Warm center chocolate, chocolate bread pudding

4 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
2ouncesMelted butter
4largesEggs, slightly beaten
1cupBrown sugar
3cupsHeavy cream
1cupMilk
1teaspoonVanilla
½teaspoonCinnamon
1cupMelted milk chocolate
6cupsDay old bread
121- ounce cubes of dark
Chocolate
1cupWhite chocolate sauce (in a
Squeeze bottle)
Whipped cream in pastry bag
With star tip
Fresh mint
Powdered sugar in shaker
Cocoa powder in shaker

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F and grease twelve muffin tins.

In a mixing bowl, whisk the butter, eggs, sugar, cream, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and chocolate together. Fold in the bread and blend thoroughly. Pour ½ cup of the mixture into each muffin tin. Press one of the chocolate cubes into the center of each pudding. Bake for 35 minutes or until the pudding is set. Remove from the oven. Invert one of the bread puddings onto a plate. Drizzle with the white chocolate sauce. Garnish with the whipped cream, mint, powdered sugar, and cocoa powder.

Yield: 12 servings

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