Bread and butter pudding

Ingredients: 6 dried apricots, 1 handful of raisins, 3 tbsp Marsala, 1 egg, 2 tbsp custard powder, 1 tbsp brown sugar, 350 ml skimmed milk, 4 tbsp low fat creme fraiche, 4 slices of bread, apricot spread, butter, 1 tsp vanilla essence.

Put the dried apricots and raisins in a bowl. Add the Marsala and let them soak.


Mix the egg, sugar and custard powder in a bowl. Add the vanilla essence.



Heat up the milk until it starts boiling. Add it to the egg mixture.


Whisk well and let it cool down and rest for 15 min.


When the custard is cooled, add the creme fraiche.


Spread butter on the bread slices and cut them into triangles. Spread the apricot jam on top.


Butter an oven-proof dish. Start Assembling the bread on the bottom, with the apricot jam side up.
Sprinkle some raisins and apricots.


Another layer of bread and fruits. Also pour the Marsala the fruits soaked in. Add half of the custard and let it soak in for 10 -15 min.
Preheat the oven at 180° C.


Pour the rest of the custard and bake in the oven until golden - 20 25 min.