Healthy Apple-Walnut Bread Pudding

Bread pudding - pre-milk/egg mixture

This is definitely a healthy bread pudding. But it's so tasty! Especially with whipped cream. I had it for dessert and then breakfast the next day. I made several modifications, mostly because I didn't have ingredients, but I also omitted the margarine and reduced the sugar significantly. It still tasted plenty sweet to me.  
Recipe adapted from wwwfitsugarcom

Ingredients
4 cups whole-wheat bread, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
2 tablespoons brown sugar (or some kind of sweetener - what student has agave nectar???)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg (I omitted this because I usually don't like nutmeg)
1/2 cup raisins (optional; didn't have)
2 Granny Smith apples, thinly sliced (I only had 1 Granny Smith, so the 2nd apple was Fuji)
1 cup egg whites
1 cup milk (I used rice milk)
1/2 cup water
1.5 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup bourbon or brandy (optional; didn't have)
2.5 tablespoons light margarine, melted (I omitted this)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (nope, didn't have)
plain nonfat yogurt or whipped cream for topping

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Spray a 2 quart Pyrex (about a 8x8 baking pan) with nonstick spray and spread half the bread cubes over the bottom
3. Mix the cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle about half over the bread in dish. Alternate layers of apple slices and raisins with sprinklings of spice mixture until all used up. Arrange remaining bread cubes over apples.
4. Combine egg whites, milk, water, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon. Mix well and pour over bread, moistening all bread on top.
5. Cover dish with lid and cook in oven for 5 minutes. Then lower heat to 250 degrees and bake for 1 hour 45 minutes.
6. While pudding is baking, mix margarine (again, didn't use), brown sugar, and walnuts.
7. At end of baking time, remove pudding from oven and set oven to 400 degrees. Sprinkle sugar mixture evenly over top of pudding and return to middle rack of oven for 5 minutes or sugar glaze is browned and crusted.  Note: for this, I just sprinkled on a fine layer of brown sugar on top of the bread and popped it in the oven for a few minutes until the sugar had melted. Don't let it burn!
8. Serve with dollop of yogurt and/or whipped cream and enjoy!

Bread pudding - post egg/milk mixture. It was so good I forgot to take a picture of the final product!