Bread and butter pudding with panettone

Name: Bread and butter pudding with panettone
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons caster sugar; 3 eggs; 1 vanilla pod, split lengthways; 500 ml (16 fl oz) milk; 2 tablespoons rum, brandy or amaretto; 250 g (8 oz) panettone; 3 tablespoons sultanas; 1 tablespoon apricot jam, warmed; icing sugar, to dust

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 10

Appears in

Desserts

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1998

About

When the yearning strikes for a homely dessert, bread and butter pudding is hard to beat. For special occasions, this humble and economical dish can be transformed into something really marvellous with glacé fruits, a dash of rum, some brioche or, as in this case, Italian panettone.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons sultanas
2 tablespoons rum, brandy or amaretto

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to warm 160°C (315°F/Gas 2-3). Place the sultanas in a 23 cm (9 inch) oval pie dish and pour the alcohol over the top.
Cut the panettone to make two or three round slices about 1 cm (½ inch) thick, then remove the crust. Cut each slice