The beauty of bread pudding is that you can make it however you like it! Mine often includes chocolate chips and/or sauce as well, but this time I went with a vanilla rum sauce with a bit of caramel sauce drizzled on top simply because everything is better with a little caramel. I don't really have a recipe, but my base is simply eggs, butter, sugar (white and brown), milk, heavy cream and whatever spices I decide will go well with my chosen sauce.

@Amzungu Ours, passed down from my maternal grandmother, involves slightly stale biscuits, cocoa powder, sugar, eggs, and milk or ‘cream’ (evaporated milk). The result is dense and rich, almost like a brownie. No recipe, it just has to ‘look right’, lol.

@CarolinaGirl60 That sounds delicious! Grandma's recipes,as cryptic as they can sometimes be, are the BEST.

I assessed the situation rather comprehensively, and the boys and the pets were in the basement, so most of us were being responsible.

Haha, that does sound similar. It had barely been raining and storms weren't even forecast! But so it goes in the midwest. Had I taken shelter, both would have burned. I just couldn't do it. Bread pudding is one of my favorites.

Thank you, it turned out quite well. I love to bake, and do it often for stress management. The deadlier the recipe, the better the therapy.

That was my plan. My basement door is just a few steps away from my kitchen.

All good here...the bread pudding, I mean.

@Amzungu So glad to see you're back and doing well! The bread pudding looks delicious. Thanks for sharing your ingredients.