I love bread. I love chocolate. I love soggy, chocolatey bread. So you can imagine I thoroughly enjoyed this week’s TWD recipe chosen by Lauren of Upper East Side Chronicle (soon to be A Baking Blog), 4-Star Bread Pudding. I’m sure you all know how bread pudding works, basically you soak stale bread cubes in a milk mixture and bake it – deeeelicious. Dorie boils milk and cream together and mixes it together with eggs, sugar and chocolate; she pours it over stale Challah or Brioche and raisins or dried cherries and voila, chocolate bread pudding.
Now, I didn’t do excactly as Dorie told me to. I decided to pass on the option of the raisins or dried cherries (I don’t believe in fruit/chocolate mixtures- you know that!), I added a dash of cinnamon, and I also tossed in some semi-sweet chocolate chips with my bread. I ended up using twice the amount of chocolate called for and still could’ve used a tad more….I know..it’s a sickness. We’re looking into it. I used Challah bread, which was perfect – I love Challah. Especially the smooth, shiny crust – beautiful.
I personally think this recipe would be perfect at breakfast/brunch. To me, it seems to fit in somewhere in the family of my personal breakfast favorite, chocolate chip pancakes (with the whipped cream smiley face, thankyouverymuch!). I was really glad I added the extra chocolate chips – it really added to the “gooeyness” and in my opinion helped a lot with the taste and texture.
If you would like the recipe, head on over to Lauren’s blog and make yourself a chocolate bread pudding this weekend!
Oooooh cinnamon! Why didn’t I think of that? I bet it was fantastic with the chocolate 🙂
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Comment by Tracey — April 20, 2009 @ 9:20 PM
More chocolate? Bring it on!
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Comment by Megan — April 20, 2009 @ 9:50 PM
Yeah…this was a winner. YUMMY!
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Comment by Natalie — April 20, 2009 @ 9:57 PM
Wow, this looks fantastic!!!
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Comment by farah — April 21, 2009 @ 5:28 AM
I think that your decision to add extra chocolate chips to the pudding was great. I had to do that to up the chocolate factor when I reheated mine.
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Comment by Jessica — April 21, 2009 @ 5:54 AM
You are so right – Chocolate+Bread does equal Love!
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Comment by Eliana — April 21, 2009 @ 7:00 AM
Looks amazing!!! In fact I think I might go get a bowl of mine right now!
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Comment by Michelle — April 21, 2009 @ 7:02 AM
I agree this would make a great breakfast. I’m glad you loved the chocolate!
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Comment by Clivia — April 21, 2009 @ 7:45 AM
You’re right… chocolate & bread = love, but I just couldn’t do it! I had some yummy Arnold Palmer cupcakes, though! 😉 Love your pics!!
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Comment by Hornedfroggy of My Baking Heart — April 21, 2009 @ 8:18 AM
Yours looks wonderful. Really you don’t like fruit/chocolate mixtures?! You’re a weirdo 🙂 I totally agree that this need more chocolate though, I bet your was delicious!
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Comment by Sara — April 21, 2009 @ 8:34 AM
Your pudding looks fantastic.
I didn’t use fruit in mine either.
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Comment by chocolatechic — April 21, 2009 @ 9:12 AM
Looks delicious!
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Comment by Cate O'Malley — April 21, 2009 @ 9:31 AM
I love, love, love bread pudding – this one looks AMAZING!
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Comment by Pam — April 21, 2009 @ 11:42 AM
Whipped cream smiley face? How’d I go through childhood without that?! Nothing wrong with more chocolate though 🙂
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Comment by Caitlin — April 21, 2009 @ 4:53 PM
Wow! Looks yummy. I skipped the dried fruit too – that would have distracted from the chocolate!! 🙂
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Comment by foodlibrarian — April 22, 2009 @ 1:30 PM
Those pictures are so great!! Nice job.
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Comment by pamela — April 22, 2009 @ 6:48 PM
Hehe, I did not add any fruits in mine either. I decided to use cinnamon bread instead and the results were amazing.
I love that first pic! Gimme! Gimme!
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Comment by Kristina — April 23, 2009 @ 9:11 AM
OH!! That looks heavenly. Guess I will have to break down and try.
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Comment by Margaret — April 23, 2009 @ 4:03 PM