Dulce de Leche Bread Pudding

Turn bread pudding haters into believers with this knocks-your-socks-off recipe. Recipe by Carrian Cheney.

Ingredients

1

Bake crescents as directed on can. Cool.
2

Lightly spray 4 mini (4-inch) baking dishes or one 8-inch (2-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Divide and spread dulce the leche evenly among mini dishes or spread in baking dish. Using 4 crescents per mini dish or all crescents for baking dish, tear baked crescents and fill dishes/dish.
3

In medium bowl, stir together remaining Bread Pudding ingredients with whisk. Pour evenly into mini dishes, pressing bread down a little as you go. Refrigerate 1 hour, pressing bread down lightly after 30 minutes.
4

Heat oven to 350°F. Place mini dishes or baking dish in roasting pan or large cake pan; fill pan with water halfway up dishes/dish. Carefully place pan with dishes/dish in oven.
5

Bake 1 hour 25 minutes or until set. Carefully remove from oven; cool 1 to 2 minutes. Remove dishes/dish from water bath.
6

To serve, place small plate over each mini dish or 1 large platter over baking dish; flip bread pudding out of dishes/dish onto plates/platter. Spread any remaining dulce de leche from dishes/dish on top of bread pudding. Serve warm topped with whipped cream; sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. Store in refrigerator.

If you can’t find dulce de leche in the cultural foods aisle of your store, try making your own by filling a baking dish with sweetened condensed milk and tightly covering with foil. Place the baking dish in a roasting pan and fill the roasting pan with water, three-fourths of the way up the dish. Bake at 425°F for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, checking every 30 minutes for a caramel colour.
If you don’t have time to make dulce de leche and you can’t buy it, just substitute 1 bag of caramels with 1/3 cup evaporated milk, microwaving on High at 30-second increments until the caramels can be stirred smooth.