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Chocolate bread and butter pudding

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Chocolate bread and butter pudding

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Ingredients

  • 200g (7oz) good quality milk chocolate
  • 75g (3oz) butter
  • 250g (8oz) (or about 10 slices) white bread
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 25g (1oz) caster sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 600ml (1 pint) milk
  • cocoa powder and icing sugar for dusting
Serves: 6 Preparation: 25 Cook Time: 60 Total Time: 85min whats this
 

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to , , Gas Mark
  2. Lightly grease the sides of an oven proof dish measuring approx cm x cm. Break up the chocolate and put into a heatproof bowl set over a pan of lightly simmering water with g (z) of butter and leave until melted. Lightly stir.
  3. Cut the crusts from the bread and slice into triangles. Arrange approximately half of the slices overlapping in the dish and spread with the melted chocolate sauce. Arrange the remaining bread overlapping to form a second layer.
  4. Melt the remaining butter in a saucepan and remove from the heat. Beat the eggs with the ground cinnamon, sugar and the seeds from the Vanilla Pod, add the butter and milk and stir thoroughly. Spoon the mixture over the bread so that all of the bread is saturated. Allow to stand for hour.
  5. Bake the pudding in the oven for - minutes until the custard has set and the bread is golden brown.
  6. Dust with cocoa powder and icing sugar before serving.

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