A mouthwatering Festive Stollen Bread Pudding recipe taken from Dairy Diary.
A festive take on the classic comfort food; bread and butter pudding. Filled with the flavours of Christmas including cinnamon, apricots and amaretti biscuits, this is a real treat!
Ingredients
Butter for greasing
Stollen bread 750g (1lb 10oz), cubed
Dried apricots 8, roughly chopped
Ground cinnamon 1 large pinch
Eggs 2 medium
Double cream 300ml (½ pint)
Milk 300ml (½ pint)
Caster sugar 3 tbsp
Amaretti biscuits 6 crushed
Vanilla ice cream or single cream to serve (optional)
Directions
Butter a shallow ovenproof dish
Toss in stollen and apricots and sprinkle over cinnamon
Beat eggs, cream, milk and sugar
Pour over stollen mix, pressing down to soak well
Scatter over amaretti then, if you have time, set aside in a cool place for 1 hour to soak
Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºfan/Gas 4
Put the dish in a roasting tin and pour boiling water around it to come halfway up the sides
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden and slightly risen
Leave to stand for 10 minutes before serving with ice cream or cream, if liked.