Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Caramel Pecan Sauce
You know how I’m always making rules of life?
Well.
I have a new one.
It’s called “If you try calling someone and they don’t answer the phone, don’t hang up and immediately call them back unless you’re on fire or your house exploded”.
Seriously.
Do you want to know what I think when my phone rings and I’m watching a movie or painting my toenails so I don’t answer and then they call right immediately back without even leaving a voicemail?
I think someone is on fire. Most likely, someone I love. So I freak out, and I answer the phone and basically get tricked into a mundane conversation that OMG YOU TRICKED ME YOU TOTAL BRAT.
Usually the people who are Two Call Backers are repeat offenders. It’s disgusting, right?
And the tricky thing is, when you start to not answer the second time, that little seed of doubt plants in your head. And it whispers, “but what if this time something really did happen and their face got dropkicked or their house exploded and you don’t answer and end up being the worst person ever?”
So then you answer, and it turns out their face didn’t get dropkicked. They just want to talk about non life-threatening things.
Sigh.
I’m guessing that since all my readers are cool, and fun, and super duper smart, that none of you do this. But if you know someone who does, just send this post along to them. The truth may hurt, but we’re softening the blow with a yummy dessert.
This was my first time making bread pudding, but it was so easy!! One cool thing about this recipe is that you make the bread mixture ahead and let it sit until you’re ready to spoon it into dishes and bake it up. And it smells amazing!!
(click here for printable recipe)
**adapted from Southern Living
INGREDIENTS
2 large eggs
1 15 oz can pumpkin
1 1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 a 12 oz loaf of french bread, but into 1 inch cubes
Caramel Sauce:
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1 Tablespoon corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, pumpkin, cream, sugar, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and vanilla. Add bread cubes and stir to coat. Cover with foil or plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 8 hours or up to 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease 5 ramekins (this totally depends on size of ramekin but if they’re the kind that I used, you should get 5) and fill with bread mixture. Place ramekins on a cookie sheet and bake for 50 minutes, lightly tenting with foil for the last 20 minutes.
During the last 15 minutes or so of baking, prepare your sauce:
Toast pecans in a skilled over medium heat, stirring frequently for about 3-4 minutes or until fragrant. Remove from heat and set aside. In a small saucepan, cook brown sugar, butter, and corn syrup over medium heat for about 4 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in pecans and vanilla.
Once bread puddings are finished baking, remove from oven and top with tons of glaze. Eat!!
So as not to be wasteful, I had one/twoish of these for lunch yesterday. Delicious!!
Have a wonderful Wednesday and thank you for reading!!
Thanks for visiting my blog! I realize you could be doing more important things with your time. Like watching the news or washing socks. I hope you stay awhile. Much more fun than socks, I promise. 
Ok I’m coming to your house because my husband has me leave the nuts out of everything….and I know what you mean about the repeat callers….know whats worse, when they texted over and over when you say your busy. Gotta love ya friends.
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I was so excited to be the first commenter, like there was a special prize or something that I totally made a typo.
Ok so that dessert looks totally yummy and now I want some. Just a little piece of information for you, I’ve gained 5 lbs since reading your blog….FIVE….that’s like a bunch….haaaa But your recipes are delicious!
LOve bread pudding~~
Also, what I hate is when people call and leave the LONGEST MESSAGE EVER and then leave their call back number and talk super speedy, so you have to listen to THE WHOLE MESSAGE AGAIN!
I do not like the phone, except only to communicate non-verbally in the form of text, tweet or facebook message. I have issues.
But bread pudding is not one of them, so there…
Okay, you’re killing me over here. This looks like the perfect dessert for Thanksgiving, in addition to pecan pie of course. I may be doing this one ahead and freezing it for T-day.
It’s totally acceptable to serve this for breakfast, right? ‘Cause that’s what I’m gonna do.
