Bread & Butter Pudding (Step by Step with images)

Here comes this Bread and butter recipe, something Ive long wanted to try!!

Having tried it at a couple of restaurants and popular buffets in Singapore, I was dying to see if I could make it because it taste really delicious and yet it is so so simple!

Just a little history on this pudding if you dont know what is it :
Bread and butter pudding is a traditional dessert popular in British cuisine!
Maybe more familiar british food stuff would be yorkshire pudding/bangers and mash etc.
It is a dessert which I personally think is an inbetween sweet and savoury because looking at the ingredients, there's butter ,eggs,cream, milk and even sugar ! :)
Its wholesome and oh-so-good.
Usually served hot and goes well with a dash of Vanilla sauce or what I prefer is a scoop of Vanilla Ice-cream to go with it! wahla! Perfect! hehe

Its so easy to make and anyone can do it since the ingredients are really just basic ingredients you can just grab from the nearest convenience store and you dont really need any skills to do this :)

So anytime you feel like having some, just go ahead and DO IT! haha

Here's the ingredients to prepare:

Approx 10 slices of white bread (you could use a day or two old bread, it would be even better)
Enough butter to spread
300ML of milk
120ML of liquid whipping Cream
50Gm Castor Sugar
2 tsp of vanilla essence
3 Eggs
Brown sugar (to sprinkle)
Sultanas for sprinkling (optional)

1)Halve all the bread slices into triangles like below (at this time, you can choose to remove the skins or not, in my case, i did not)

2)Now spread them with butter both FRONT & BACK.

3) prepare your baking dish, gotta be deep and wide enough and butter it all over

4)Like what you see below, layer the slices of bread row by row evenly and if you have any thing to add like sultanas/raisins add them after this first layer then stack a 2nd layer on top evenly .make sure theres "2 layers" of these overlaying bread. (if you need more bread, just add more, as it depends on your baking dish size) then topped it with optional sultanas/raisin if any.
Then leave it aside

5)Now pour the milk and liquid whipping cream into a pot and heat it up. (do not let it boil)

6) Now pour the heated milk mixture into a mixing bowl, combine the Sugar, Vanilla essence and eggs and whisk it till its well mixed.

7)when you're done whisking it, slowly pour this mixture into the baking dished with your bread. (It is suppose to soak at least 3/4 of the dish and cover most of your bread)

8) when done pouring, just try to press down the bread so as to ensure it soaks up the mixture, press them gently all around.

9) Lastly, sprinkle the top with some brown sugar and if you want , raisins/sultanas. and leave it aside for about 20mins to set.

10)Now it is ready to be baked at 180*C or hotter depending on your oven and let it slow bake. Stick a tooth pick in to check, it should come out clean when its done and not too soggy and moist! :)

Leave it out after its done to set for about 30mins. It should harden up.

Then cut out a piece served with a Generous scoop of Vanilla Ice-cream :)
(anytime, jut heat it up with a microwave and served hot! )