I think I've waxed poetic on my love of recipes that repurpose foods that would otherwise get thrown away, such as stale bread, before, so I'll spare everyone that rant. But, take that tidbit and know that I adore bread pudding. I think I might even like bread pudding more than I like bread. I also love almonds and anything almond-flavored, so this recipe was a must try for me!
I made 1/3 of a recipe with my left over BBA English Muffins (that I have yet to post). I simply trimmed the crusty parts off, and I was ready to go. 1/3 of the recipe made 4 ramekins of bread pudding. I made 2 as written, and two with chocolate chips because doesn't chocolate just make eveything a little bit better? The raspberry sauce just sounds delicious to me, but I have so many apples around here right now that I topped my bread pudding with cinnamon apples. I will definitely try this with the raspberry sauce in the future. Yes! This recipe and I have a future together. I love the toasted almonds and sugar on the top, I love the almond flavor of the bread pudding. I short, I thought that this pudding was swoon-worthy! Thanks to Candace for such a great pick! You can visit her blog for the recipe.
I think I'm in a perpetual game of catch-up these days. I explained to a friend the other day that I was behind in life right now. I need a full two weeks to catch up and do important things like get my sister a birthday present (her birthday was last Sunday), do my laundry (rapidly going beyond even the out-of-control category), not to mention catch up with schoool. One step at a time, though, and I'll catch up with these Devil's Food Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting that SMS posted last Sunday. These cupcakes were Holly's pick, and boy howdy, they're tasty. Worth the dirty dishes, and I don't often say that these days!
The original recipe is for a cake, but I think that cupcakes are so much easier to dole out. I made 1/3 of the recipe -- 12 cupcakes -- and this is perfect for someone who owns just one muffin tin! I did mess around with the frosting recipe a little bit. I looked at the P&Q for this recipe and Karen gave her suggestions for decreasing the amount of butter and upping the peanut butter flavor of this recipe. I'm all for anything that cuts the butter in frosting (I hate it when it's too buttery!) so I decreased the butter to about a stick (this was only enough frosting for my 12 cupcakes) upped the peanut butter to 1 1/4 cups, and I added powdered sugar until I thought it was sweet enough. I LOVED this frosting!! It was very reminiscent of the inside of a peanut butter cup (sweeter though) and it was by far my favorite part of the cupcake. This is a very strong statement coming from a girl who scrapes frosting off of her cake! I generally don't like frosting at all -- I much prefer cake!
Thanks to Holly for picking such a fantastic recipe. If you're interested in trying it, you can visit her blog for the recipe. Now, I can happily say that I'm caught up with Sweet Melissa Sundays . . . for the present. It's a nice feeling.
12 comments:
Oooh. English muffins in bread pudding! That HAS to be good!
It sounds like life is keeping you busy. Im glad you were able to cake with SMS this week. I was sad to miss it. Your bread pudding looks great and using english muffins was a great idea.
Your SMS cupcakes look great too. I loved that frosting as well. Yours looks so light and fluffy!
I'm so glad to have found another bread pudding lover! I loved that you used what you had on hand and the addition of chocolate. Thanks for baking with me this week!
that bread pudding looks delicious! i'm totally behind on life now, too. i feel like it always happens in the fall. you're just not ready to return to your real life after the summer, but it's there and it's not waiting for you. yuck :(
What a great idea using english muffins! Your bread pudding is great!
And your cupcakes!!! Delicious! Love your change on the frosting -- i thought it was like a PB cup filling too.
Both look delicious! I was a huge fan of both as well. And I sympathize with you about being behind- I was just lamenting about how behind I feel! One day at a time, right?!
I love bread pudding and almonds so this sounds really delicious. It goes on the List!
Peanut butter frosting is one of life's little pleasures. I've made Ina's which is fab, but your concoction sounds pretty darned good. Yum!
Isn't it nice to be caught up with at least one aspect of life?
oh yum!
cupcakes and bread pudding looks good!
Your cupcakes look great. I like the way you decorated them! Glad you like bread pudding. For some reason I love french toast, but don't like bread pudding.
Hi your recipes look amazing
and you have a wonderful blog.
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a two-fer!! can't go wrong there!!
your bread pudding looks great!!
It all looks great, and I just wonder now what it would taste like with the tang of that English Muffin in there! I like how you swirled that cupcake icing and put the little candies along the lines of the swirl...very pretty indeed.
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