3 baked apples with cranberry bread pudding Recipes

qts. cubed (1/2-in.) brioche or seedless challah (about 12 oz.), pink lady or golden delicious apples (6 lbs. total), or some of each, light brown sugar, dark molasses, butter, melted and cooled, eggs, half-and-half, ground ginger, vanilla extract, nutmeg, coarsely chopped pecans, cranberries, cut in half, vanilla ice cream

peeled and sliced baking apples, lemon juice, eggs, sugar, vanilla, freshly grated nutmeg, cinnamon, butter, melted, half-and-half, brandy, cranberries, pecans, stale plain croissants or 5 cups brioche bread, cut into cubes, half-and-half, vanilla bean , split lengthwise, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla