I love Macaroons

So I got up this morning before my hubby. Sunday morning, the only morning to sleep in in a looooooong time, and I'm up at 6:00 am. Seriously... So I make some amaretto coffee, check my farm (one of my clients needed a neighbor, Cindy, and now she's way back in the dust)and realize that I'm pretty darned hungry. I celebrated my Green Bay's Tia'Spa expansion with hubby last night. Had some Caberaz, my own decanted blend of Cabernet and Shiraz, and my killer guacamole, but forgot to have dinner.

Getting back to hungry! Hmmm, what should I make? It's one of those mornings; nothing that I see looks good. So I want to just "make something up." Great ideas seem to come to me when I wake up in the middle of the night or when I'm hungry and can't find anything I want to eat!

I scrounged around the cupboards and the only thing I saw that tripped my trigger was coconut. It mad me think of macaroons. But what, at 6:30 am, can you make with coconut, to eat for breakfast?

But of course...Macaroon Bread Pudding!

I got to mixing up the ingredients as follows

Place into a small oven-safe bowl
4 slices of whole wheat bread torn into small chunks
1/2 cup of sweetened coconut

Place into a microwave-safe bowl
2 cups of milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter
Microwave the following until the butter is melted stirring often

Beat together
2 jumbo or 3 medium eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract

Pour the egg mixture into the milk mixture, stir well, then pour over the bread and coconut.

I popped the dish in the toaster oven on convection at 350 for 30 minutes (yes the toaster oven.) The smell of almonds and coconut filled the entire Inn, waking up my husband.

I decided to make a Rum glaze and put into my Pampered Chef sauce pan
1/4 Cup Sailor Jerry spiced rum
1 1/2 teaspoon corn starch
2 Tablespoons butter
Bring to a boil, stir until thickened and clear then pour over the bread pudding.

I figured this recipe would serve 4 but it was so good it only served two. We sure enjoyed it and I hope you do too!! I can hardly wait to serve it to the guests at the Belle Isle Inn!