Recipe courtesy of Food Network

Chocolate Chunk Bread Pudding

  • Level: Easy
  • Total: 3 hr 15 min (includes cooling time)
  • Prep: 25 min
  • Inactive: 2 hr
  • Cook: 50 min
A custardy bread pudding has a touch of spice and vanilla with gooey pockets of chocolate.
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Ingredients

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, plus more for buttering the baking dish

4 large egg yolks plus 3 large whole eggs

2/3 cup sugar

4 cups milk

1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Pinch freshly grated nutmeg

Pinch fine salt

One 1-pound loaf sliced white bread, cut into 1-inch pieces and left out overnight to dry out

1 cup chocolate chunks

[For Serving:] Whipped cream and chocolate shavings (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 2-quart baking dish and set aside. Whisk the yolks, whole eggs and sugar together in a large bowl. Bring the milk, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt to a boil in a medium saucepan. Whisking constantly, slowly pour the milk mixture into the egg mixture.
  2. Toss the bread and chocolate together in a large bowl and then transfer to the prepared baking dish. Pour the egg-milk mixture over the bread. Stir the bread a few times so the custard settles evenly in the pan and set aside for 10 minutes. Scatter the butter pieces over the bread, cover tightly with foil and put the dish inside a larger baking dish or roasting pan. Pour enough hot tap water into the larger dish to reach halfway up the side of the bread pudding dish. Bake until just set, but still wiggly, about 50 minutes.
  3. Uncover and cool completely. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream and a sprinkling of chocolate shavings if using.
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Erin S.

I once had a chocolate chunk bread pudding in a coffee shop and it was the greatest thing of all time, so I was trying to replicate it with this recipe since I had a loaf of stale bread. The reason I give this recipe five starts first and foremost is that it is what a bread pudding recipe should be, a way to use up bread and make something yummy with the ingredients you have on hand. A lot of the recipes you read want you to buy a loaf of brioche, buy heavy cream or half and half. This is just stale bread, milk, sugar etc. The amount of liquid to a one pound loaf was perfect and it was delicious. <div><br /></div><div>A couple notes: </div><div>-The picture looks like a loaf pan, but you need a 13x9 inch pan for this and it will be full to the brim, so I actually had to break out my roasting pan to give it a water bath. </div><div>-If you don't let your milk/egg mixture cool all the way you will end up with chocolate bread pudding, not chocolate chunk bread pudding. That sort of happened to me, so once it had sat for the 10 minutes I added some chunks to the top. Which if that happens to you was pretty yummy as well :)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

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