Hi guys, I hope you're all really, really well. I'm going to show you how to make the most
beautiful dessert. It's a French toast panettone pudding. It's really quick to put together, around
15 minutes start to finish, and it's so, so good. It's perfect for this time of year when we get
into the festive season because there's panettones everywhere, and this recipe is from my new book
Together. Now this book is all about feasting and I've done a feast for all kinds of different
occasions. One of the chapters, one of the feasts in here, is called Last Minute Feast and the idea
is, how can you do an incredible dinner party which is absolutely safe, secure, delicious,
but easy, and quick, and makes it look like you've put a lot of thought into it? So this dessert
is perfect, it's a win-win. So it's from that chapter, let's make it it's so good. Get yourself
a nice non-stick pan. First job is just take a little bit of butter, just like a nice knob,
put it into here and we're just going to rub it around the bottom like that, and that's going
to give it a nice golden crispy outside. Next job we're going to take this beautiful panettone. Now
you could have leftover panettone no trouble at all, or you could buy one. What I want to
do is cut two-centimetre thick slices. Use a serrated knife for this, and use the length of
the knife. So in a bowl we're going to add into here four eggs, lovely free-range eggs. In here
we're going to add some extra flavour. So i've got some vanilla paste, now this vanilla paste
have a little look here, you can get this in the supermarkets. Of course you can use a vanilla pod,
but this paste is incredibly convenient. A nice generous teaspoon of that goes in, a little sort
of heaped teaspoon or so of sugar goes in, whisk that up. Now at this time of year if I happened
to sort of stumble and have a little bit of Baileys, or sherry, or vin santo, oh by mistake
I might just put some of that in. But of course if you've got kids around you wouldn't put it in.
So whisk that up, and that's it. What we do now is we put our lovely slice of panettone
into our eggs, turn it around, and then we're going to take that lovely piece of panettone
and place it in the bottom of the pan. So what I'm going to do now is make kind of a sandwich,
okay. So there's two things that make this rock. I've got some beautiful tinned peaches here,
so I'll just line those up and I'll just slice those. And of course if you wanted to use pears,
strawberries, cherries - then I'm going to take these gorgeous peaches and I'm going to put them
on top of that piece of panettone in any old way,
stack them in there like that. Once you've done that get yourself 100 grams of chocolate. I've got
70% cocoa solids. What I do now is just break it up into little chunks, and this will ooze
and create little pools of chocolate. And then we've got the second piece of panettone here
and we go back in to that gorgeous flavoured eggs like that, and I do two things at this stage very
very simple. Pour any excess egg on top of our chocolate and fruit like that, and then simply
go on top like that. That's it guys - the job is done. With this dish it's not only just quick
to put together, but you could put that in the fridge the day before no trouble at all, right?
But when you come to cook it you simply put it on a medium-high heat for about three minutes,
maybe four minutes, just to get it going just to get a little bit of golden colour,
put a little bit of icing sugar which always makes me feel very festive. So on with some icing sugar,
and then under the grill. So look you can see we've got some sizzling happening. Just get
a little knife, have a little kind of look underneath. If it's looking lightly golden,
you're good to go. Then we can take it now from the hob to under the grill. The grill's on medium
and normally around 10 minutes is spot on, but basically when it's golden
and caramelised and gorgeous. Beautiful things are gonna happen.
Okay so it's had about 10 to 12 minutes - oh look at that! Sizzling on the top.
What's brilliant about the panettone is it is the smell of Christmas. So let's just serve it
on a beautiful board. Look at that. Let's get in there, and get a nice little slice - oh
come on! Let's have a little bit of icing sugar,
it's that time of year let's make it look festive. Vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream,
look at that. That my friends is a gorgeous, gorgeous dessert, and have a little look
onto the inside there look at that. Right let's have a little try of this.
Mm!
Scrumptious, the peach and the chocolate is a thing of joy, that is literally the simplest
little dessert ever and it feels like you've really put a lot of time and effort into it and
it was as simple as that. Panettone, eggs, vanilla, chocolate and fruit, happy days.