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Instant Pot bread Pudding with Pecan Caramel Glaze

This Instant Pot Bread Pudding with Pecan Caramel Glaze is perfect to make in your Instant Pot. The bread pudding stays moist and delicious and is topped with a sweet and nutty pecan glaze. 
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword instant pot bread pudding
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 5 minutes
Servings 8 people
Author Tanya

Ingredients

Bread Pudding Base

  • 1 loaf challah bread cut into large 1 inch pieces
  • 1 ¼ cup milk
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 eggs lightly beaten
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 Tablespoon butter melted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Pecan Glaze

  • ¾ cup dark corn syrup
  • 2 eggs lightly beaten
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 2 Tablespoon melted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup chopped pecans

Caramel Pecan Glaze

  • 4 Tablespoon butter
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup dark corn syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt
  • ⅓ cup heavy cream
  • ½ cup chopped pecans

Instructions

Prepare bread pudding base

  • Place challah bread in a large bowl, set aside. Whisk milk, heavy cream, eggs, granulated sugar, melted butter, and vanilla extract in a medium sized bowl. Pour milk mixture over challah bread and lightly toss to ensure bread pieces are fully covered. Set aside and allow to sit for 1 hour.

Prepare Pecan Glaze

  • Whisk together brown sugar, corn syrup, eggs, melted butter, vanilla extract, and pecans. Set aside.
  • Grease a 7 inch bake pan (or springform pan) with butter. Add a layer of your bread pudding base, then a layer of pecan glaze, and so on until the bake pan is full, finishing with a layer of pecan glaze on top.
  • Pour 1 cup of water in bottom of Instant Pot. 
  • Place bread pudding in Instant Pot with bakeware sling or foil sling on top of trivet. Cover and cook on high pressure for 30 minutes. Allow pressure to natural release for 15 minutes, then manually release any remaining pressure.
  • Remove bread pudding from the Instant Pot and set aside.

Prepare caramel glaze

  • Place a heavy bottom saucepan over medium high heat. Whisk together butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, heavy cream, vanilla extract, and salt. Allow mixture to come to boil and reduce heat to medium and allow mixture to cook for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Test your glaze to see if it coats the back of a spoon. If it does, remove pan from the heat. Stir in chopped pecans.
  • Pour caramel glaze over finished bread pudding. 

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Notes

  • Your bread pudding is done when a knife that’s entered into the pudding comes out clean (or mostly clean). To be 100% sure, grab a Quick Read Thermometer and check to make sure the center is 160 degrees.
  • If you can’t find challah, brioche bread works fine. Brioche bread is a tad bit sweeter so you may need to adjust the sugar when substituting.
  • You can serve this recipe with or without the last caramel glaze. I love it with it and think the extra effort in the stove is totally worth it.

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