Mae's Bread and Butter Pudding. An old-fashioned English bread and butter pudding that goes easy on the wallet. Day-old bread works best in this recipe. Bread-and-butter pudding is a traditional type of British bread pudding made of buttered bread, raisins, and egg custard.
The bread can sit in the egg mixture for ten minutes or a few hours. Long soak times will allow the egg mixture to penetrate deep into the bread. Older bread will work a lot better than fresh as it will absorb the egg mixture a lot easier and faster. You can have Mae's Bread and Butter Pudding using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Mae's Bread and Butter Pudding
- It's 7 slices of thick sliced white bread, crusts removed.
- You need of butter for spreading.
- It's 100 g of dark chocolate - we used bournville dark orange chocolate to compliment the orange zest.
- It's of zest 1 orange (optional).
- You need 3 of large eggs and 1 extra large egg yolk.
- It's 50 g of caster sugar.
- Prepare 120 ml of double cream.
- Prepare 1 of sp vanilla extract.
- You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- It's 300 ml of milk - we used whole for a creamy custard but you could use semi.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of light brown soft sugar.
You can add even more flavor to this easy bread and butter pudding by using jams or marmalade. A bread and butter pudding is a classic British dessert that's big on taste yet so easy to make. It's even more delicious served with custard or ice cream. Slightly stale bread works a bit better because it doesn't soak through instantly and turn into mush.
Mae's Bread and Butter Pudding step by step
- First, cut the crusts off the bread (save for breadcrumbs and freeze). Cut the slices in half (into triangles).
- Butter the bread on one side.
- FInely chop the chocolate into small chunks.
- Grease a baking dish with a little butter and start to layer the bread. After the first layer, sprinkle over half of the chocolate chunks..
- Layer the rest of the bread on top and sprinkle with the remaining the chocolate chunks.
- In a large jug, add the eggs and egg yolk, cream, sugar, vanilla, orange zest and cinnamon. Whisk with a fork or hand whisk until gently combined.
- Now add the milk and whisk again.
- Pour over the bread, making sure that all of it is covered..
- Leave the mixture to soak into the bread for 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle the brown sugar over the top evenly..
- Cook in a preheated oven on 180˚ c (160˚c fan oven) for 30 minutes..
- Remove from the oven and serve with icecream or a litle cream..
Everybody loves a good bread and butter pudding. There's lots of ways of making bread and butter pudding. The most basic pudding is quite simple to make. A deluxe bread and butter pudding takes a little bit of extra time and effort, but the results are well-worth it. Whichever pudding you end up making, you are bound to end up with a crowd-pleaser.