Comfort Food: Bread Pudding with Warm Lemon Sauce

No picture of this one- I completely forgot... but hopefully it will speak for itself.  So yummy and easy!

Bread Pudding
Baguette (day old) broken into pieces
1/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups milk
6 beaten eggs
1 tsp rum extract (or vanilla)

Break baguette into pieces and arrange in 9x13 dish (I used almost 3 small baguettes).  Melt butter in saucepan, stir in sugar and milk into heated.   Stir in beaten eggs and extract and pour mixture over bread.  Bake at 325 for 25-30 minutes or until golden on top and set.

Warm Lemon Sauce

3/4 cup sugar
2 Tbsp cornstarch
1 cup water
3 Tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp grated lemon peel
1 Tbsp butter

Combine sugar and cornstarch in small saucepan.  Stir in water until smooth and bring to boil over medium heat.  Boil for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice, lemon peel and butter, stirring until butter melts.  Serve over pudding.

**this sauce was also fantastic with crepes!