This bread pudding "flan" is a moist, creamy pudding with bits of dry fruit, rum and covered in golden syrup, perfect to go with your choice of hot drink.
Why we ❤️ it
I can sense your confusion: "What's a Bread Pudding 'Flan'?!" Hold on there, an explanation is coming.
The result is a cake that is moister than the traditional Dominican pudín de pan, with a subtle taste of rum (you'd need several cakes to get buzzed), and the contrasting texture of the fruit and flavor of the slightly bitter caramel.
I have to warn you not to expect a super-sweet cake; I went with my preferred level of sweetness, which I find sufficient but lower than most traditional Dominican cakes. It goes great with coffee or tea.
About this recipe
That's what happens when I get creative with naming recipes to avoid angering Google, our lord, and master. This should actually be called a Bread Pudding, which technically it is, but we already have a recipe for Dominican pudín de pan, the traditional Dominican kind, and I don't want to confuse the search engines with more than one option.
For this bread pudding recipe, I found inspiration in our traditional one and a bit from the myriad Christmas fruit cakes that contain alcohol. And a bit from flan too.
And if you find our site because you were searching for a Bread Pudding, I'd rather you started with the very popular traditional one. This one is different from the other one.
Recipe
[Recipe + Video] Bread Pudding 'Flan'
Ingredients
For fruit
- ½ cup dry fruit mix, [90 g], chopped
- ¼ cup golden rum
For pudding
- 2 egg (medium)
- ½ cup sugar (white, granulated), [130 g]
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder, [1.5 g]
- 2 cup whole milk, [470 ml]
- 6 cup diced loaf bread, [185 g]
For caramel
- ½ cup sugar (white, granulated), [65 g]
Instructions
Infuse fruit in rum: Mix fruit and rum, let it sit overnight in the refrigerator (or 8 hours). When it's time to make the pudding separate the fruit from the rum, discard the rum, and set fruits aside to use later in the preparation.- Prepare pudding mixture: Crack eggs into a bowl. Add sugar and whisk until it is well mixed and a slightly lighter color. Pour in milk followed by the cinnamon and mix well. Add the bread and stir until all of the bread has soaked some of the liquid. Cover and let it rest in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Prepare baking pan: Mix 2 tablespoons of water and sugar for the caramel in a small saucepan. Heat over medium-high heat until it turns into a golden color. Remove from the heat and immediately pour it into a baking pan (see notes). Make sure to use a holder to grab the pan, as it will be very hot. Coat the pan with the caramel, working quickly before the caramel sets. Once the caramel has hardened, cover the bottom of the pan with the fruit.
- Making the pudding: Spoon the pudding mixture into the baking pan, making sure not to disturb the caramel or fruits. Cover the pan very tightly with the pudding with aluminum foil.
- Cook and serve: Bake in a bain-marie (hot water bath) for an hour in an oven preheated to 300 ºF [150 C]. Remove from the oven and separate the edge from the pan with a toothpick. Let the pudding cool to room temperature and place it on a serving plate. Serve at room temperature.
Tips and Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is calculated automatically based on ingredients listed. Please consult your doctor if you need precise nutritional information.
Video
I made this exactly as per the recipe. We loved it. Thank you. Also, I am impressed with the beauty and simplicity of your recipes and videos (as well as the entire website), and plan to try more.
What do you do with the rum?