Coconut Bread Pudding (Klappertaart)
An Indonesian coconut bread pudding with Dutch colonial influence, baked with coconut meat, coconut water, and bread.
Ingredients
white bread (torn into bite-sized pieces, about 10 slices)
6 cup
young coconut water with coconut meat
two 17.5 oz cans (about 4⅓ cup)
eggs
4
sugar (reduce if coconut water is sweet)
½ cup
vanilla extract
1 tsp
chopped young coconut meat
1 cup
whole milk powder
1 tsp
unsalted butter (melted)
2 tbsp
raisins (optional)
½ cup
Instructions
1
Preheat the oven
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 2-quart baking dish.
2
Soak the bread
In a large bowl, soak the bread in the coconut water for about 5 minutes. Strain the bread in a sieve until it is no longer sitting in liquid. The coconut meat will stay in the sieve along with the bread. Discard the coconut water.
3
Combine
In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla. Stir in the soaked bread and coconut meat, the chopped young coconut meat, milk powder, and melted butter.
4
Bake
Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle the raisins on top. Bake until the top is golden, 50 to 60 minutes.