Bread 'n Butter Pudding!

Hey guys, sweet treat coming through!
As promised, today's recipe is: Bread and Butter Pudding
This is one of my favourites to make and eat, of course. Generally, if I'm having a sweet craving and there happens to be an old loaf of bread lying around I'll make this. Why throw out stale bread when you can make something delicious out of it? Let's get started!

Bread and Butter Pudding

- Serves 2-4 (depending how much you can hold back :p)

Ingredients

- White sandwich bread, amount varies based on dish

[Stale works best if it's a little hard, otherwise fresh bread is okay]

- 2 eggs

- 2 tablespoons of sugar

- 350mL of milk

- A tub of butter, for spreading

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla paste or equivalent to 1 vanilla bean

- Cinnamon

Optional

- Sultanas/Raisins

- Orange Marmalade

- Brown sugar 

- Ice cream/cream

1. First, preheat your oven to 180C. Then, cut the crusts off your bread and cut diagonally to make triangles.
2. Butter your dish and both sides of each slice of bread. Arrange the bread in layers.
[For rectangular dishes, I recommend standing up the triangles with the points in the air. For round dishes, I think going around in a rose shape looks nice :)]

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Custard mix

3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, milk, cinnamon and vanilla.
4. Pour the mixture over the bread as evenly as possible, ensuring that the pointy ends get some custard as well. Spread over your favourite toppings!
5. If possible, leave the bread to soak and absorb the custard mix for 20 minutes, or as long as possible. [If in a rush, you can skip this step.]
6. Place your pudding dish into a water bath using a tray or roasting pan . To make the water bath, add water to the tray/pan until it reaches halfway up the pudding dish. Cover with foil.

Add your toppings!

7. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 15 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Serve the pudding hot with cream or ice-cream if desired!

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An older version made in a rectangular dish

YUM!

When adding things like marmalade, place dollops around the dish and let it melt when baking!
I really like this dish because the pudding is moist, the sultanas give a burst of sweetness, the cinnamon and vanilla give off an amazing aroma and some of the bread becomes crispy like toast to contrast in to the soft center.
The point of this recipe was to use up leftovers; so let me know guys: How do you use your leftovers?

Thanks, hope you enjoyed!
S.