Yum! My neighbor brought me over some pumpkin bread pudding last week and I have been dying for more. THis looks great with that topping!
ummmmmm….I’m so that person….sorry….I’m going to go out there and let the world know that I am one of the most impatient peeps, and I feel that when I have a question/comment/concern of course the world should be there at my beck and call right?!? ok now I know what NOT to do anymore ; ) but in my defense I mostly do this repeat calling when someone calls me and I miss their call by 2 seconds and I call back to just get nada….where in the flap jacks did they go so fast?! Really how can you call someone and want to talk then get so busy within seconds that you dont notice the return call….I have issues, I’ll just go eat some twinkies and feel better : )
Looks fab! Caramel sauces are sooo good!
My phone pet peeves: telemarketers… can’t stand them.
iknow who i will be forwarding this to. thanks for softening the blow. ;)
I can kind of smell this through the computer. That’s really weird.
Whatever-now I have to make it!
Yeah you did. Delicious!
So. . . . . I have never had bread pudding. But this looks AMAZING! Can it be made ahead by a day or so?
I CAN’T STAND double callers … umm helllloooo – - there’s a reason that I didn’t pick up the first time. It NEVER fails … i always get tricked!! And, I end up cutting the conversation short because I’m already annoyed with them .. the worst are telemarketers *ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!*
P.s your bread pudding – - amazing!
I think I’m more annoyed by people who call, don’t leave a message, and then when they finally get ahold of you on the phone, scold you for not returning their call. LIKE YOU KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT!!!???? OK, enough of the diatribe. You combined 2 of my favorite things. Can’t wait to try this!
I compare it to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football Lucy is holding. Everytime they call twice you run to kick the ball, only Lucy just yanks it away and BAM your stuck in conversation…whaaa whaaa whaa whaaahwahhh (that’s my rendition of the teacher and other adults talking)
I feel the same way about phone calls! Leave a voicemail and I’ll call you back… but don’t just call me back again unless it is an emergency… or you have these pumpkin bread puddings waiting for me!
My mother-in-law is at least a two call backer, if not a three call backer — after 23 years, she just doesn’t get it that if we don’t answer, we don’t want to talk…. about nothing!!!!!! At any rate, love the recipes — I am in love with your blog and I’ve told all my friends about you! You are just awesome! :)
Thank you!! So sweet :)
My phone pet peeve (and I guess this relates more for work), is when they call and leave a generic message. Like: call me- I need to ask you a question about an account.
Really? How about telling me what account and what information you are looking for?
Sorry- I’ll stop now and go back to looking at that drool worthy picture of bread pudding!
now that just looks divine…my mouth is watering
So this recipe looks awesome!
On the callbackeing. My family has a code. If something is terrible wrong (death, fire, emergency, broken down car,etc) you keep calling until you get an answer. If it isn’t something terrible, then call once and either leave a message or don’t. Either way, the other person knows that it was you. Now, call-backing is allowed if you just got off the phone with some one and you forgot to tell them whatever it was that you called about.
That is one of my top five pet peeves! It PISSES ME OFF. Thanks for the public service announcement. And I am back again. Going to make this. This might be my all time Kristan fave! Best part is it’s easy.
This looks delicious. And can I just say that I really appreciate that your printable version is always only one page long. I cannot stand it when I click on a blog’s printer version, only to have it print THREE pages. Not you. Another reason you rock!
Yep, mmmhmmm…I totally planned it that way…
Thanks so much for reading!! Hope you enjoy the bread pudding :)
Kristan, I am DEFINITELY making this, pronto! It looks amazing!
About phone calls…My mother-in-law used to do that hang up and call back thing. NOW she just calls and leaves a message over and over and over. The other day she literally left 14 messages saying the same thing. Sadly, I think she may be getting dementia, but it was still mind-boggling! :(
I’m thinking this would make an awesome Christmas morning breakfast (possibly even lunch and dinner too). Yummy!
I love anything pumpkin! And, seriously, nothing drives me as crazy as “two call backers.” If I didn’t answer, it was probably for a reason!
Ok, to heck with the phone calls, I am all about bread pudding! I will so be making this!! I think I should try it out for hubby & me first don’t you?? :-) Then I could have it twice this month, hahaha
Thanks so much for posting!
