Hot cross bread & lemon pudding

Hot cross bread & lemon pudding

Use up your leftover fruit buns in this sumptuous spin on traditional bread and butter pudding - a great spring bake

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 40 mins

plus standing

Method

  1. Butter a 1-litre baking dish that will quite snugly fit the buns. Cut each bun into 3 slices, and sandwich back together with a generous spreading of curd. Arrange buns in the dish.
  2. Whisk egg, cream, milk and remaining curd, then sieve into a jug with the vanilla and 3 tbsp of the sugar. Pour over the buns and stand at room temperature for 30 mins for the custard to soak in.
  3. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/ gas 3. Scatter the remaining sugar and lemon zest over the pudding. Bake for 30-40 mins until the top is golden and the custard gently set. Stand for 5 mins, then serve with cream or vanilla ice cream, if you like.

PER SERVING

676 kcalories, protein 10g, carbohydrate 74g, fat 38 g, saturated fat 20g, fibre 1g, sugar 49g, salt 0.4 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2012.

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  • 20 March 2012

    Hollybelle commented on this recipe

    Couldn't wait to try this recipe as it sounded delicious! What a disaster and disappointment it was in reality. It was like eating spicy bun with a lemon flavoured lighty scrambled egg. Ugh!!!

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  • 26 March 2012

    Elle rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    A really nice take on bread and butter pudding, used up the last of my cranberry & apple hot cross buns and the other half loved it too :) would recommend if you're bored of bog standard bread and butter puddings as the hint of lemon curd is a lovely addition.

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  • 04 April 2012

    Caroline Wilkie commented on this recipe

    Did this for a dinner party and it went down a treat!! So easy and so tasty!!

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  • 06 April 2012

    sues book079 commented on this recipe

    try putting butter and jam in the hot cross buns first Mmmmmm lovely.

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  • 06 April 2012

    stoneage commented on this recipe

    originally, I made hot-cross buns and found they were slightly heavy. This maybe due to the proving and kneading time. however, they did prove successful in making nigel Slaters bread and butter hot cross pud!

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  • 08 April 2012

    Grace commented on this recipe

    Easy and interesting but too sweet for our taste.

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  • 08 April 2012

    wennap rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Really really tasty dessert. We didn't add the lemon curd into the custard but used very lemony home made hairy bikers lemon curd in the buns. AMAZING!!! Will definitely be doing it again. Easy to double to feed a crowd. Would highly recommend to a friend. Now part of the Easter family traditions.

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  • 09 April 2012

    Annies Food rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    I made this yesterday and, although it was tasty, I was very disappointed with the split custard looking like scrambled eggs, which must have been due to the addition of lemon curd. If I make it again I shall only use the lemon curd for sandwiching the hot cross buns.

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  • 09 April 2012

    Mckforester commented on this recipe

    Very successful. Adjusted the recipe for 6 buns adding an extra egg and increasing the cream & milk to 300 g's but reduced thhe lemon curd to 110 g's but added lemoncello to the middle layer of each bun before pooring over the custard mix. Fantastic. Definately no scrambleed egg issues as gently warmed the milk, sugar and vinila esence before slowly adding to the whisked eggs stirring continuously. After pooring over the buns and leaving to soak in, put dish in a pan of water and then into oven to ensure even bake.

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  • 09 April 2012

    Samig commented on this recipe

    Very nice, only used a quarter of the curd inside the buns, none in the custard.left theme to soak for longer and forked the buns to soak up all the liquid.like bread n butter pud and egg custard in one.man has requested again !!

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  • 09 April 2012

    Laura rated this recipe

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  • 13 April 2012

    karen rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Absolutely delicious, went down a treat with the family. I didn't have any lemon curd so I substituted black cherry pie filling.

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  • 20 April 2012

    Mum's recipe commented on this recipe

    Great pudding loved by all family and relations

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  • 25 April 2012

    MaryHelen rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    AMAZING!! I didn't have a square dish so popped 2 extra buns in to my rectangular one and did 1.5 times the recipe,and it worked perfectly! I decided to put lemon curd on just one layer of the buns and butter on the other so it wasn't a bit 'too' lemony, and it created the perfect flavour. I'd definitely recomend this to anyone - it's the perfect way to create the flavours of a 'real' Bread & Butter pudding but in a far easier way!

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  • 30 April 2012

    Sarah rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    We thought this was rather nice - but sickly and very sweet (even though I only used half the sugar and half the lemon curd!) Will probably try it again, but try and tweak it to be less sweet!! Did like the lemon, but definitely don't need sugar on top as hot cross buns already glazed...

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  • 06 January 2013

    Hilary commented on this recipe

    Absolutely delicious. Will definitely make again.

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  • 09 March 2013

    gerry2433 rated this recipe

    5 stars

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    02 April 2013

    Abi rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Lovely, used up homemade Hot X Buns but didn't leave to cook for quite long enough so was a little runny in the middle, but a good pud! Partner had seconds - a v.good sign!!

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  • 03 April 2013

    Susan White rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made this on Sunday OMG it was amazing! I dont like bread and butter pudding, & cant say i really like hot cross buns but thought i would make it for my parents. I liked the look and smell of it so had some, and then went back for seconds! I think the 'tesco finest' lemon curd made it that little bit nicer. everyone loved it. I will deffinately be making this again!!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 40 mins

plus standing

Ingredients

  • knob of butter , for the dish
  • 4 stale hot cross buns
  • 200g lemon curd
  • 2 large eggs
  • 200ml double cream
  • 200ml milk
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 tbsp caster sugar
  • little lemon zest
  • cream or vanilla ice cream , to serve (optional)
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PER SERVING

676 kcalories, protein 10g, carbohydrate 74g, fat 38 g, saturated fat 20g, fibre 1g, sugar 49g, salt 0.4 g

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