Apple Bread Pudding

• 1 tablespoon butter, for baking dish
• 2 baking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
• 13 cup sugar (you may want more or less depending on the apples being used.) or 13 cup Splenda sugar substitute (you may want more or less depending on the apples being used.)
• 2 tablespoons white wine or 2 tablespoons apple juice
• 2 cups bread (slightly stale baguette is ideal)
• 1 12 cups light cream (fat free half & half works great if using milk add a little butter.)
• 2 eggs, beaten
• orange zest or lemon zest

1. Variation; try adding some dried fruit, such as apricots, cherries or dates to the pudding with the apples.
2. Butter a 5-cup ovenproof dish with butter.
3. Place apples in bottom of dish, then sprinkle half of the sugar over them.
4. Pour wine or apple juice over the apples.
5. Add the bread slices, pushing down with your hands to flatten them slightly.
6. Mix the cream with eggs, the remaining sugar, and pour over the bread.
7. Add Zest to the top, over bread and egg mixture.
8. Set aside and to soak for a minimum of 30 minutes.
9. Bake in Preheated 350-degree oven for about 25 minutes, until golden and set (inserted knife comes out clean).

butter, baking apples, sugar, white wine, bread, light cream, eggs, orange zest

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/apple-bread-pudding-57410 (may not work)