Before I came to Australia, hot cross buns were a completely foreign idea to me. Most of the bread I had growing up was savoury, so needless to say when I got exposed to fruit breads, I became obsessed because now it felt like there should be sultanas in EVERYTHING. So I decided to combine my love for bread pudding – it runs in my family, I swear! – and newfound appreciation for the hot cross bun, into a next level dessert to warm you up this winter.
And of course, what’s dessert without a little secret ingredient?
Enter the Nutella Hot Cross Bun Bread Pudding, for all of your wintry hazelnut chocolate pudding needs.
Nutella Hot Cross Bun Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 6 hot cross buns
- 180 ml cream 3/4 cup
- 500 ml milk 2 cups
- 4 large eggs
- 150 g white sugar caster preferred
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 80 g Nutella
- 5 g of peeled hazelnuts roughly chopped (optional)
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 170C.
- Cut the buns in half horizontally and spread both sides generously with Nutella. Go on, you can't have too much Nutella in your life.
- Place into a pan that will fit the buns in snugly.
- Mix the rest of the ingredients in a bowl, till the sugar is completely dissolved. For extra smoothness, strain the custard mixture through a fine sieve.
- Pour slowly over the buns. The pan might seem quite full, but it's just because the buns haven't absorbed the custard yet.
- Leave to soak for 20 minutes or so, pressing on the buns gently to encourage said soaking.
- Place the pan into a larger roasting pan, and fill the larger pan halfway up with hot water from a kettle.
- Scatter over hazelnuts, if using.
- Bake for about 50 minutes, turning halfway through, until the pudding is very lightly browned on the top and it still is slightly wobbly.
- Remove from the water and leave for 10 minutes to rest before serving.
Notes
What’s your favourite way to turn a seasonal favourite into a classic dessert? I’d love to hear your creative ideas in the comments below!
giiiiirl this is like the best bread and butter pudding I’ve ever had! Still dreaming about it!!!! You rock my culinary world. Xo
You don’t know how much that pleases the culinary megalomaniac in me. haha!
Tammi I am very much a fan of your secret ingredient, in fact I’m just about to go and enjoy some on a buttery crumpet!
I haven’t had a bread pudding in ages, I know where I’m going to head when the weather cool down a little more.
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Have a beautiful Easter! x
Isn’t Nutella just the best? I could eat out of the jar with a spoon.
Oh gosh, this looks amazing! I am going to make some Hot Cross Buns just for this recipe!
Now that’s dedication!
I’ve never had bread pudding, but this sounds like a great place start!
You’ve never had bread pudding?! You gotta try it. It’s all sorts of stodgy comforting goodness.
These look amazing! I also love your red and white tray.
Thank you! I got it at Woolworth’s on sale! Gotta love the sale.
If I had any hot cross buns left, I would SO be making this. It looks absolutely delicious 🙂
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I would be one of the few people in the world not to have ever tried Nutella. However, I do like hot cross buns
This is going to become my Easter staple! I adore all three parts to the dish… Literally blown away by the deliciousness! Great recipe 🙂
Thank you! It was definitely one of my favourite recipes to do. =)
Great combination of lots of yummy things – what a cool idea.
I bought a jar of nutella to make your bun pudding, unfortunately (or more fortunately perhaps) I ate the jar before I could put it into action. Haha! But I freakin LOVE this recipe, its only been in the last few years that I discovered nutella hot cross buns and I would never have thought to pudding it up. Sharing this bad boy for sure. Mmmmm!
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, amirite? 😉 I too, had difficulties saving enough Nutella for the dish. Hehe!
Bread pudding is my favorite dessert and I love your twist to it. You really can’t go wrong with Nutella. Looks so delicious, ready to help myself immediately!
This looks so good. I would eat all of them
Myself though because hubby doesn’t like Nutella!! Thanks for the post!
Oh wow! I think he’s the first person I’ve heard of that doesn’t like Nutella! You know, it would also be banging with a peanut butter filling…
Oh, this looks soooo decadent. Sadly I didn’t have any hot cross buns leftover to use. Or maybe given the cream and chocolate in this dish that was a good thing:) I just love the way you have styled this. So pretty.
Thank you! I’m sure with hot cross buns like the beautiful ones you’ve made, I wouldn’t have any left over either! Thank you for coming by. =)