Ham and Cheese Bread Pudding and Perfect Hosting Tips

I love hosting coffee mornings for my girlfriends. Especially on cold mornings with the wood burner on at full blast, as we try and exchange our news over the lovely chaos of children running around the kitchen table.

During gatherings like these, I tend to focus much more on the children and the food, which works well, but not so much on drinks and other areas. So I was keen to check out tips from Tassimo’s Perfect Host Panel (which features Chef John Torode, coffee expert Hazel Middleton and Millie Mackintosh) to brush up on my hosting skills. They share seasonal recipes, kitchen hacks and tips on drinks and being the perfect host.

So during my most recent coffee morning I put quite a few of their tips into action

• Create a great ambiance – which I did easily via some Christmas decorations on the table, lamps and Christmas music.
• Serve crowd pleasing mini pastries for ease – I  prepared and served John’s ham and cheese bread pudding.
• Put out a selection of great hot drinks – a drinks and cookie corner including coffees and teas and of course children’s tea aka roiboos.
• I also added in a girlfriend’s tip of throwing in a children’s treasure hunt, which meant we had 20 mins of quiet grown up times to really dig in to those cookies and to savor that second cup of coffee.

And the morning went like a dream. It felt rather luxurious to sit round and have our own cafe style coffee on tap, along with the ham and cheese bread puddings and gorgeous cookies, and every now and then singing along to Christmas music. Even the kiddoes joined in with the sing along after their treasure hunt.

The mums were so impressed that one of them promptly borrowed the Tassimo machine for the book club morning she was hosting the following weekend. Now that is what I call a result.

Do pop over to Tassimo for some more perfect host tips, easy recipes and great selection of hot drinks.

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5 from 1 vote

Ham and Cheese Bread Pudding

A savoury ham and cheese bread pudding that is perfect for coffee mornings.

Cook Time40 mins

Servings: 16 puddings

Author: Bintu Hardy | Recipes From A Pantry

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 4 egg yolks
• Salt
• Ground black pepper
• 450 ml 1.75 cup milk
• 450 ml 1.75cup double cream
• 1 loaf white sliced bread
• 300 g 10.5oz grated mozzarella
• 200 g 7oz smoked ham shredded
• 50 g 1.7oz salted butter
• Parmesan cheese for sprinkling

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to fan assisted 140C / 160C / 325 F / gas 3.
• Mix together the eggs, egg yolks, salt and pepper, then pour in the milk and cream, mixing together well, but don't whisk.
• Remove the crusts from the bread, cutting each slice into strips
• Mix together the cheese and ham in a separate bowl.
• Grease the muffin moulds well with salted butter.
• Start to layer the moulds with first a couple of strips of bread, then the ham and cheese mix until each mould is 3/4 full.
• Then top each mould with the egg custard mixture (from step two) and leave to soak for 10 minutes, so the bread absorbs the mixture.
• Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
• Bake for 40 minutes, then remove from the oven and allow them to set at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
• Pairs well with horseradish cream and a Tassimo Costa Latte.

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Thanks to Tassimo for sending me a machine and some vouchers to recreate the recipe. All opinions are my own.