B&B pudding, no, not Bed and Breakfast..

...but Bread and Butter !

Today we had bread and butter pudding for dessert. (Well, actually I ate it well before dinner but the rest, ate it for dessert). It was my first attempt preparing such a desert. I am not particularly keen on raisins when it comes to dessert but I guess this one is not too bad.

It wasn't one of the spur of the moment kinda thing. Mrs Z is nearly 5 months pregnant and is naseous to the smell of cooking and of course, her kitchen too. And so, being a person who loves to cook myself, I take charge of the kitchen almost every other day. Yes, I love to cook. I am not saying that I enjoy cooking 24/7, but, I enjoy cooking when knowing people are anticipating to eat what I am cooking.

2 days ago, Mrs Z requested bread and butter pudding. And hence the dessert today. And tomorrow, I am to fulfill Z request for a marble cake. Last week it was mee bandung, and last weekend, tauhu sumbat.

Back to b&b pudding. I shouldn't have put brioche for a 3rd layer. The top had gone dry since the custard could only soak up the first two layers.

If you'd like to give it a try yourself, here's a simple recipe for it.

Bread and Butter Pudding
Ingredients
1x tin evaporated milk
50g caster sugar
1 x egg
2 x egg yolks
1 x loaf of brioche (or several sweet potato buns you may find in Carrefour)
handful of raisins (or choc chips..as much as you wish)

Custard preparation
*Whisk egg and yolks together with caster sugar.
*On a pan, heat evaporated milk until it started to simmer. Take it off the heat and slowly whisk the milk gradually into the beaten egg.

Method
*cut thin slices of brioche, buttered and arrange nicely (butter side down) into an oven proof dish to form a layer.
*scatter raisins on this first layer of brioche (alternative: choc chips)
*arrange another layer of brioche, and again, scatter the raisins over the 2nd layer.
*Pour custard mix over the brioche layers carefully as not to overflow. Push the top layer downwards slowly to ensure that custard soak up evenly.
*Place the dish into a bigger roasting pan filled with water, and bake it in the oven at 180 deg C for half an hour or until the custard has set.

..and voila..

I am too lazy to snap the photo of my b&b pudding. It has reduced to less than half of its original content anyway.....

But this is how it should look like



Good luck!