Chocolate Chip Portuguese Sweet Bread Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350, and butter a 13x9 baking dish.
• Whisk milk, heavy cream and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Meanwhile scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into milk mixture and add the pods.
• Heat milk/cream mixture to just steaming, but not boiling!
• Whisk eggs and yolks in a large bowl, and gradually add 2 cups of hot milk mixture to the eggs to temper.
• Pour tempered egg mixture into the saucepan with the hot milk.
• Strain mixture to remove any lumps and the vanilla pods.
• Spread bread cubes in prepared dish and sprinkle with the chocolate chips.
• Slowly pour custard over bread, being sure to saturate all of the bread. (If you can, it's nice to let it sit and soak evenly for 1/2 or so).
• Bake in the center of the oven for about 1 hour or until a small knife inserted in the center of the pudding comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degree's. Lightly grease a 13x9 inch baking dish.
• In a large bowl, place bread crumbs.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together 1 1/2 cups cream, milk, 1 cup sugar, butter and eggs; add to bread crumbs, stirring to combine. Let stand for 15 minutes. Stir in chocolate and pecans. Spoon mixture into prepared baking dish. Drizzle with remaining 1/2 cup cream, and sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons sugar; bake for 1 hour, or until center is set.
• Serve warm with either Rum toffee sauce or Chocolate Sauce.

Steps:

• soak the bread, and drain well.
• in a large bowl, mix all ingredients (except the nutmeg) together.
• place in a well greased tin and sprinkle the nutmeg over.
• bake in a moderate oven until you stick a knife in and it comes out clean, about 1/2 an hour.
• eaten as a desert, cold or warm.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Combine cream, milk, and 1/2 cup sugar in a heavy saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium-low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add 1 cup chocolate chips and whisk until melted and smooth.
• Whisk egg and vanilla extract together in a large bowl to blend. Gradually whisk in hot chocolate mixture. Set custard aside to cool, stirring often, for about 10 minutes.
• Add bread cubes and remaining chocolate chips to the custard and toss to coat. Transfer to a 1 1/2-quart shallow oval baking dish. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons sugar over the pudding.
• Bake in the preheated oven until custard thickens and center is just set, about 50 minutes.
• Serve pudding warm, drizzled with warm chocolate sauce.

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar. Whisk in the milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir in the raisins. Generously butter the bread with the softened butter. Submerge the bread in the egg mixture and set aside for a least 20 minutes. Use your hands or a large spoon to break the soaked bread into smaller chunks.
• 2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter a 9x11 inch glass baking dish.
• 3. Transfer the soaked bread to the baking dish and smooth the top. Drizzle with the melted butter.
• 4. Bake in the preheated oven until the top of the pudding puffs and browns and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. 50 minutes to 1 hour. Serve warm or at room temperature topped with the vanilla ice cream. 6-8 servings