Southern Bread Pudding with butter rum sauce

Plate on a Budget visits the South this Tuesday. Follow our step by step recipe and see how easy it is to make this delicious southern bread pudding covered in decadent butter rum sauce!

This dessert is a great way to make use of your day old bread, with ingredients readily available in your pantry. You gotta try it ya'll!

For this recipe, you will need:

• 1 loaf of day old raisin bread cut in cubes

• 4 large eggs

• 1/2 cup milk

• 1/2 cup whipping cream

• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon nutmeg

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 cup brown sugar

• 2 tablespoons of raisings that have been soaked in rum

• chopped pecans to sprinkle top of pudding

For the butter rum sauce, you will need:

• 4 tablespoons melted butter

• 3/4 cup sugar

• 3 tablespoons of rum

• 1/2 cup heavy cream