Chocolate Orange Sourdough Bread Pudding
Thick slices of sourdough soaked in an orange infused custardy sauce. This is comfort food at its best.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 400 g white sourdough bread sliced
- 75 g butter softened
- 500 mls milk
- 2 large eggs
- 60 g light muscovado sugar
- 1.5 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Zest from 1 orange
- 2 slices of orange sliced into triangles
- 80 g dark orange chocolate chopped into small chunks
- 1 tbsp demerara sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 160 C.
- Grease 18x23cm rectangular tin with butter.
- Cut the slices of sourdough in half, leaving the crust on. Generously butter one side of each slice; you can use any leftover butter later. Arrange half of the bread in the base of the dish and layer the remaining half on top.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and orange zest.
- Pour the custard mixture and any remaining melted butter over the bread and leave to soak for 5 minutes.
- Wedge the slices of orange and dark chocolate chunks between the bread, leaving some to scatter on top. Sprinkle over the demarara sugar and bake for 45-50 minutes.
- Allow the bread pudding to cool for 15 minutes before serving.