Chocolate-Walnut Bread Pudding with White Chocolate Sauce

Title:
Chocolate-Walnut Bread Pudding with White Chocolate Sauce

Yield:
12 Servings

Categories:
Desserts,
Bread,
Pudding




Ingredients:





     6 c  Cubed stale Italian bread


     1 c  Chopped toasted walnuts


     4 c  Milk


     3 tb Unsalted butter


   3/4 c  Packed light brown sugar


   1/8 ts Salt


     4 oz Semisweet chocolate


     1 oz Unsweetened baking chocolate


     4    Eggs


     2 ts Vanilla





---------------------------WHITE
CHOCOLATE SAUCE---------------------------


     1 c  Heavy cream


     2 tb Granulated sugar


   1/8 ts Salt


     2 ts Cornstarch; dissolved in 1


          -tablespoon cold water


     3 oz White chocolate


   1/4 ts Vanilla beans





 Heat oven to 350. Grease shallow 2-quart baking dish with butter. Add bread


 and walnuts to dish. Combine 2 cups milk, butter, sugar, salt in saucepan.


 Bring to simmer, stir to melt butter. Remove from heat. Add chocolate; let


 stand 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Whisk eggs, vanilla and remaining milk


 in bowl. Whisk into chocolate mixture; pour over bread, Bake for 35 to 40


 minutes or until set in center. WHITE CHOCOLATE SAUCE: Bring cream, sugar


 and salt in saucepan to simmer. Stir in cornstarch, simmer, stirring until


 thickened, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in white chocolate and


 vanilla until smooth. Serve with warm or room temperature pudding. Typed by


 Ethel Snyder 
Date: July 24, 1997


 


 Recipe by: Family Circle magazine -- 2/18/97 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1


 #689 by essie49@juno.com (Ethel R Snyder) on Jul 25, 1997