving mine with whipped cream but you can also use vanilla ice cream and that’ll
be amazing.
Oh my gosh.
I have to say this is a great way to up-cycle brownies and turn them into something completely
new, it’s really rich it’s decadent it’s not for the faint of heart, if you’re a
chocolate lover you’re absolutely gonna go nuts for this, it’s absolutely delicious.
Let me know in the comments what you think of this brownie makeover.
And I’ll see you back here real soon for more Bigger Bolder Baking.