I bought an Australian House & Garden magazine recently (Home Living is usually my mag of choice), and I stumbled upon this delicious looking mixed berry Summer Pudding recipe. I decided to have a crack at it to take to Thanksgiving Dinner with me, and I was really surprised at how easy it was to make! Of course I took photos along the way so I could blog about it =)

And here they are, along with the recipe:

Mikaela’s attempt at a Summer Pudding Recipe
Prep: 15mins, Cooking time: 5mins, plus overnight refrigeration

Ingredients

Ingredients:
1/2 loaf sliced white bread, crusts removed (I used about 3/4 of a loaf)
750g mixed berries (I used a 500g pack of frozen blueberries, boysenberries and raspberries, plus fresh strawberries, I’d get more next time though, it wasn’t quite enough. I also decided to put in some apple)
2/3 cup caster sugar
whipped cream, to serve

Granny Smith Apple, yum!

Steps:
1. Cut bread into wedges or strips and line the base and sides of a medium sized bowl (the mag says 4-cup pudding basin, I just used an ordinary plastic mixing bowl)

Fresh chopped Strawberries, nature's candy

2. Chop fruit if necessary (I decided to put some apple in also, so cooked this for a good 5 minutes longer than everything else).

Chopped Apples

Place most of the berries and all sugar into a saucepan and cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly. It should go nice and gooey.

Berries with Sugar

Berries, nice and gooey

3. Spoon half the mixture into the bread-lined bowl, then place a layer of bread on top. Spoon the rest of the mixture in, top with more bread, and then drizzle most of the juice over the whole thing (this is where I realised I needed more fruit, my bowl wasn’t quite full and I also ran out of juice).

Berries in bread-lined bowl

4. Place a small plate on top of pudding, making sure it fits inside the lip of the bowl, and place a few tins on top to compress the pudding while it sets. Refridgerate over night.

5. Turn pudding out onto serving plate, coat with rest of berry juice if necessary (when I turned mine out the juice hadn’t soaked through at all, see photos on my Summer Pudding Recipe flickr set), top with fresh berries and cream, and serve.

Summer Pudding - tada!

Mine doesn’t look quite as pretty as the one in the magazine, but not bad for a first go! And everyone at thanksgiving said it was really yummy =)

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