bourbon bread pudding with bourbon sauce

• Ingredients:
  8 large eggs
  2 cups packed brown sugar
  1.5 tsp cinnamon
  1 tbsp vanilla extract
  1/4 cup bourbon
  2 cups heavy cream
  2 cups milk
  8.5 cups cubed french bread (stale, or at least day old french bread)
  Sauce:
  2 cups heavy cream
  1 tbsp vanilla extract
  8 tbsp sugar
  1 tbsp cornstarch
  2 tbsp bourbon
  
  Directions:
  Preheat oven to 350 and butter a 11x13 baking pan
  Whisk eggs, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and bourbon together in a large bowl
  Add heavy cream and milk and mix well
  Cut up the bread in cubes and place it in the egg mixture
  Allow it to sit for at least 15 minutes to absorb the liquid
  Pour mixture into the baking dish
  Cook for about 55 minutes, until set in the middle
  Sauce:
  Heat the cream, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan on high heat
  Whisk for 3 minutes
  Dissolve the cornstarch with the bourbon
  Whisk in bourbon mixture
  Cook until thickened
  Drizzle on top of cut slices of bread pudding