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Chocolate and marmalade croissant pudding

Chocolate and marmalade croissant pudding

This pudding is equally good served hot, warm or cold. Feel free to substitute your own marmalade recipe, or to use your favourite shop-bought version.

Chocolate and marmalade croissant pudding

Serves 8
Cooking Time Prep time 25 mins, cook 1 hr (plus cooling, standing)
560 gm   butter croissants (about 4), halved horizontally
50 gm   softened butter
80 gm   dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), coarsely chopped
400 ml   milk
400 ml   pouring cream
125 gm   caster sugar
4   eggs
1 tsp   vanilla bean paste
Marmalade
2   oranges, unpeeled, thinly sliced
1   lemon, unpeeled, thinly sliced
250 ml   (1 cup) orange juice
700 gm   white sugar


1 For marmalade, combine orange, lemon, orange juice and 500ml water in a wide saucepan. Bring to the boil over medium-high heat, cook until fruit is tender (5-6 minutes), add sugar and stir to dissolve. Stir occasionally until thick (20-25 minutes), then set aside to cool.
2 Preheat oven to 180C. Spread cut-sides of croissants with butter, then with marmalade. Layer croissants, cut-side up, in a buttered 3-litre baking dish, overlapping slightly. Scatter with chocolate.
3 Whisk milk, cream, sugar, eggs and vanilla paste in a bowl to combine, pour over croissants, cover and refrigerate until croissants absorb milk mixture (30 minutes). Bake until custard sets and pudding is puffed and golden brown (30-35 minutes). Serve hot.

This recipe is from the August 2012 issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller.

RECIPE Rodney Dunn PHOTOGRAPHY William Meppem STYLING Emma Knowles


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