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About Alina Eisenhauer

Alina Eisenhauer is the executive pastry chef and owner of Sweet, a retail pastry and specialty cake shop and dessert bar in Worcester, MA. Her fascination with food began at an early age while living in the Berkshires. Alina's combination of talent, guts and confidence led to her first pasty job at age16! Even a diversion into education and employment in exercise physiology could not keep Alina from her true calling. Food is her passion and her life which is very lucky for pastry lovers.

Recipe

Ingredients

9x13" pan
enough cubed white bread (or leftover pastry - cinnamon rolls, danish) to fill the pan
9 eggs
12 oz sugar
3½ cups whole milk
1 tsp vanilla
½ of 1 whole nutmeg, grated
1 tbsp butter (optional)

How-to

Preheat oven to 350º
Tear or cut bread into 1" chunks into a 9x13" baking pan and set aside
In a separate bowl, whisk together sugar and eggs
Next, whisk in the milk
Add vanilla extract and nutmeg and stir, making sure to get all the sugar off the bottom
Pour custard mixture over bread and with your hands, push the bread down to get it submerged in the custard
Cover with foil and bake in 350º oven for 45 minutes. Check at 30 minutes, remove foil and bake for last 15 minutes uncovered. Make sure custard is set before removing from the oven
Let cool before serving
Optional: Warm slices of bread pudding in a saute pan with 1 tbsp of butter until bread is just browned. Add caramel sauce and warm both sides to bread with caramel
Plate & serve with whipped cream