hot cross bun bread and butter pudding

The Easter vacation is right here – and meaning sizzling cross bun season has arrived! Should you fancy treating your self to a twist on the standard bun, we’ve obtained simply the factor.

Sink your spoon into our soft-in-the-middle, crunchy-on-top sizzling cross bun bread and butter pudding and revel in a style of Easter now – or at any time of yr!

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Slimming World sizzling cross bun bread and butter pudding

serves 6
prepared in 50 minutes
5 Swips per serving

What you want:

1 cal cooking spray
6 small slices of white bread from a 400g loaf
25g low-fat unfold
40g dried combined fruit
250ml skimmed milk
3 giant eggs
2 stage tbsp sweetener
grated zest of 1 orange
1 tsp combined spice
1 stage tbsp plain flour
plain quark or fat-free pure fromage frais, to serve

What you do:

1. Spray a small, rectangular ovenproof dish with 1 cal cooking spray. Unfold one aspect of the bread slices with the low-fat unfold. Utilizing an 8cm spherical cutter (or an upside-down mug), reduce a big circle in the course of every slice of bread and put aside. Roughly chop all of the leftover bits of bread and scatter them across the ready dish, together with about two-thirds of the dried fruit. Prepare the bread rounds spread-side up on high, evenly spaced aside.

2. Whisk collectively the milk, eggs, sweetener and many of the orange zest and combined spice. Pour the combination over the bread to cowl and put aside for 20 minutes to permit the bread to absorb all of the liquid. (Don’t be tempted to skip the soaking. For a pudding that’s gentle and fluffy on the within and crisp on high, the bread wants time to absorb all of the milk.)

3. Preheat your oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/gasoline 5.

4. Combine the flour with 2 tsp water, put the combination in a piping bag and pipe a skinny cross on high of every bread spherical. (Should you don’t have a piping bag, use a spoon as neatly as you’ll be able to.) Sprinkle over the remaining dried fruit, orange zest and combined spice and bake for 20-25 minutes or till golden. Serve sizzling with the quark or fromage frais.