Purple peach and bread pudding

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This Peach and Bread Pudding is a warm, spiced twist on a classic dessert that takes bread pudding to the next level. Bringing peach and bread together in the most delicious way—simple to make, big on flavour, and a clever way to cut food waste.

8
25 Minutes

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups fresh or cooked peaches – if you live in the South Island and experience a glut of purple peaches this recipe is the perfect way of using some up!
  • 1 x 395g can sweetened condensed milk or if you like a less sweet dessert use a cup of your favourite milk sweetened with 2 tablespoons maple syrup or brown sugar.
  • 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup hot water (add ¼ cup more if using the condensed milk instead of milk)
  • ¼ cup butter, melted
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 cups bread, buns, hot cross buns etc. torn into small pieces

Caramel Sauce

  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup cream

Method

Pudding

  1. Preheat the oven to 165C and grease a 22x33cm baking dish.
  2. Chop peaches and place in a large bowl.
  3. Combine milk (or condensed milk) and beaten eggs in a separate bowl then add to the peaches and mix well. Stir in the hot water, melted butter, cinnamon, and vanilla. Fold in the bread/buns until bread is completely moistened. Transfer mixture to the prepared baking dish.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for approx 1 hour, until a knife inserted into the centre of pudding comes out clean.
  5. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving.

Caramel sauce

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan on the stove, add in the sugar and stir till smooth.
  2. Slowly add in the cream until the mixture is smooth.
  3. Bring to the boil stirring continuously and then remove from heat.
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