Hot cross bread & lemon pudding
By Sarah Cook
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 40 mins Plus standingSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4Use up your leftover fruit buns in this sumptuous spin on traditional bread and butter pudding - a great spring bake
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 676
- protein
- 10g
- carbs
- 74g
- fat
- 38g
- saturates
- 20g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 49g
- salt
- 0.4g
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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Method
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2012
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
This was very tasty, but next time I will cut the hot cross buns into pieces after I have put lemon curd in the middle maybe into 4 pieces. also I did not find there was enough lemony custard so will be doubling the amount or maybe using all the 300ml carton of double cream I bought with 300ml of milk.
Very yummy, though and found it served more than 4 more like 6! Also my hot cross buns floated and despite leaving for the 30 mins specified they had to be pushed down into the custard. Great desert for kids and adults alike especially at Easter with all the hot cross buns on special offer!
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!!
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!
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.