UGGGHH! My Mother-In-Law does that phone crap! She hardly EVER, leaves a voice mail, her conversations are mind boggling boring and pointless. Thank goodness for screenings with caller ID and answering machines. She’s not on FB, would not be on FB, she hates computers and pretty much everything else. Anyhoodle, This recipe sounds delish. Bread pudding, yum! Pumpkin bread pudding with caramel-pecan sauce, super yummy yum!
I know exactly what you’re talking about, but I am the opposite person… wondering if the person I’m calling fell asleep at the wheel or slipped in the shower and can’t get up… Carpe Diem… or something…
Anywho- I love infusing pumpkin into everything and this sounds so original and yummy! Can’t wait to try it!
Looks so delicious!!
Can’t wait to make this. I’m thinking I maybe the most popular mom at school when I make this in a casserole and take it for the teachers to eat….it is progress report time, KACHING.
I love bread pudding! It’s one of my absolute favs but if I make it I eat it. All willpower goes out the window. Not that I have much to begin with. lol
mmmmmmmmmm
Ahhh I was JUST talking about making pumpkin bread pudding and you beat me to it!! haha J/K!! I wont be that far behind you!
Oh my goodness! Because I use e-mail to subscribe I don’t see your posts until the next day (meaning today). I needed a fun start to my morning and you definitely provided that! I too can’t stand it when people call right back, unless it’s one of my kids. They know I’m not the greatest at answering my cell phone…usually because I’ve turned the volume down so low that I can’t hear it. Can’t wait to try the pumpkin bread pudding. It looks so yummy!
I can just imagine how incredibly *fabulous* that must smell & taste. I simply MUST smell & taste it IRL.
You crack me up! My Mom just did this to me last night!
But really, the worst offenders are my in-laws. One of them will call the house number, and if no one answers, they’ll call the home office number and then if we don’t answer that, they will each start calling our cell phones at the same time and if we still don’t answer the whole cycle just starts again except now they are each calling from their cellphones so the house and the office phones are ringing at the same time and it is PURE INSANITY! And 99% of the time it’s because they’re bored and they just want to know what we made for dinner or something equally mundane.
Anyway, the bread pudding looks delicious and the timing is perfect because I just received brand spankin’ new ramekins for my birthday. Thank you!
If I don’t have those little bowls, could I make it in a 8×8 pan or even a 9×13 pan? Would love to make this, but I can’t see buying these bowls for just this one recipe.
My husband is a repeat offender! He will not only call the home phone then my cell phone and back to the home phone. I didn’t answer b/c I’m busy but then I too start to wonder if it is important and it isn’t. Even if I show him this post, it will not stop him. Repeat offenders will continue to always do it.
That looks amazing! I have to say – in our family that is considered an EMERGENCY code! My sister did it once to me at work and she started the (second) call like this, “I know, I know, it’s the emergency signal, but I was wondering if you wanted to meet me at McDonald’s for lunch?” …..SERIOUSLY? I was in a meeting and about blew a gasket!
Okay, clearly I am just now getting caught up for the week and not just stalking your blog. :) Wow…you are truly amazing. You can cook, and you are seriously, incredibly funny. Your blog is absolute perfection!
Since this has a vegetable in it, it’s perfectly fine to eat for breakfast. Yay!
please can you stop now? I’m getting really crazy about making them right now
That looks scrumptious! I always get the big cans of pumpkin on sale and then only use half of it, so I’m hanging on to this recipe to use up the rest of the cans. Love the topping, too!
Every Wednesday I cook dinner at my church. I had someone ask for bread pudding so this Wed. I dove right in. I used a cross between Southern Living and Emeril Lagasse and had fabulous results. Who knew that bread pudding was so easy? not me. I made a whiskey sauce and a vanilla sauce (for the kids). That fifth of Jack Daniels was a little conspicuous in my kitchen at the church, but oh, well. You do what you have to for a tasty dessert, right? I will definitely use this pumpkin recipe soon. We already discussed caramel sauce for the regular bread pudding. yummy. I’m excited.
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If they don’t leave a message it must not be that important!
I think I am going to make this with the left over Almond croissants I have in the freezer!
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