Beautiful Bread Pudding

• 9 slices whole wheat bread, air dried overnight
• 3 eggs, room temp slightly beaten
• 2 cups soymilk
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 14 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 dash salt
• 1 dash pepper
• 14 cup powdered sugar
• 1 Red Delicious apple
• 1 teaspoon butter, chopped into pea size pieces

1. in a mixing bowl stir together the eggs, soy milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, salt, and pepper.
2. continue stirring while drizzling in the melted butter and set aside.
3. largely cube the dried bread slices and put them into the bowl turning to coat evenly and set aside to soak.
4. pour any remaining tiny bread crumbs and bread dust into the bottom of the buttered baking dish.
5. core and slice the apple into aprox 24 1/8 thin slices and set aside for topping leaving the skin on for beauty.
6. pour half the bread pudding into the baking dish.
7. sprinkle half the powdered sugar on top.
8. pour the remaining half of the bread pudding into the baking dish.
9. sprinkle the remaining powdered sugar on top.
10. arrange the apple slices in your choice of a beautifully decorative pattern covering the pudding completely.
11. sprinkle on a dash of salt.
12. sprinkle on a very tiny dash of pepper.
13. sprinkle on cinnamon to taste.
14. dot with the small pea size pieces of butter.
15. bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 35 minutes.

whole wheat bread, eggs, soymilk, butter, vanilla, ground cinnamon, salt, pepper, powdered sugar, red delicious apple, butter

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/beautiful-bread-pudding-210240 (may not work)