Bread Pudding Recipes With Chocolate

This chocolate bread pudding is the ultimate dessert for the chocolate lovers with triple the chocolate and triple the pleasure! This upgraded bread pudding recipe combines buttery brioche bread, rich chocolate custard and chopped chocolate into one decadent dessert all drizzled with chocolate ganache. As the bread pudding bakes, the custard soaks into the pillowy bread, the chopped chocolate melts into fudgy pockets and the crowning ganache pools in the crevices. The resulting chocolate bread pudding tastes like a heavenly pan of warm fudgy brownies, lush and creamy with a golden, tender crisp top. Dive into the warm bread pudding fresh out of the oven or top with raspberries, whipped cream, or ice cream, because there’s no wrong way to eat this chocolate bread pudding – except to not eat it at all.

Raise your hand if you love chocolate desserts! Chocolate is the rich, indulgent treat perfect for special occasions or to treat yourself just because. Some reader favorites include chocolate lava cakes, chocolate raspberry cake, German chocolate cheesecake, chocolate éclair cake and chocolate mousse cake.

After I showed a snippet of making this bread pudding recipe on my IG stories, my DMs blew up! So, without further ado, I’m excited to share this chocolate bread pudding recipe with you! This bread pudding is an easy Mother’s Day dessert – or dare I say breakfast? – that anyone can make! It’s slightly crisped on the edges, giving way to a luxuriously creamy, chocolaty and oh-so irresistible center.

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And if you’re not sure you like bread pudding, let me put your mind at ease. I didn’t know I loved bread pudding. I had long harbored the misconception that bread pudding was just soggy bread. I was

Wrong. It wasn’t until forkfuls of dreamy bread pudding at a restaurant that my misconception vanished and its place was filled with the regret for my lost opportunities of glorious bread pudding. So, please don’t make my same mistake – make this chocolate bread pudding!

Bread pudding is much like an upgraded French toast, with the warm, custard-soaked bread, soft in the middle and crunchy around the edges. It’s often served at fancy restaurants, but this sinfully luxurious, rich dessert is the ideal make-at home dessert because it’s:

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And if you need one more reason to make this bread pudding recipe – my foodie critic husband was obsessed! “100 out of 10.” I’ll just leave that right there.

Sweet bread pudding is an elegant dessert that hails from humble origins (see below), but is now featured at upscale, trendy restaurants all over the world.Sweet bread pudding has stood the test of time because it’s so decadent, rich and fabulous – but so simple! It transforms cubed stale bread and an effortless custard into an exquisite baked dessert that practically makes itself. To make, a sweetened custard made of half and half, sugar and eggs is combined with stale bread in a baking dish then baked until soft and creamy with a tender crisp top. It is often served with vanilla, praline or bourbon sauce – but in this recipe, it’s all about the glorious ganache!

Bread pudding is extremely versatile as seen in this chocolate bread pudding recipe in which melted chocolate and cocoa powder is added to the custard, but most often, it contains raisins and nuts and spices such ascinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. It can also contain other fruits such as apples, cranberries, oranges, and raspberries. Moral of the story, pour custard over stale bread with whatever mix-ins your heart desires, and magic happens.

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Today, bread pudding can be found on the menu of the trendiest restaurants, but it was originally invented to use up old, stale bread! Bread pudding can be traced back as early 11th and 12th centuries, where frugal cooks gave leftover stale bread a second chance at greatness. Instead of letting the stale bread go to waste, they poured custard over top to soften the bread. In 13th century England, this reinvention of leftover bread became known as “poor man’s pudding.”

, published in 1728, was likely the first cookbook to include a traditional bread pudding recipe. I find the account fascinating: “Take a two penny loaf, and a pound of fresh butter; spread it in very thin slices, as to eat; cut them off as you spread them, and stone half a pound of raisins, and wash a pound of currants; then put puff-paste at the bottom of a dish, and lay a row of your bread and butter, and strew a handful of currants, a few raisins, and some little bits of butter, and so do till your dish is full; then boil three pints of cream and thicken it when cold with the yolks of ten eggs, a grated nutmeg, a little salt, near half a pound of sugar, and some orange flower-water; pour this in just as the pudding is going into the oven.”

