Chocolate Bread Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cubed
• 2 cups 2% low-fat milk
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons vanilla
• 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 13 slices texas toast thick bread, stale and cut into 1 inch cubes

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees; coat a 9 inch spring form pan with softened butter.
• 2 melt chocolate chips with brown sugar and butter. whisk.
• 3 combine milk, eggs, vanilla, espresso powder and salt. add bread cubes.
• 4 fold chocolate over bread mixture.
• 5 transfer to prepared pan and bake for 1 hour, or until the center springs back when gently pressed.
• 6 cool for 15 minutes, remove sides from the pan and slice.
• 7 recipe suggests serving with toppings, but sprinkled with a little powdered sugar is perfect!