Cinnamon Apple Bread Pudding

Monday nights are not the busiest nights at work, so we are often left with a large amount of baguettes and donuts that we end up having to through away at the end of the night. So last night, instead of throwing them away, my coworker and I took some home. Since my family doesn't really eat bread that often, I thought I would use the day old bread today in a bread pudding.

Cinnamon Apple Bread Pudding

1 baguette - cubed
1 1/2 cups almond milk
1 1/2 cups apple sauce
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 eggs
1 apple (red or green) - diced
1/4 cup raisins
Powdered sugar

After cubing up the bread, mix together the milk, apple sauce, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl. Taste and add more sugar if needed. Beat in eggs. Fold in the bread cubes, diced apples and raisins. Pour mixture into glass pan and place in refrigerator for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350 and bake for 45 -50 minutes until inside is set and top is lightly brown. Dust the top with powdered sugar and serve slightly cooled or fully chilled.

I usually am not a fan of bread pudding, and I added more sugar when writing this post because it originally did not have enough, but overall I actually liked this more than I thought. Even though we don't often have bread in our house, it is always hard to know what to do with it when we do, so I am hoping to come up with more stale bread recipes to re use what would normally be thrown away, so till next time,
Keep Cooking Brooklyn!