Are you looking for a quick and easy dessert that is delicious and yet won't take up a lot of time? Look no further! I bet you didn't know you could cook bread pudding in the air fryer.
Well you can, beautifully. This air fryer bread pudding has a golden crisp top and yes is beautifully soft and indulgent inside. It's perfectly sweet and goes together lickety split.
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In fact you can be enjoying this delicious dessert in pretty much less than half an hour from when you put it together. (Excluding the time it takes to preheat the fryer.)
Not only that, but it uses relatively few simple ingredients to make it. Its also a great way to use up stale bread.
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This is also the perfect summer dessert for when you want something a little bit heartier as there is no need to heat up the kitchen by having your oven on!
Quick and easy to make? Simple ingredients? Keeping the kitchen cool? Delicious as well? Count me in!!
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WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE AIR FRYER BREAD PUDDING
A few simple every day kitchen ingredients, a six inch cake tin or casserole dish and an air fryer.
You will need:
- 4 cups (140g) cubed white bread (3/4 inch cubes, Italian, French, Brioche, Challah)
- 4 TBS sultana raisins (golden)
For the custard:
- 2 large free range eggs
- 1 cup (240ml) whole milk
- 1/4 cup (60ml) heavy cream
- 5 TBS sugar
- 2 TBS melted butter (hot)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- pinch salt
To serve:
- icing sugar (confectioners) to dust
- vanilla ice cream
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The best breads to use are Brioche, French or Italian Bread or Challah. They give the nicest softest bread custard, but you can also use other kinds if you wish of that's all you have.
You can use stale sandwich bread, burger buns, hot dog rolls and dinner rolls. Place the cubes onto a baking sheet and let them air dry for a few hours prior to using.
You may also use a stale French baguette. In this case, assemble and allow the pudding to rest overnight in the refrigerator, covered.
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Don't like raisins??? NO problem! Just use some fresh or frozen berries. If using frozen, thaw and drain first.
You can even use chopped dried apricots or date. Chocolate chips are also very nice. Just saying. 😉
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HOW TO MAKE AIR FRYER BREAD PUDDING
You won't believe how simple this really is to make!! As I said you will need a six inch deep cake tin or casserole dish.
To make the custard, whisk the eggs in a bowl until emulsified. Whisk in the milk, cream, vanilla, salt and sugar. Whisk in the hot butter. (If the butter is hot it blends in better instead of coagulating.)
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Butter a six-inch round cake tin or casserole really well. Add half of the bread cubes. Sprinkle 2 TBS of the sultana raisins over top. Pour over half of the custard. Press down lightly with the back of a spoon.
Repeat with the remaining bread cubes, sultanas and custard. Again pressing the bread down gently to submerge it in the custard.(Don't worry if it pops up again, you only want to dampen it all.)
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Preheat the air fryer to 350*F/180*C for 15 minutes.
Place the pudding into the air fryer basket and into the air fryer. Cook for 15 minutes at 350*F/180*C. At this time the top should be nicely golden brown and a bread knife inserted near the center should come out clean. (If not done return to the air fryer and cook for a few minutes longer at the same temperature.)
Leave to set for about 10 minutes and then dust the top with icing sugar. Serve warm with scoops of vanilla ice cream.
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I personally love this served warm with ice cream on top. I use my cookie scoop to scoop out several small balls of ice cream for each serving. I think it looks very pretty that way.
In the UK they would probably serve this with warm custard or cold pouring cream. Either way would be delicious also!
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Wanting bread pudding, but don't have an air fryer? No problem, you can cook this in the oven if you wish. Preheat the oven to 350*F/180*C/ gas mark 4.
Place the pudding dish into a Bain Marie holding hot water to come halfway up the sides of your baking dish. Bale for 30 to 35 minutes until the top is golden brown and a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.
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VANILLA SAUCED BREAD PUDDING - For those who enjoy a rich sauce with their bread puddings. Deliciously indulgent.
CHOCOLATE BOX BREAD PUDDING FOR TWO - A smaller sized bread pudding perfectly sized for two people in which you can use chopped up chocolate bars or leftovers from a box of chocolates. (What are those?)
SWEET ALMOND BREAD PUDDING WITH BLACKBERRY SAUCE - These little baby bread puddings have beautiful flavor and the sauce goes just perfect with them. They are great for entertaining.
Air Fryer Bread Pudding
Yield: 4
Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 20 Min
You won't believe how quick and easy this dessert is to make. And all in the air fryer. No fuss, no muss and delicious! You will need a six-inch casserole or cake dish.
