Jam Donut Pudding

I’ve always said that my all time favourite food was cinnamon donuts.  There is a chain-store donut shop at my local shooping centre that makes them in front of you.  I must admit I stand there mesmorized as the dough plops into the hot fat and slowly moves it’s way along the conveyer to its final destination – the big bowl of cinnamon and sugar!!  It’s only then that my trance is broken and I return to the land of the living.  Ah simple delights….

So one fine morning as I checked email at work, a devilishly naughty blog post appeared in my inbox (forwarded by Bells).  This blog post came in the wake of me listening to a podcast about giving up the evils of sugar in your diet.  It was quite amusing that I should be tempted back to “all things sugar” so soon after my attempted conversion.  Bells know I would never be able to resist this kind of recipe – and she was so right!!

Jam Donut Pudding  appeared on a blog called Not Quite Nigella and it was love at first sight.  Of course I am going to make a pudding out of donuts – there was never any question that I wouldn’t!!!  We were having guests for dinner – so I thought it was a perfect opportunity.

My husband thought it might be a bit too much – he wondered if the eggy mixture would cope with the dense donuts.  I wondered this too – but thought it worth a try.

I cut the donuts (day old donuts, by the way) across ways and spread them with blackberry jam and put them back together like a sandwich.  My baking dish was quite big so a dozen donuts did the trick.  I can tell you now my anticipation for the dish was almost tangible.

Well, it cooked up beautifully and was not nearly as sweet as you would imagine.  A good bread-type pudding for me needs to have enough of the custard mixture penetrating the bread to make it moist, but also just a hint of its original breadiness still present.  This dish did all those things.

My only other comment would be that it browned a little too much on top for my liking.  This is partly due to my oven (which is on the wish list for replacement).  In the last 10 minutes I might cover it in foil next time to preserve the top layer form browning too much.

All in all, a delightful dish.  It certainly rang my bell.  I’ll be making it again – but only for guests.  If I just make it for my family of three I can see myself devouring the lot!

I must apologise to our regular readers.  I have been finding it difficult to get into the swing of regular blogging.  The cooking comes easy – the blogging takes more effort (although I enjoy the end results).  So I am going to do my best to blog weekly from now on.  Thanks again for visiting this site and reading along about something that I love.

See you next week.

Delly

PS.  A quick shout out to our cat Tiggy who recently celebrated his 3rd birthday and his 1st year anniversary of living with us.  He’s been such a great addition to our small family and my son and I made a cake to honour the occasion.