Description
The best chocolate bread pudding dessert! Easy to make and a people pleaser! Serve with whipped cream if you like, or ice cream – or both!
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup whole milk
- 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 ounces day-old French bread, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
- ¼ cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat heavy cream
- sugar
- and milk in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves
- stirring occasionally
- about 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Stir chopped chocolate into warm cream mixture using a wire whisk until smooth and chocolate has melted completely. Whisk eggs and vanilla extract into mixture gradually until well combined.
- Place French bread into the bottom of a shallow 8-inch square glass or ceramic baking dish. Pour chocolate mixture over bread. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes
- stirring occasionally.
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- Remove pudding from the refrigerator
- uncover
- and sprinkle with chocolate chips.
- Bake in the preheated oven
- uncovered
- until set
- 40 to 45 minutes.
- Remove from the oven. Let cool 10 minutes before serving warm
- or cover and refrigerate to serve cold later.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins
Servings: 9