TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: B Sweet Hot Bread Pudding

March 22, 2014 at 7:33 am · Filed under Desserts, Top Pick Of The Week

Cookies & Cream bread pudding from B
Sweet. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE
NIBBLE.

Live near a Super Target? Lucky you, if your Super Target store is one of the many to carry B Sweet bread pudding.

The headline: Delicious bread pudding from freezer to the microwave in minutes.

Launched last month, B Sweet Bread Pudding is melt-in-your-mouth indulgence that’s a cross between bread pudding and a hot soufflé. Bought frozen in 12-ounce containers resembling ice cream pints, they go into the microwave and hot bread pudding emerges.

Chef Barbara Batiste’s B Sweet gained fame on the streets of Los Angeles, where her award-winning food trucks sell a variety of freshly baked sweet treats. The hot bread pudding was named Best Dessert of CitySearch Los Angeles.

There are four flavors:

Apple Pie, tasting very much like hot apple pie

Cookies & Cream, our favorite, with big pieces evocative of Oreos

Fudge Brownie with chocolate drizzle (because fudge brownie isn’t rich enough on its own)

Glazed Donut, outshone by the others, the only flavor we didn’t wolf down

“NOUVELLE” BREAD PUDDING

B Sweet isn’t like Mom’s chunky custard-laden bread pudding. It’s “nouvelle” bread pudding.

The consistency is smooth, like a dense, cakey soufflé. While custard is an ingredient, the eggy custard flavor of conventional bread pudding is replaced by the featured flavors (apple, brownie, chocolate sandwich cookie and glazed donut).

And reading the ingredients label, pound cake seems to have replaced the stale bread.

But however the magic happens, the result is quite noteworthy.

Eat it from container.

Be more civilized, and put it in a bowl.

Top it with ice cream, heavy cream or whipped cream.

If you’re worried about calories: 1/4 container has the same calories as 1/4 container of Haagen-Dazs.