Description
This easy bread pudding is a home run for chocolate lovers. We’re not all daring enough to drizzle chocolate over chocolate, so use vanilla sauce if desired. I personally think it looks better.
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups heavy whipping cream
- ¼ cup whole milk
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 ¼ cups semisweet chocolate chips, divided
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups French bread, with crust, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 cup prepared chocolate sauce, warmed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Combine cream
- milk
- and 1/2 cup sugar in a heavy saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium-low heat
- stirring until sugar dissolves
- 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat
- add 1 cup chocolate chips and whisk until melted and smooth.
- Whisk egg and vanilla extract together in a large bowl to blend. Gradually whisk in hot chocolate mixture. Set custard aside to cool
- stirring often
- for about 10 minutes.
- Add bread cubes and remaining chocolate chips to the custard and toss to coat. Transfer to a 1 1/2-quart shallow oval baking dish. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons sugar over the pudding.
- Bake in the preheated oven until custard thickens and center is just set
- about 50 minutes.
- Serve pudding warm
- drizzled with warm chocolate sauce.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 10