Sweet and Savory Breakfast Bread Pudding

 

This is a yummy treat to have cook overnight for breakfast. The kitchen smells so good in the morning. It is a treat worth waking up to!                                                                                                                            

Prep time: 10 min / Cook time: 6 hours    (Total time:  6 hours 10 min)      Serves: 4-6

                                                                

Ingredients
 •4½ Cups cubed Bread (stale Brioche or French)
 •3 large cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped
      (I like Grannie Smith's)
 •1 tsp. ground cinnamon
 •½ tsp. ground allspice
 •¼ Cup firmly packed light brown sugar or
      (crystallized cane sugar)
 •¼ tsp. salt
 •2 Cup milk or soy milk                                                                   
 •¼ Cup maple syrup

 •12 oz. cooked Andouile sausage
(crumbled)                                     


These next 2 ingredients  that are optional make
 it more like bread pudding or Bananas Foster                                                                           

• 1/2 cup raisins (optional) 
• One mashed or sliced banana (optional)

Instructions:
1.Lightly grease the inside of a 4-quart slow cooker. Press half of the bread cubes into the bottom of the cooker.
 2.In a large mixing bowl, combine the apples, cinnamon, allspice, brown sugar and salt. Add the milk and maple syrup and mix well.
 3.Pour half of the apple mixture over the bread in the slow cooker. Add in the raisins and banana at this time if using Gently press down on the apples to ensure the liquid is absorbed by the bread.
 4.Spread half of the soy sausage over the apples, followed by the remaining bread.

 5.Top the bread with the remaining sausage, followed by the     remaining apple mixture. Press on the apple to ensure the liquid is absorbed.
6.Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.