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    Pain au chocolat and almond pudding

    • Vegetarian
    • Preparation time: 15 minutes, plus soaking
    • Cooking time: 30 minutes
    • Total time: 45 minutes, plus soaking

    Serves: 6

    Ingredients

    unsalted butter, for greasing
    4 all butter pain au chocolat, cut into 1cm-thick slices
    25g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
    400ml almond milk
    50g caster sugar
    3 eggs
    few drops almond essence

    ALMOND CREAM

    300ml double cream
    50g icing sugar
    few drops almond essence

    Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 180˚C, gas mark 4. Lightly grease a 1-litre baking dish and layer up the sliced pain au chocolat inside. Scatter over the dark chocolate.

    2. Whisk together the almond milk, caster sugar, eggs and almond essence.Pour over the pain au chocolat and leave to soak for up to 30 minutes.

    3. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until well risen and golden. Meanwhile, whisk the double cream to soft peaks. Fold in the icing sugar and almond essence. Serve the pudding with the whipped almond cream.

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    This recipe first appeared in Waitrose Kitchen magazine. myWaitrose members can download the Waitrose Kitchen app edition for FREE. Find out more.

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