Recipe: Golden Nugget Buffet Bread Pudding for Lynn

Note to Lynn: This recipe is given out free at the Buffet entrance at the Golden Nugget!

Golden Nugget Bread Pudding
Recipe by: Golden Nugget's Buffet, Las Vegas, NV
Source: Carol Bland of Banning asked her waiter at the hotel for the recipe and he gave her this recipe. Pat Thomson of San Jacinto requested this recipe about five years ago and received a personal note of thanks from the executive chef of the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas along with the bread pudding recipe.
Servings: 12

16 ounces half and half
8 ounces whipping cream
8 eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
4 1/2 white bread slices
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons raisins

In a bowl mix together well the half-and-half, cream, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Arrange bread slices on bottom of a 10-by-12-inch baking dish. Pour egg/cream mixture over bread. Mix cinnamon with sugar and sprinkle over bread. Spread raisins over top. Cover with foil and bake in a water bath in 400-degree oven for 75 to 90 minutes.