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Banana Bread Pudding

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    Despite the name, this isn’t a pudding that tastes like banana bread, but a dessert that takes regular stale French bread and bananas and turns them into a scrumptious, rum-spiked dessert reminiscent of the famous Southern dish Bananas Foster. A dollop of whipped cream is the perfect finishing touch.
    You can substitute white bread, challah, or even cinnamon bread for the French bread (if you use cinnamon bread, I recommend leaving out the teaspoon of cinnamon). And if your bread isn’t already stale, dry it out by spreading the cubes on a baking sheet and toasting in a 300ºF oven for about 15 minutes.
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    Ingredients
    12 ounces stale French bread, cut into cubes
    4 large eggs
    2 cups whole milk
    1 cup (packed) dark brown sugar
    ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
    ¼ cup rum
    2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    1 teaspoon cinnamon
    1/8 teaspoon salt
    5 bananas, sliced into 1-inch-thick rounds
    Directions
    1. Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Lightly grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.
    2. Place the bread in the prepared baking dish and spread it out in an even layer. Add the bananas and toss gently to mix.
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    3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, brown sugar, butter, rum, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. Pour the mixture over the bread cubes and bananas in the baking dish, pressing down lightly to make sure that all of the bread gets saturated with the mixture. Let stand for at least 15 minutes, or cover and refrigerate as long as overnight.
    4. Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes, until the pudding is puffed and golden brown.

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