Banana bread & butter pudding

Banana bread & butter pudding

A microwave pud that will have the family thinking you've been cooking for hours

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Method

  1. Toast the bread, spread with butter and cut each slice into 6 equal pieces. Arrange, butter side up, with the banana in a microwavable dish (approx 23cm wide by 5cm deep).
  2. Beat together the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and milk in a jug. In a small bowl, add the cornflour with a little of the milk, mix until smooth, then stir into the jug. Pour over the bread and banana, then sprinkle with the extra sugar. Bake, uncovered, in the microwave on High for 8-10 mins. Stand for 5 mins before serving.
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Chocolate and orange flavour

Toast 4 thick slices bread, spread with 50g butter and 4 tbsp marmalade. Cut each slice into 6 equal pieces and arrange the bread, butter side up, with 85g roughly chopped dark chocolate and 50g chopped mixed peel in a microwavable dish (23cm wide by 5cm deep). Make the custard, as previous recipe, omitting the cinnamon, then continue with the rest of the recipe. Serve with a sprinkling of icing sugar and ice cream.

Make it in the oven

If you don't have a microwave, assemble the dish without toasting the bread beforehand. Bake at 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 for 30-40 mins until the egg mixture has set and the bread has turned golden and crisp.

Per serving

412 kcalories, protein 10g, carbohydrate 64g, fat 15 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 1g, sugar 38g, salt 0.99 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2006.

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  • 27 July 2010

    Marcella rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very tasty and easy to make. I added Nuttelle choc spread onto bread and butter which went very well with bananas! Also used vanilla essence and cooked in oven.

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  • 03 October 2010

    Belkey rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I made the chocolate orange version in the oven, very good comfort food, served with custard!

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  • 07 October 2010

    Argosdiva rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Big hit in our house. Very simple to make but lovely. I used a deep dish so need to give it an extra 4 mins in the Microwave but that was fine. Wonder if it would work with cooking apples?

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    14 October 2010

    jzn commented on this recipe

    I prepared this well in advance to let the milk soak into the bread, put it in the oven for 30 mins and it was divine! I didn't have any cornflour so just left it out and it was fine. I too only used 50g of sugar which was sweet enough. My family loved it, the children requested I make this every night! It's a good recipe to have as it's so quick and easy to prepare and I always seem to have plenty of bread which is going stale and bananas which are going soft, so think this will be a regular pudding in our house! It's not elegant to look at but very tasty, try it!

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  • 06 November 2010

    estorial7 commented on this recipe

    I made this for my family last night it was really tasty i served it hot with craem

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  • 19 November 2010

    REDKELLY commented on this recipe

    Fast and delicious. Baked it, and my husband also loved it.

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  • 14 December 2010

    gabba92 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    really easy, used teacakes instead... was nice with the extra raisins and sweeter bread. Think it makes a lil bit too much milky mixture, ended up throwing about 1/4 of it away. went down incredibly well though, defs going to do it again.

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  • 23 December 2010

    femmes commented on this recipe

    Do you toast the bread both sides ?

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  • 24 January 2011

    Clare commented on this recipe

    We prefer to have some of the banana inside the pudding as well as on top, so I make the bread, butter and banana into little sandwiches, then pour the eggy mixture over.

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  • Binder photo loz

    11 February 2011

    loz rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    This was good- a nice change to normalbread and butter pudding. I used hot cross buns, and mixed in two bananas as suggested and cooked it in the oven. i cut out small circles of the pudding and served as part of a trio of desserts. Went down very well!

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  • 14 February 2011

    Geneviva♥ rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Extremely delicious recipe thats also perfect for beginners! I used some golden syrup and nutella sauce for my attemp, came out even better than I expected :)

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  • 22 March 2011

    mrshwc rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Easy and delicious! I opted to put in in the oven so the bread would get nice and crusty - microwave might have worked, but I think the toast from the oven was probably nicer. I used two medium bananas and will definitely make this again.

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  • 09 October 2011

    joeytee rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I just made this and it was absolutely lovely! I added white chocolate buttons to it and they worked really well.

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  • 20 February 2012

    StaciiMarie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    My husband loved this so much he's demanded I make it every Friday. :D Lovely recipe!

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  • 23 April 2012

    Mark rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    This really was quite disgusting. No one in the family liked it and I like to think I am easily pleased!!!

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  • 15 September 2012

    Lesley rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made this yesterday and it�s delicious! It quick, easy to make and isn't too sweet. I cooked mine in the oven for 40mins and it came out looking lovely and golden and smelt fantastic with the cinnamon. Evn my husband who isn't keen on bread ad butter pudding loved it. This recipe is a keeper and will make again.

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  • 05 November 2012

    westy rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Maybe i'm not a bread and butter pudding fan but I wasn't overly keen on this recipe, whilest eating it I could only think of it as soggy bread and not as a pudding so this put me off big time. The flavours were OK but nothing special and definatley not creamy custardy as I was expecting, would have much preferred to use up my ripe bananas on a banana loaf .

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  • 04 February 2013

    Emma rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I have made this quiet a few times now. Quick and easy in the microwave but can be a little runny so just give it a minute or two more. Last time had it prepared and popped into oven as sat down for dinner so was ready in time. Worked really well in oven giving it a crispier topping. I've always done chocolate and banana, a mixture of white and plain chocolate works well. Reheated leftovers the next day taste great still.

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  • 29 April 2013

    HannahLouise rated this recipe

    4 stars

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  • 29 April 2013

    HannahLouise commented on this recipe

    Made it with just chocolate as I realized halfway though we didn't have any marmalade! Still delicious and would definitely make again!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

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Ingredients

  • 4 thick slices white bread
  • 50g butter , softened
  • 1 large banana , peeled and sliced
  • 2 eggs
  • 85g soft, light brown sugar , plus 1 tbsp extra
  • large pinch cinnamon
  • 450ml milk
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
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Per serving

412 kcalories, protein 10g, carbohydrate 64g, fat 15 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 1g, sugar 38g, salt 0.99 g

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