Dessert Recipes-Banana & Baileys Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredients : 

Unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing, softened	75 g
Good-quality white bread	7 to 8 slices
Golden caster sugar, plus 1 heaped tablespoon for sprinkling	100 g
Vanilla pod, halved lengthways and seeds scraped out	1
Large free-range eggs	4
Double cream	600 ml
Semi-skimmed milk	600 ml
Ripe bananas	4
Pecan nuts	75 g
Bailey’s Irish cream	100 ml
Dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)	100 g

Directions :

• Preheat your oven to 180°C or gas 4.
• Lightly butter the white bread on one side and then cut each bread piece into half diagonally.
• Whisk the eggs, sugar and vanilla seeds together into one large bowl and combine them combined
• Then pour the cream and milk.
• Continue whisking process until smooth.
• Peel and slice the bananas roughly
•  Then bash up the pecans and the chocolate, if you use.
• Take a  baking dish of roughly 25cm x 30cm and rub it with little butter
• Then layer up the white buttered bread (placing butter side up), bananas, pecans and chocolate, finish the process with a final layer of white buttered bread (again placing butter side up).
• Drizzle over the Bailey’s Irish cream and custard mixture on top of it
•  Then leave it to stand for around 20 minutes, or until the white bread starts to soak up the mixture.

• Bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until set near the edges but still soft in the middle.
• Remove it from the oven and allow it to cool
• Sprinkle over the caster sugar and blast it with a blowtorch so that a caramelized layer forms on the top.
• This Dessert recipes is Delicious when served with vanilla ice cream.