Hint Of Orange Bread Pudding

• 12 Slices White Bread, preferably somewhat dried out
• 1/2 cup Butter, softened
• 3/4 cup Apricot Jam
• 5 tablespoons Cointreau
• 1/4 cup Raisins
• 1/4 cup Dried Cranberries
• 1/4 cup Dried Apricots, chopped
• Zest 1 Orange
• 1/4 cup White Chocolate Chunks
• 1 1/3 cups Full Cream Milk
• 1 1/3 cups Heavy Cream
• 2 tablespoons Fine Sugar
• 1 tablespoon Orange Flower Blossom Water
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 3 Eggs
• Grated Nutmeg

1. Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. Heat 1 Tbsp Cointreau, and use to soak raisins.
4. Remove crusts from bread.
5. Butter bread, then slather with apricot jam.
6. Cut 4 slices bread into 6 rectangles each. Lay pieces flat in baking dish so as to cover bottom, jam side up.
7. Remove raisins from Cointreau and reserve any remaining liquid.
8. Sprinkle bread layer with raisins, dried cranberries, dried apricots, orange zest and white chocolate.
9. Cut remaining slices of bread into 9 rectangles each. Lay down perpendicularly to existing layer, so that when looking down the top of the entire dish is filled with edges. There is no need to make it even or pretty.
10. Heat milk, cream, sugar, orange flower water, vanilla extract and 4 Tbsp plus any reserved Cointreau to just below boiling.
11. Whisk eggs in a heat-proof bowl.
12. Slowly whisk a little of heated mixture into eggs. Gradually whisk in all of hot liquid. Pour over bread and let soak for 30 minutes.
13. Dollop top of bread pudding with any left over apricot jam and sprinkle lightly with nutmeg.
14. Bake 40-45 minutes in a bain-marie.

white bread, butter, apricot jam, raisins, cranberries, orange, white chocolate, cream milk, heavy cream, sugar, orange flower, vanilla, eggs, nutmeg

Taken from food52.com/recipes/3263-hint-of-orange-bread-pudding (may not work)