banana raisin bread pudding

It has been a while since I last blogged. It was not because I have not been baking / cooking. Rather, I do not seem to have enough hours in a day lately.... sigh....

Today, I asked Da to buy a fresh loaf of milk bread and a fresh bunch of bananas (pang jio) for Princess. Da asked what about the existing loaf of milk bread that had only a few slices left and the existing bunch of bananas that had only 4 bananas left). That gave me an idea.

Banana raisin bread pudding!

INGREDIENTS

2 cups low fat milk

1/4 cup butter (melted)

3 eggs

1/4 cup castor sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla essence

4 slices bread (cut into small cubes)

4 overripe bananas (mashed)

1/2 cup raisins

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.

2. Grease and line a 9" square cake pan with baking paper. Set aside.

3. Mix the milk and melted butter. Set aside.

4. Whisk the eggs, castor sugar, brown sugar, ground cinnamon and vanilla essence until well combined.

5. Add the milk mixture and whisk until evenly combined.

6. Add the bread and leave to stand for 5 minutes.

7. Stir in the mashed bananas and raisins.

8. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake pan and bake at 180 degrees celsius for 50 minutes.