Bread and Chocolate Pudding

Do you like bread?  Do you like chocolate? Then you will love Bread and Chocolate Pudding. The pudding part of this dessert is so minuscule; it's the bread and chocolate that really shine.  I dearly love my dearly beloved, and he LOVES chocolate. I decided to make this dish extra chocolatey, just for him.  I add some ... well ... you'll see:

That's right ... chocolate milk!  I mixed whole milk and chocolate milk together and reduced the sugar quite a bit.  It was a great success!

I started by cubing some seriously stale and frozen hot dog buns. It's OK to use stale and frozen in this case because the bread soaks up the pudding part like crazy!  Just think of it as thirsty bread.

Chocolate chips were sprinkled over the thirsty bread. Sprinkled generously.

Then I made the custard: egg, milk, sugar, a pinch of salt, and vanilla extract.

The custard is then poured over the bread and chocolate and then it goes into the oven!  Assembling this bread pudding takes about ten minutes and then it bakes for about 30 minutes ... then it's time to EAT!  It only seemed right to serve this chocolate dish with chocolate .... ice cream!!

In the words of my dearly beloved, "Fantastic."

See other variations of Moosewood Bread Pudding here:

Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding 
Banana Bread Pudding

Banana Bread

Some of my favorite moments are ones spent all alone; a hot mug of milky tea, Harry Nilsson crooning in the background, creating a kitchen sink of a recipe like Banana Bread.

There's a lot going on here folks: a sesame seed coated loaf pan, super ripe bananas soaked in strong coffee, vanilla extract, almond extract, orange zest, and a beautiful variety of spices.

When I told Charlie I was making banana bread, he said he was excited for the chocolate chips! (Homedude LOVES chocolate). I realized the recipe didn't call for them, but it appears that even Ms. Mollie herself likes to add them, so I did too.