Ingredients

  • 12 slices your favourite cinnamon raisin bread
  • 1 large pear, peeled,cored and sliced
  • 3 tablespoons dried cherries or 3 tablespoons cranberries
  • 4 tablespoons chopped hazelnuts
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 6 large eggs, beaten
  • 1 12 cups heavy cream or 1 12 cups half-and-half
  • 4 tablespoons powdered sugar

Method

  • Lightly butter a baking pan.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Set a hot water bath into oven.
  • Line the baking dish with the cinnamon bread cut into strips, or cubes.
  • Layer on top of the bread, pear, cherries, and nuts.
  • Beat the eggs in a large bowl with vanilla, and brown sugar, and the cream.
  • Pour over bread fuit layer.
  • Let sit for five minutes or so.
  • Sprinkle the entire top with the powdered icing sugar.
  • Place into the hot water bath, and bake in oven until golden and set.
  • about 30 minutes.
  • A hot water bath is a large pan (bigger than your baking dish) with hot water placed in oven, with a rack.
  • then the baking pan is placed on the rack, and the hot water should come half way up the sides.