Fruit Bread Pudding for Christmas

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Ingredients list for Fruit Bread Pudding for Christmas

• 1 cup Mixed fruits canned
• 8-10 White bread slices
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• a few drops Vanilla essence
• 2 cups Milk
• ¼ cup Butter cut into cubes
• 2 tablespoons Apricot jam

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180°C.
2. Break eggs in a bowl. Add castor sugar, vanilla essence and whisk well till nicely mixed. Set aside.
3. Heat milk in a non-stick pan till warm. Add warm milk to egg mixture and whisk well.
4. Strain the egg mixture into another bowl and cool the mixture for ½ an hour.
5. Cut bread slices into medium pieces.
6. Arrange some of the bread pieces in a glass baking dish. Add some of the butter cubes on top and pour some of the egg mixture on top. Press well so that the bread pieces are soaked in the mixture. Add some of the fruits on top.
7. Repeat the order of layering with the remaining bread pieces, butter cubes, egg mixture and fruits. Cover with an aluminium foil.
8. Take a baking tray and fill it with water. Place the baking dish on it and put in the preheated oven and bake for 40-45 minutes.
9. Heat apricot jam in a non-stick pan. Add 1-2 tablespoons water, mix and cook till the jam melts.
10. Remove the pudding from oven and apply the jam glaze on top.
11. Serve warm.