Chocolate Bread Pudding with Spiced Cream

Title:
Chocolate Bread Pudding with Spiced Cream

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Morning,
America




Ingredients:





     1 ts Unsalted butter


     4 lg Eggs


     1 c  Firmly packed light brown


          -sugar


   1/2 ts Ground cinnamon


   1/8 ts Freshly grated nutmeg


     1 ts Pure vanilla extract


     1 c  Semisweet chocolate chips;


          -melted


   1/4 c  Grand Marnier or other


          -orange-flavored liqueur


     2 c  Half-and-half


     8 sl Day-old white bread; crusts


          -removed and cut into


          -1/2-inch cubes (about 4


          -cups)


     2 c  Semisweet chocolate chips


          Spiced Cream; see recipe






 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.


 


 2. Grease a 6-cup (9 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 2 3/4-inch) loaf pan with butter.


 


 3. Whisk the eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, melted chocolate and


 Grand Marnier together in a large mixing bowl until very smooth. Add the


 half-and-half and mix well. Add the bread and let the mixture sit for 30


 minutes, stirring occasionally.


 


 4. Pour half of the mixture into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the top with


 the unmelted chocolate chips. Pour the remaining bread mixture over the


 chocolate chips. Bake until the pudding is set in the center, about 55


 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes.


 


 5. To serve, cut the pudding into 1-inch-thick slices. Top with the spiced


 cream.


 


 Yield: 8-10 servings


 


 Busted by Barb on 2/20/98


 


 Recipe by: Emeril Lagasse


 


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "abprice@wf.net" 
on Mar 22,


 1998