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Sticky Bun Bread Pudding

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Source: Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan

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• Golden Cinnamon Brioche Bread
• make dough one day ahead then shape and bake the next
• 2 packets active dry yeast (4 teaspoons)
• 1/3 cup just-warm-to-the-touch water
• 1/3 cup just-warm-to-the-touch while milk (I used skim)
• 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 sticks (12 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature but still slightly firm
• For the Filling
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 6 TBSP packed light brown sugar
• 2 TBSP ground cinnamon
• 6 TBSP unsalted butter, at room temperature
• Sticky Bun Glaze:
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 stick unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 1/2 cup pecans
• Custard:
• 3 extra large eggs
• 2 extra large egg yolks
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar

Put the yeast, water, and milk in the bowl of a stand mixer and, using a wooden spoon, stir until the yeast is dissolved. Add the flour and salt, and fit the mixer with the dough hook, if you have one. Toss a kitchen towel over the mixer, covering the bowl as completely as you can to keep you from being covered in flour! Turn the mixer on and off in a few short pulses, just to dampen the flour (you can peek), then remove the towel, increase mixer speed to medium-low and mix for a minute or two. At this point you will have a dry, shaggy mess (it's true).

Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula, set the mixer to low and add the eggs, followed by the sugar. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat for about 3 minutes, until the dough forms a ball. Reduce speed to low and add the butter in 2 Tablespoon size chunks, beating until each piece is almost incorporated before adding the next. You'll have a dough that is very soft, almost like a batter. Increase the speed to medium-high and continue to beat until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl, about 10 minutes (This made my heavy kitchen aid mixer dance across the counter, so you may want to listen and be available to steady the mixer).

Transfer the dough to a clean bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature until nearly doubled in size, 40-60 minutes. Deflate the dough by lifting it up around the edges and letting it fall with a slap into the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator. Slap the dough down in the bowl every 30 minutes until it stops rising, about 2 hours, then leave the covered dough in the refrigerator overnight.

If making Brioche loaves: Butter and flour 2 8.5 X 4.5 inch loaf pans. Pull dough from the fridge and divide into two equal pieces. Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll out dough as thin as you can while still keeping it in one piece. Spread half of the filling evenly on top the dough. Roll up tightly and place into prepared pan with ends tucked under. Repeat with second loaf.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Bake until loaves are well risen and deeply golden, about 30-35 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes, then run a knife around the sides of the pans and turn the loaves out onto cooling racks. Cool at least one hour.

To Make the Glaze: In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, bring the brown sugar, butter and honey to a boil over medium-low heat, stirring frequently to dissolve the sugar. Pour the glaze into the buttered pan(9 -x-13), evening it out as best you can by tilting the pan or spreading the glaze with a heatproof spatula. Sprinkle over the pecans.

Custard: Whisk all ingredients together.

To make the bread pudding slice pieces of the cinnamon bread, removing the crust. Start stacking bread on top of Sticky Bun Glaze. Stop when you reach the top of the pan. It took me about 1 and loaves of bread. Pour half the custard mixture over the bread and press down to help the bread soak up the liquid. Keep adding liquid until the bread has soaked it in. You may have some custard left.

Place pan into another pan that will hold a water bath. Bake the bread pudding(in a 350F oven) for1 hour or until golden on top. Cool 10 minutes and serve warm. Spoon sauce from bottom of pan over the bread pudding.