Ingredients
You will need:
- 4 cups (140g) cubed white bread (3/4 inch cubes, Italian, French, Brioche, Challah)
- 4 TBS sultana raisins (golden)
For the custard:
- 2 large free range eggs
- 1 cup (240ml) whole milk
- 1/4 cup (60ml) heavy cream
- 5 TBS sugar
- 2 TBS melted butter (hot)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- pinch salt
To serve:
- icing sugar (confectioners) to dust
- vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- To make the custard, whisk the eggs in a bowl until emulsified. Whisk in the milk, cream, vanilla, salt and sugar. Whisk in the hot butter.
- Butter a six-inch round cake tin or casserole really well. Add half of the bread cubes. Sprinkle 2 TBS of the sultana raisins over top. Pour over half of the custard. Press down lightly with the back of a spoon. Repeat with the remaining bread cubes, sultanas and custard. Again pressing the bread down gently to submerge it in the custard.(Don't worry if it pops up again, you only want to dampen it all.)
- Preheat the air fryer to 350*F/180*C for 15 minutes.
- Place the pudding into the air fryer basket and into the air fryer. Cook for 15 minutes at 350*F/180*C. At this time the top should be nicely golden brown and a bread knife inserted near the center should come out clean. (If not done return to the air fryer and cook for a few minutes longer at the same temperature.)
- Leave to set for about 10 minutes and then dust the top with icing sugar. Serve warm with scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Notes
You can use stale sandwich bread, burger buns, hot dog rolls and dinner rolls. Place the cubes onto a baking sheet and let them air dry for a few hours prior to using.
You may also use a French baguette. In this case assemble and allow the pudding to rest overnight in the refrigerator, covered.
You can leave out the sultana raisins and use fresh or frozen berries (thaw and drain.)
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This is not bread pudding, it’s bread and butter pudding.
ReplyDeleteTo my knowledge, bread and butter pudding is composed of slices of buttered bread, sometimes spread with jam or marmalade, layered in a dish and then with a custard poured over top. Raisins are sometimes sprinkled over all. Bread Pudding, as in an Old fashioned bread pudding is something entirely different (https://www.theenglishkitchen.co/2014/12/old-time-bread-pudding.html) This recipe I have shared here today is a North American Bread Pudding, which is quite different from what constitutes a bread pudding in the UK. Have a nice day.
DeleteMarie Rayner. Whilst I appreciate what you are saying, this website is called The English Kitchen so I have to agree with Anonymous's comment that this is bread and butter pudding and not bread pudding.
DeleteFrom Wikipedia: Bread and butter pudding is a traditional bread pudding in British cuisine. Slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins are layered in an oven dish, covered with an egg custard mixture seasoned with nutmeg, vanilla, or other spices, then baked Variations: In addition to being baked with custard, the pudding may be served with additional custard or cream. Sometimes raspberry, strawberry, blackberry or mixed fruit jam, marmalade, or other sweet preserves will be spread upon the bread, along with the butter. Other modern variations include scattering fresh grapes between the layers of bread, melting apples into the egg-milk mixture, and using unusual types of breads, such as brioche, to make it. Lemon or orange peel will add a characteristic flavour. It is traditional to use stale bread.
DeleteBread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines. It is made with stale bread and milk or cream, generally containing eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or suet and, depending on whether the pudding is sweet or savory, a variety of other ingredients. Sweet bread puddings may use sugar, syrup, honey, dried fruit, nuts, as well as spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, or vanilla. The bread is soaked in the liquids, mixed with the other ingredients, and baked.
Savory puddings like breakfast strata may be served as main courses, while sweet puddings are typically eaten as desserts.
In other languages, its name is a translation of "bread pudding" or even just "pudding", for example "pudín" or "budín". In the Philippines, banana bread pudding is popular. In Mexico, there is a similar dish eaten during Lent called capirotada. In the United Kingdom, a moist version of Nelson cake, itself a bread pudding, is nicknamed "Wet Nelly".
It is a pudding made with bread but it’s not the traditional British bread pudding- that doesn’t have a custard within it but is delicious with custard over it😋 The traditional bread pudding recipe uses stale bread, milk or water to soak it and then a lot of dried fruit, mixed peel, sugar and eggs (although can be made without) and melted butter and sprinkled with sugar. It looks more like a heavy stodgy fruit cake than this version of a bread and butter pudding
DeleteI have a traditional bread pudding recipe here which you are free to try if you like: https://www.theenglishkitchen.co/2014/12/old-time-bread-pudding.html
DeleteI am well aware of the differences between that and this, and have been making the old traditional one for a very long time. I have never claimed that this is the same kind of bread pudding, or even that it is a British Bread Pudding. Surely there is room in the culinary world for many versions of things. Have a nice day!