Chocolate Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Name: Chocolate Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce
Prep time: 1 h 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 454 grams unseeded Italian bread; 1 teaspoons cinnamon; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar; 2 larges egg yolks; 2 larges eggs, plus 2 large egg yolks; 158 milliliters heavy cream; 237 milliliters heavy cream; 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder; 473 milliliters milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 340 grams semisweet chocolate, chopped; 177 milliliters sugar; 4 Tbsps unsalted butter, at room temperature; 59 milliliters whiskey

Chocolate Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe makes 8 servings with 838 calories, 14g of protein, and 46g of fat each. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up eggs, cinnamon, semisweet chocolate, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Instructions

Cut bread into 1/2-inch cubes. In a large saucepan, combine cream, sugar and salt and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar.

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Bread

Cream

Sugar

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Add chocolate, cinnamon and espresso powder, let sit for 3 minutes, then whisk until smooth.

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Instant Espresso

Chocolate

Cinnamon

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Whisk

Let cool slightly.

In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, yolks and milk. Slowly whisk in chocolate mixture until well combined.

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Chocolate

Egg Yolk

Egg

Milk

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Whisk

Bowl

Add bread, pressing it down into liquid. Cover and let stand for 2 hours, pressing down occasionally to allow bread to absorb liquid.

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Bread

Preheat oven to 325F. Grease an 11-by-7-inch baking dish with butter or cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Butter

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Oven

Pour bread mixture into dish.

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Bread

Place baking dish in a large roasting pan and add hot water so that it reaches 1 inch up side of baking dish.

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Water

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Bake for about 1 hour, until center of pudding feels firm.

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Oven

Remove from oven, take baking dish out of water bath and let cool on a wire rack for 40 minutes.

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Water

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Make sauce: In a saucepan, combine butter and confectioners' sugar.

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Powdered Sugar

Butter

Sauce

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Sauce Pan

Place over low heat and cook, stirring, until smooth.

Add whiskey.

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Whiskey

Whisking vigorously, add egg yolks. Stir in cream. Raise heat to medium and cook, whisking constantly, until sauce thickens and coats back of a spoon (do not boil).

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Egg Yolk

Cream

Sauce

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Whisk

Remove from heat.

Let cool slightly; serve with bread pudding.

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Bread