Make your bread and butter pudding irresistible and a whole lot easier by using an Italian Colomba or Panettone if you have one on hand from Christmas!

You can’t go wrong using one of these traditional Italian sweet bread celebration favourites.

We’ve used a heavily spiced and fruited one to help make this classic dessert super simple!

Using a sweetened fruit-and-nut bread base ups the flavour tenfold without needing a whole bunch of ingredients on hand.

Okay, let’s get down to business!

Along with a roughly 30cm baking dish, you will need…

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Ingredients

1 large, fruity colomba or panettone – chocolate will work too – cut into roughly 8cm cubes
300ml cream
250ml milk
6 eggs, lightly whisked
200g butter, cut into very small cubes
3 tbsp raw sugar
1 punnet of blackberries

Method

Preheat oven to 160 degrees.

Whisk the cream, milk, and eggs together in a large bowl, then add half of the butter.

Add the sweet bread cubes and gently stir them through the mixture.

Pour into the baking dish, sprinkle with sugar, dot with butter, and scatter over the berries.

Bake for 40 minutes.

Serve hot with vanilla ice cream or custard!