Chocolate Bread Pudding
Chocolate, pecans, maybe a little drizzle of salted caramel over the top...yummm
Ingredients
- 2 loaves brioche, cut into 1" cubes
- 9 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugarr
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate baking bar
- 4 ounces bittersweet baking bar
- 1 1/2 cups walnuts
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate baking chunks or morsels
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13” baking dish.
- Place the cubed bread in a large bowl.
- Place eggs, milk, sugars, nutmeg and vanilla in a medium bowl and mix well using a wire whisk.
- Pour the egg mixture over cubed bread, gently toss, and let soak for about 25 to 30 minutes at room temperature.
- While the bread is soaking, chop the two baking bars and put the chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave the chocolate in 15-second increments until warmed and melted. Alternatively, you can melt the chocolate bars in a double-boiler on the stovetop. Set aside.
- Place half the bread mixture in the bottom of a well-greased 9×13” baking dish. Drizzle the melted chocolate evenly over the bread.
- Put the remaining bread on top of melted chocolate.
- Scatter the chocolate chunks and walnuts over the top.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Check center for doneness. Continue to bake as needed until the center eggs are cooked. My oven took an hour and 5 minutes.
- Once finished cooking, remove the pan from oven and allow the bread pudding to stand for about 10 minutes. This dish can be served hot or room temperature.
Notes
You can certainly halve the recipe if this is too much for your crew.
You can use less milk to make this less gooey, but I like the gooiness. There a lot of great tutorials online for making bread pudding. You can make them sweet, such as this one, or make them savory.
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