Fruity Bread Pudding

I finally have an exciting bread pudding recipe to share! Ok, maybe exciting is too much, but it's got a lot of flavour going on!

Ingredients:

250g stale bread slices, heels and crusts
2 cups + 2 tbsps milk
1/2 cup mixed candied fruit and/or raisins
2 tbsps orange juice
zest of 1 orange
2 tbsps shredded coconut
14 or 15 pitted dates, chopped
1 tbsp jam or marmalade, any flavour
1  1/2 tbsps brown sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
splash of vanilla extract
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1-2 tsp freshly grated ginger
1 tbsp rum

Combine milk, orange juice, vanilla, rum and jam. Then combine the rest of the ingredients and mix together. 

Let the bread soak in the mixture for 30-60 minutes.

Grease an 8" baking dish and pour everything in.

Bake at 350 F for 45-55 minutes.

Serve plain, with a brown sugar sauce, with ice cream or with maple syrup like I did here.

Adapted from: http://eatinmykitchen.meikepeters.com/joannas-amazing-maltese-bread-pudding/