When I came across the title of this recipe, I was intrigued. I wasn’t sure if this would actually be a success, but it sounded so interesting I had to give it a try. So behold, Stuffed Pumpkin Cranberry Raisin Bread Pudding.
Ingredients:
1 pie pumpkin, about the size of your hand
1 stick of butter (1/4 cup) plus 1 teaspoon butter, melted and divided
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 large egg
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup half and half
1/3 chopped pecans
1/2 a raisin bread loaf, cut into smaller pieces
1/4 cup fresh cranberries
Lemon-Vanilla Sauce, to taste
1 vanilla bean, split
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
A pinch of salt
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Add the butter to a pot over low heat to melt. Cut off the top of the pumpkin. Reserve the lid.
Scoop out the pumpkin seeds and pulp.
Brush the inside of the pumpkin with 1 teaspoon melted butter. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon brown sugar.
Cut the bread into similar sized pieces.
Top with the lid. Add the egg, sugar, half and half, pecans, raisin bread loaf pieces, and the remaining melted butter to a bowl and stir to combine.
Pour the pudding mixture onto a cookie pan sprayed with cooking spray. Add the pumpkin to the cookie sheet as well.
Bake the pumpkin and bread pudding for 25 minutes. Allow to cool enough to handle and add the bread pudding to the pumpkin.
While the pumpkin and bread pudding are baking, make the lemon-vanilla sauce. Split the vanilla seed down the middle.
Add vanilla bean, water, corn starch, sugar, and salt to a saute pan over medium heat. Stir until smooth and thickened. Add the butter, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Stir to combine. Remove from heat when the mixture is warm.
Pour the lemon-vanilla sauce over the bread pudding as desired.
Have you ever been in possession of a recipe that is so good that you almost don’t want to share it? Well, this is one of those recipes. It took a lot of internal debating before I finally decided to share this recipe with you. (Yes, it is that good).
The bread pudding is sweet and slightly toasted, adding a little bit of a crunch to the dish and the cranberries add a pop of tanginess. The lemon-vanilla sauce is citrusy and sweet at the same time.
But the best part is that the nifty presentation has an additional enhancement: you can eat the pumpkin! Yay!
The pumpkin roasts and softens in the oven, making it easy to scrape away at it bite by bite.
You can make this recipe in individual sizes if you’re really looking for a dessert presentation that wows. Just use smaller pumpkins and distribute the bread pudding among them.
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Wow!! That is amazing! So pretty, and so many great things – plus you get to serve it out of a pumpkin!
Absolutely stunning! What a beautiful, delicious dessert!
This is really a very creative recipe and its a great outcome, lovely one.
Wow, what a beautiful creation! Looks wonderful.
Love it! I carved out a pumpkin to serve soup in… very tiring but well worth it! I love the idea of this bread pudding!
That’s beautiful!! You got me drooling…
ahh.. what a taste. enough just see
Now that is really cool I am sure it is delicious it looks beautiful and has me thinking. I love when other peoples great ideas set my mind spinning. I am visualizing individual pumpkin brulees served in the shell.
What a neat idea! I can only imagine how wonderful that tastes, considering how great it LOOKS!
What a beautiful dessert for Thanksgiving!
I make this dessert but the pudding bakes in the pumpkin. As it bakes, the pudding puffs up sometimes out of the pumpkin shell but then settles and sinks back inside. It is either scooped or sliced. The sliced version makes for a beautiful presentation as it shows the wonderful pumpkin layer and then the creative bread pudding layer showing raisins, cranberries, appricots, various nuts..etc. Whatever ingredients you add to your bread pudding. It is delicious as the pumpkin flavors marries the bed pudding the pudding flavor blends in with the pumpkin As I understand, this dessert was the original pumpkin pie prepared by the pilgrims.
Loved how you used the pumpkin itself as the serving bowl. great recipe. Thanks for sharing.
This looks amazing, my son loves pumpkin so I am going to have to give this a try next weekend. Thanks a lot.
Wow, this is definitely new to me! A cool way to use up pumpkin for sure 🙂
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