BAILEY’S BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING
Time taken: An hour and a half
Ingredients: A bar of chocolate, 50g butter, 4 pain au chocolat,
8 eggs, 175g caster sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, 300ml milk, 150ml
cream and 150ml Baileys (Plus, extra for you to drink!)
Hi Readers,
IT’S THE END OF EXAMS!!!
This blog post marks the end of an extremely shitty month or
so for student’s everywhere! I know we had Christmas and we’ve had snow, and
there have been lovely moments, but for a lot of young people there life has
BEEN revision for so long now.
For a big bunch of my friends... Tiddy, Ville, Woody, The
Bittmeister… today, the last day of exams, brings with it the end of all their
hard work. At last. They’ve been such superstars!
WELL DONE EVERYBODY. You’re all heroes!
And tonight, all these heroes can drinkkkkkkkk. And me too!
I’m out tonight to celebrate the end of other people’s exams, which is a good
enough excuse for me! Tonight, we’re out on Newcastle! And I’m really looking
forward to a drink. Like, a lot. Having only drunk once so far this year, for
Woody’s birthday, it could all end in disaster. But c’est la vie!
Drinkkkkkkkkk.
Literally, all the cocktails!
Which reminded me earlier, of a very wonderful recipe that
me and my Mother Bear concocted while I was home over Christmas break! One I’m
here to share with you today. This recipe is puddinggggggg with added
drinkkkkkkkkk. Me and my Mother Bear agree: the best idea ever!
To alcoholic desserts, we say YES
So, the Mother Bear and myself, we pieced this recipe
together based upon one that we found over Christmas on the Bailey’s official
website. So, I kid you not, it has a full blown Irish seal of approval. This recipe
makes kind of 4 mammoth portions or 6 regular ones (we went mammoth, of
course). If you want to take a look at the original recipe, click here.
This was the image that we were aiming towards…
Without further ado, ladies and gentleman, here is how to
bring Baileys Bread & Butter Pudding into your life, in just ten easy steps…
1.
Heat your oven to 160°C and grease a baking dish
with the butter.
2.
Slice your pain au chocolat into slices that are
about 3cm think (get your ruler out!).
3.
Arrange you sliced pain au chocolat evenly in
two rows in your dish, side by side so that they fit snugly.
4.
Crack your eggs so that the whites go into one
bowl and the yolks go into another.
ChefBeHere Top Tip: The egg whites aren’t needed in this
recipe but don’t throw them away! You can use them for omelettes maybe or to
make meringues. Stick em in the fridge and give it some thought.
5.
Make a custard by whisking the egg yolks and
sugar together until they’ve combined.
6.
Place your Baileys, milk, vanilla extract and
cream in a saucepan, bring to a simmer and then add your egg mixture to the pan,
stirring all the time.
7.
Keep stirring over a low heat for 5 minutes,
then pour the warm custard into your baking dish, pressing the pain au chocolat
down so it absorbs the liquid.
8.
Leave to stand for 30 minutes. Eat your main
course in this time!
9.
When you’ve eaten, place the baking dish in the
oven to cook for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, break up your chocolate and melt it in
a bowl over hot water
ChefBeHere Top Tip: The Baileys website advocates using dark
chocolate. Me and the Mother Bear didn’t have any when we were making this so
we made do with milk chocolate instead, but I can imagine dark chocolate would
have been very tasty. Maybe, get some if you can
10.
Remove your pudding from the oven and leave to
stand 10 minutes, then generously drizzle the pudding with the melted
chocolate. Serve it up!
And you should be tucking into something like this…
What do you think? Isn’t this a brilliant use of Baileys??
Like, I could have lived the rest of my life just drinking Baileys straight, or
in Toblerone cocktails, and that would have been a pretty amazing life. But now
that I know it can be used in desserts… well. What can I say??
If, like me, you’re a lover of the Irish Cream then
DEFINITELY GIVE THIS A TRY. If, like many of my friends, you’ve finished exams
today after a month’s hard slog spent revising, then I FORBID YOU TO EAT A
DESSERT THAT DOESN’T CONTAIN ALCOHOL. Really. Everybody, just go make this.
If,
somehow, incredibly, you happen to have Baileys left over from Christmas (how
have you now drunk it??) then the universe is compelling you to chuck it in
this pudding. If you don’t have any in, this is a good excuse to go buy
Baileys. What are you waiting for?? Send your thoughts this way. I’m beaming a big thumbs up to everyone who’s survived
January exams! And sending my love!
Party safely now,
Hayley
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