What could be bad about chocolate and bread pudding all mixed into one. They are both the ultimate comfort food.
I have been making this chocolate bread pudding for years. The recipe is adapted from an old Debbi Field’s Cookbook.
I guess Debbi Field is good at making other things besides cookies, because some of the desserts in my Debbi Fields’ Great American Desserts
are family favorites that I have been making for years. I have an older edition of Great American Desserts that I got about fifteen years ago, and I have used it so much.
My husband’s all time favorite dessert, peanut butter mud pie with a peanut butter cookie crust, comes from that cookbook. My white chocolate cheesecake is adapted from a recipe in that cookbook.
I love the desserts in that cookbook and could go on and on, but I am supposed to be focusing on the chocolate bread pudding today. I get easily distracted when I talk about desserts.
So, let’s get back to the chocolate bread pudding.
Bread pudding is a classic old fashioned dessert. It contains basic ingredients that we all have in our kitchen and it is so easy to make.
It is also a great way to use up some of those odd pieces of bread that no one wants to eat. You know those end pieces that are still left long after the loaf of bread is gone. Or is my house the only house that does not like the end pieces on a loaf of bread?
The original recipe, like most bread pudding recipes, calls for french bread, but I usually just use whatever bread I have and it works fine. I mean once you cover bread in chocolate and cream, you can’t really tell what kind of bread you used to make it.
Enjoy!
For my gluten free readers, I posted my thoughts on gluten free bread pudding in my allergy section today and you will want to read it. Gluten free eating can and should be good and you can make gluten free bread pudding.
Chocolate Bread Pudding
Bread pudding made better with chocolate.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter or oil for greasing the dishes
- 1 cup cream
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 12 ounces of chocolate chips
- 5 cups of cubed day old french bread or similar type of bread (cut this into about 3/4 inch cubes)
- whipped cream for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325. Lightly grease 6 ramekins or you can also do this in an 11x9 inch pan.
- Melt chocolate chips.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, cream, milk, and vanilla. Stir in melted chocolate until smooth. Add bread stirring gently to combine.
- Place in ramekins or 11x9 pan.
- Place ramekins or pan into a large pan filled with one inch of hot water. You are creating a water bath.
- Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.
- Let cool slightly. Serve warm topped with whipped cream.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 694Total Fat: 41gSaturated Fat: 23gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 15gCholesterol: 121mgSodium: 328mgCarbohydrates: 77gFiber: 4gSugar: 53gProtein: 11g
Nutritional values are approximate and aren't always accurate.
Great recipe, and I love the tea cup idea! This would be a great recipe for dark chocolate; thank you for sharing.
My two favorite things…chocolate and bread pudding. I actually have that Debbie Fields cookbook…I just may have to dust it off. I haven’t looked through it in years. And it does look really cute in the tea cups.
Funny you mention the Debbie Fields’ cookbook, I just saw some at a used bookstore and I was wondering why so many people would get rid of them. I know they might seem dated, but the recipes are classic! Your bread pudding looks great.
@flora, I have one of her cookie cookbooks and it is good also, but the Great American Desserts is my favorite of the cookbooks by her that I have seen. I agree it might seem a little dated, but the recipes are classic. If you see this cookbook used, you should pick it up. I think you would enjoy it.
This looks wonderful! I love chocolate bread pudding. Now to eeek some hours away from the day job to make this!
I love, love, love bread pudding! I cannot wait to try this recipe. I have never had chocolate bread pudding. One of the things I have missed since going gluten free is Ina Garten’s Croissant Bread Pudding….pure heaven. 🙂
I’ve yet to try bread pudding… but I’m thinking chocolate bread pudding is the way to go 🙂