Recipe: Panettone bread and butter pudding

Recipe: Panettone bread and butter pudding

20m prep | 40m cook

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Rarely are our kitchens as laden with leftovers than at Christmas, epicurean spreads yielding fridges full of ham, plastic containers packed with spuds and half-eaten panettone taking up space on the bench.

For the inventive, these festive leftovers are an opportunity for even more deliciousness, whether it's this magnificent Christmas banh mi, a gruyere and dried mushroom tart spiked with glazed ham, or this spectacular panettone bread and butter pudding.

We've pulled together this recipe using a whole panettone, but it can be scaled down to however much of this delicate, fruit-studded Italian sweet bread you have left after the big day.

Served with a few extra spoonfuls of our three orange marmalade and a scoop of quality vanilla ice cream, this is a celebratory dish that will quickly be elevated from leftovers to main event.

Ingredients (Serves 8-10)

  • 1 whole panettone, approx. 800g
  • Butter, approx 100g, softened enough to spread
  • 5 eggs
  • 370mL cream
  • 570mL whole milk
  • 2.5 tsp vanilla extract
  • 5 tbsp caster sugar
  • 3 tbsp orange marmalade
  • Icing sugar or snow sugar
  • Vanilla ice cream to serve

Preheat oven to 150C, and grease an oven-proof dish with butter.

Use a serrated knife to cut the panettone into 1cm thick slices, and butter each slice well on one side. Arrange the slices like overlapping tiles - butter side up - in the dish.

Combine the eggs, cream, milk, vanilla and caster sugar well, then pour slowly over the panettone slices. Add a little more as needed once the cake has absorbed some of the custard mixture.

Place the dish into a baking tray, and fill the tray with hot water until it reaches half way up the outside of the dish. Dot the surface of the pudding with marmalade, then bake for 40 minutes or until just-set.

Remove the dish from the water-filled baking tray, rest for five minutes, then dust with icing or snow sugar and serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

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