Bread & Butter Pudding (Serves 4)
Ingredients
4 croissants20ml castor sugar. 5ml ground cinnamon, to garnish60ml mascarpone, to serve. Apples4 Golden Delicious apples,peeled and cut into eighths. 80g butter. 120g castor sugar. 20ml lemon juice. Crème anglaise. 560ml cream1 vanilla pod, split3 egg yolks. 1 whole egg. 75g castor sugar
METHOD
To bake the apples, preheat the oven to 200°C.
Place apple pieces in an ovenproof dish and add the butter, sugar and lemon juice.
Bake for 15 minutes, turning each piece after 8 minutes.
Remove from the oven and set aside until ready to use.
Reduce the oven temperature to 180°C.Meanwhile, make the crème anglaise. In a medium saucepan, bring the cream and vanilla pod just to the boil.
In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks, whole egg and sugar together.
Slowly pour the hot cream over the eggs, whisking continuously, and leave to cool in the bowl.
To assemble the pudding, cut the croissants in half and then into 8 fingers.
Layer the apples and croissants in an ovenproof bowl or dish, pour the crème anglaise over, sprinkle with castor sugar and bake for 15 minutes.
AUTHOR: Natasha Sideris
*Recipe by Natasha Sideris found in The Great South African Cookbook by Quivertree Publications.
