Crock Pot Bread Pudding with Buttered Rum Sauce is fabulously delicious and rich. It only takes 10 minutes to prep and then it cooks slowly in the crock pot.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Southern
Keyword slow cooker bread pudding
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 2 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Ingredients
8cupsFrench bread cubes,cut into 1-inch pieces
5large eggs
1cuppacked brown sugar
1teaspooncinnamon
1/2teaspoonnutmeg
1/4teaspoonsalt
1/4cupbutter,melted
1cupheavy cream
1cupwhole milk
2tablespoonsrum,I use dark rum
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
Buttered Rum Sauce
1/2cupsalted butter
1cuppacked brown sugar
1/4cuprum
1/4teaspoonnutmeg
Vanilla ice cream for serving,optional
Instructions
Butter a 5 to 6-quart slow cooker. Add bread cubes.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, melted butter, heavy cream, milk, rum and vanilla until mixed well.
Pour egg mixture over bread cubes. Press down on bread with the back of a spoon until all bread pieces are soaked with liquid.
Cover and cook on LOW for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. It should be set in the middle and crispy around the edges.
To make sauce, melt butter in a small saucepan.
Add brown sugar, rum, and nutmeg. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Cut bread pudding into squares and drizzle with buttered rum sauce. Serve with ice cream if desired.
Notes
Calories does not include the buttered rum sauce or ice cream.