Recipe courtesy of Marie Oates
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 16 servings
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- Nutritional Analysis
- Per Serving
- Serving Size
- 1 of 16 servings
- Calories
- 498
- Total Fat
- 33
- Saturated Fat
- 18
- Carbohydrates
- 44
- Dietary Fiber
- 1
- Sugar
- 31
- Protein
- 9
- Cholesterol
- 166
- Sodium
- 151
- Total: 1 hr 40 min
- Prep: 40 min
- Cook: 1 hr
Ingredients
1 vanilla bean, split
8 large eggs
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
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.