Tres Leches Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce

Mexican bread pudding, or capirotada, is a very special dish that I look forward to every Lenten season. My grandma and mom always made capirotada with cinnamon, piloncillo, cloves, raisins, cheese, and bread. In my recipe, I skip the cheese, and I soak the bread in a tres leches mixture in addition to the traditional cinnamon-infused piloncillo syrup, plus I soak the raisins in bourbon. But the richness doesn’t end there. When the pudding emerges from the