Espresso Eggnog Bread Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 loaf brioche bread (3/4 pound) or 1 loaf unsliced bread (3/4 pound)
• 4 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
• 1 (32 ounce) container eggnog
• 2 cups half-and-half
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 4 teaspoons instant espresso powder
• 6 eggs
• 2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
• confectioners' sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 grease 13" by 9" baking dish.
• 3 cut bread into 1 inch chunks.
• 4 coarsely chop chocolate.
• 5 in baking dish, toss bread and chocolate.
• 6 in large bowl, with wire whisk, beat eggnog, half and half, sugar, coffee powder, and eggs until well mixed.
• 7 pour eggnog mixture over bread and chocolate.
• 8 dot with butter.
• 9 set baking dish in large roasting pan and place on oven rack.
• 10 fill roasting pan with hot water to come halfway up side of baking dish.
• 11 bake bread pudding 1 hour or until knife inserted in center of pudding comes out clean.
• 12 sprinkle with confections' sugar.
• 13 serve pudding warm, as is or topped with ice cram.