Bread pudding should be soft, creamy and custardy, but not soggy. To achieve this texture, technically you can use any somewhat stale, thick bread,

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Texture, you have two choices: brioche and challah, although French bread can also work. Of these options, I believebrioche makesthe bestbread pudding. I recently discussed these bread types in my stuffed French toast recipe, and as luck would have it, they boast the same requirements! Here’s the breakdown:

Brioche is a classic French bread that bakes up golden, soft, and pillowy. It can usually be found by the loaf in the bakery section of the grocery store or in pre-sliced loaves in the bread aisle. For this bread pudding recipe, use a briocheloafand slice it into thick slices between ¾ and 1 inch thick.If you can’t get your hands on a whole loaf, then a pre-sliced loaf can also work.

Brioche is ideal for bread pudding because it’s extravagantly rich, eggy and buttery, known as aViennoiserie, which just means it’s made from a leavened yeast dough, like a croissant. These factors result in an extra soft, fluffy bread ideal for soaking up the custard with enough structure so it doesn’t fall apart. Additionally, brioche boasts a sweet, buttery flavor, which only makes your chocolate bread pudding experience that much more fabulous and is what truly elevates it above the rest.

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Challah is the second-best option for bread pudding. It’s a Kosher loaf of braidedbread made of eggs, water, flour, yeast and salt. Challah will be located in the bakery section of your grocery store. Cut the loaf into 1-inch slices.

Challah makes fantastic chocolate bread pudding because it’s loaded with more eggs and butter than your average bread and soaks up the egg mixture very well while maintaining its structure. The reason it’s the second choice for bread pudding after brioche is it’s not as sweet and also a little denser and drier, still good, just not

A long, wide French Loaf, not to be confused with a thin, long French baguette, is an okay option for bread pudding, but is missing the buttery sweet flavor and fluffiness of brioche and will be denser and chewier when baked. French bread is hard and crusty on the outside which gives it structure with a light and soft crumb which adeptly soaks up the egg mixture. Because French bread is denser than brioche, you’ll want to soak it for a little longer in the egg mixture so it has time to really soak up the mixture.

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You can make gluten free bread pudding by using gluten free bread! Whole Foods carries Canyon Bakehouse Gluten-Free Bread in the frozen section (thaw first) or onAmazon here.I have also heard good things aboutUdi’s Gluten Free Bread.

Chocolate bread pudding requires a few simple ingredients to create the mouthwatering soft, sweet and creamy inside and buttery, crispy outside.Here’s what you’ll need:

Baking chocolate is cooled, hardened chocolate liquor with a high percentage of cocoa butter because it’s intended to be baked with and therefore melts beautifully for baking and for ganache.

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If you wouldlike to substitute baking chocolate for chocolate chips, you will need to use high quality chocolate chips with a higher percentage of cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is important because it comes from fermented, roasted dried cocoa beans and is where the cocoa flavor, aroma and texture comes from. When selecting chocolate, check the label for cocoa butter; the higher the percentage of cocoa butter, the better the chocolate. This translates into the tangible qualities of richer flavor, aroma, and better melting ability.

I recommend Guittard or Ghirardelli brand chocolate chips. Many other chocolate brands contain less cocoa butter and will not melt as seamlessly and can leave you with stubborn chocolate pieces.

Now to the main event! The process of making the chocolate bread pudding is quick and easy (watch the video) and takes far less time than actually letting the bread pudding rest! Here’s how:

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It’s important to not overbake the bread pudding or you will dry out the custard and it won’t be as creamy. Instead, we want to bake the bread pudding until the custard is creamy but set. To test for doneness, insert a toothpick in the center