Italian Bread Pudding Recipe

Italian Bread Pudding Recipe Submitted by jannie

This is a really easy to make Italian twist on the bread pudding.

Ingredients for Italian Bread Pudding:

• 15g/½ oz/1 tbsp butter
• 2 small eating apples,peeled,cored and sliced into rings
• 75g/2 ¾ oz granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp white wine
• 100g/3 ½ oz bread/sliced crusts removed(slightly stale french baguette is ideal)
• 300ml/½ pint/1 ¼ cups single cream
• 2 eggs, beaten
• pared rind of 1 orange cut into matchsticks
• variations include dried fruit  sultanas or apricots or cherries or dates

Method for Italian Bread Pudding:

1. Lightly grease a 1.2 litre/2 pint deep ovenproof dish with the butter
2. Arrange the apple rings in the base of the dish, sprinkle half the sugar over the apples, at this point you can add dried fruit.
3. Pour the wine over the fruit, add the slices of bread, pushing them down with your hands to flatten them slightly.
4. Mix the cream with the eggs, the remaining sugar and the orange rind and pour the mixture over the bread, leave to soak for 30 mins.
5. Bake the pudding in a preheated oven, at 180 c/350 f/gas mark 4, for 25 mins until golden brown and set
6. Serve warm with cream. For a skinny option you can use creme fraiche.