Ainsley Harriott served up a delicious lemon and white chocolate bread and butter pudding on Ainsley’s Fantastic Flavours.

The ingredients are: 8-10 thick slices of brioche loaf (or white bread), slightly stale is best, 40g unsalted butter, room temp, plus extra to grease, 120g good quality lemon curd, 3 large eggs, plus 2 extra yolks, 70g caster sugar, 300ml double cream, 300ml full-fat milk, 1 tsp vanilla bean paste, 5 cardamom pods, 3 bashed, seeds of 2 finely ground in a pestle & mortar, 2 lemons, pared zest of 1, fine zest of 1, 100g white chocolate chips or chopped white chocolate and 2 tbsp demerara sugar.

To serve (optional): crème fraiche or pouring cream and fresh blueberries and small mint sprigs.

See recipes by Ainsley in his book titled: Ainsley’s Good Mood Food available from Amazon now.