DAY Recipe

Ella Brennan, who has been called the “queen of Creole cuisine,” tasted her first bread pudding long ago. “It was my mother’s,” she says. “You never had anything like it.”
These days, people say the same thing about the bread pudding at Brennan’s famous Commander’s Palace restaurant in New Orleans. “Our bread pudding soufflé outsells all [...]

INGREDIENTS

30 large marshmallows
150 g dark cooking chocolate
30 g Copha
50 g white chocolate
2glace cherries, chopped
4glace cherries, cut into strips

DIRECTIONS

Place cooking chocolate with copha in a microwave safe bowl.
Heat on medium power for 2-3 minutes, stirring often until mixture is melted.
Stir well until mixture is smooth –
N.B. careful to not overcook chocolate as chocolate will go hard. (otherwise melt chocolate and copha in bowl over [...]

INGREDIENTS

1chocolate-covered marshmallow biscuit
white chocolate , melted
1 raspberry , jelly, lolly
1 mint leaf , lolly cut in half

DIRECTIONS

Place a dollop of white chocolate on top of the biscuit.
Place a raspberry on top of the white chocolate & the mint leaves to resemble holly.

INGREDIENTS

softened butter , to grease
150 g self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
125 ml sunflower oil
1 carrot , finely grated
120 g soft brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon golden syrup (and some to serve)
100 g chopped walnuts , toasted (and some to serve)
250 g mascarpone cheese
75 g icing sugar
1 lemon, zest of , grated
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C, gas mark 4.Grease 6 150ml individual pudding basins or ramekins.In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, oil, carrot, sugar, eggs, 1tsp vanilla [...]

At the Perryville Inn chef Paul Ingenito uses the succulent bits of meat from lobster knuckles in a bread pudding, which he bakes and serves in empty lobster tail shells as an adjunct to a whole lobster. We thought the pudding was stunning enough to stand on its own and so adapted the recipe, using [...]