Chocolate Bread Pudding
A chocolate bread pudding made by soaking slices of cream bread in chocolate custard, then baked.
Ingredients
Double cream
250 ml
Milk
250 ml
Salt
1/2 tsp
Cocoa powder
25 g (0.75 oz)
Eggs
3
Sugar
125 g (4 oz)
Vanilla extract
1 tsp
Soft round bread or small dinner rolls
3
Unsalted butter (softened)
30 g (1 oz)
Instructions
1
Make the chocolate custard
Place the cream, milk, and salt in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat slowly until it comes to a boil, then remove from the heat. Sift the cocoa powder and stir it into the milk. Whisk the eggs with the sugar, then beat in the chocolate milk and vanilla extract.
2
Prepare the bread
Slice the rolls thinly and spread with butter. Arrange enough bread slices in a gratin dish so the bread slightly rises above the rim of the dish. Pour the chocolate custard along the edges.