Cherry and plum brioche jam pudding Recipe

Light and easy, our cherry and plum brioche jam pudding makes the perfect summer dessert. It's like bread and butter pudding, but we've spread the brioche slices with jam rather than butter. Using brioche gives this dessert extra special finish and is similar to the French dish Pain perdu. Pain perdu translates as lost bread. This is because stale bread or brioche is used to make the indulgent dessert. We recommend that you choose an extra fruity conserve with lumps of cherry inside. We used Waitrose morello cherry extra fruity preserve which worked a treat. The lumps of cherry made our brioche and jam pudding extra delicious. Serve with ice cream or double cream for a luxurious finish but it's tasty on its own too.

Ingredients

• 8 slices (about 250g) brioche
• 120g cherry jam
• 3 plums, stones removed and sliced
• 2 nectarines, stones removed and sliced
• 50g raspberries
• 15g pistachios, chopped
• icing sugar, optional, to serve

For the custard:

• 600ml full-fat milk
• 2 eggs
• 30g caster sugar
• 2tsp vanilla bean paste

You will need:

• 20x27cm oven proof dish or tray lightly buttered

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Spread the sliced of brioche with jam and tear up. Put into the dish. Arrange the fruit and nuts on top.
2. Mix the custard ingredients together and pour over. Bake for 30 mins. Cool for 5 mins before serving and sift over the icing sugar, if using.