Ingredients
- 1 loaf Brioche, Challah, or other sweet bread
- 4 ounces butter, melted
- 16 ounces white chocolate, chunked
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2/3 cups sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, split
- 8 large eggs
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cut the brioche loaf into 1 inch dice. Place in a 2 quart baking dish. Drizzle with melted butter. Toss chunked white chocolate with bread cubes.
Combine milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla bean and bring to a boil over medium heat until sugar is disolved. Whisk eggs until smooth. Add hot milk mixture to eggs slowly, stirring contsantly. Do not wisk or custard will have a great deal of foam on the surface. Skim foam from custard. Strain custard over bread and chocolate. Let stand for 10 minutes to allow custard to soak into bread.
Place baking dish in another larger pan. Pour hot water into larger dish to reach 1 inch up side of dish. Bake the bread pudding for about 45 minutes to 1 hour, until custard is set and brioche is golden.
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By nveale1
on January 10, 2012
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I made this twice over the holidays and served it with a creamy vanilla sauce. Everyone loved it and came back for seconds. I used white chocolate morsels ands served the pudding slightly warmed. It was an old fashioned comfort food and made dessert very special.
By einnaj_1292286
La Crosse, WI
on November 27, 2011
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This is a delicious recipe. The first time I made it was for an office Thanksgiving buffet. There wasn't enough left to even scrape out the pan! Everyone asked for the recipe. Then I made it for our family Thanksgivings (yup, two! and it was a real hit. I would say, though, that you do not have to buy the expensive vanilla bean, just use good quality vanilla. Also, if you are going to use white chocolate chips instead of chunked chocolate I would use Ghirardeli. Anything else is waxy and it looks like the dish is swimming in fat. Yuck! I also cut the amount of butter in half. You really don't need that much. It's very rich and delicious and I'll make it again and again.
By Find_me_in_the_...
McLean, VA
on November 24, 2011
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This recipe is by far the most delicious bread pudding that I have ever made! I chose to use Challah bread. The only change I made was subbing 1 1/2 tablespoos of double-strength vanilla extract. I also had the bread soak in the custard for a little over 20 minutes before baking. I made this for our family's Thanksgiving this year. It was a huge hit! We served it warm with vanilla bean ice cream. If you are searching for a tried and true recipe for bread pudding, look no further you have just found your go to recipe!!
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