Had plenty of very stale St. Lucia buns (I’ve been baking a lot this week and there’s only so much I can eat ok) so used them to make bread pudding 🍞🥛🥚🍊

Custard is a mix of cream, condensed milk, water, eggs, and orange zest. It’s sweet but not too sweet which means it counts as breakfast — and looks especially scrummy next to our Christmas Eve centerpiece.

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻

Recipe is loosely based on the simple bread pudding on NYT Cooking - I used about 5-6 cups of small cubed stale Lucia buns (sourdough milk bread with cardamom), 2 cups of liquid (cream and water), ~1/4 cup of sweetened condensed milk, zest of one orange, and salt. Baked in an 8” square baking dish.