Home Cooking – Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding
Who does not crave a gooey and dark chocolatey bread and butter pudding after catching a glimpse of this Bread Pudding and Chocolate Beer Sauce from Jamie Oliver’s latest book, Jamie’s America? Seeing this recipe reminded me of the awesome and so very decadent Choc B&B pudding by Tim and another recipe which I spotted a while ago which I had my heart set on to try sometime. I decided to take this dessert up to my beach trip even though it is hot, I doubt people will refuse chocolatey goodness ^^! My version of the chocolate bread and butter pudding was inspired by Jaime’s and Karen’s recipes and a lot of winging it as I went so check out their recipes for the ingredients and more detailed methods (sorry I forgot how much I used haha).
Here Comes the Food
Pupu cutting the bread into triangles; look at my speedy whisk action
As with all bread and butter puddings, you need to prepare it a day or two ahead of the intended consumption time to allow every single bit of bread to soak up all the chocolatey goodness. In a large bowl mix in the cocoa powder and sugar with the eggs and whisk until smooth and silky.
Butter milk! How very appropriate!
I think people normally cut off the crusts but I decided to leave them on (because of sheer laziness or a genius plan of adding some extra textures to the pudding, I don’t know which). Line the triangles up so they sightly overlap and then poke the chocolate melts in between slices of bread and scatter around.
Mmmmm creammmm; make sure you get every last bit of that precious precious cream
Whisk in the cream and milk until you get a lovely and smooth mixture.
Now pour half of that creamy mixture ensuring that all of the bread triangles get a good smothering.
Do a second layer of bread, poke chocolate all throughout and pour on the remaining mixture. Cling wrap it up and then refrigerate for a good 24 hours (at least) to allow the infusion of chocolate into bread.
Ta-Da!
Baking the pudding will require about 30-35mins at 180 degrees C. This should result in a beautifully gooey and marshmallowy center and a slightly crusty top. In this version you don’t really have a chocolatey burst until you bite into the chunks of melted chocolate but it is a good balance between the creamy bread and the intensity if the chocolate. I did find that the raisins tended to contrast quite sourly against the rest of the pudding so the next time I try this I would go for plain white bread. As I mentioned before I like leaving the crust on for a denser texture in some bites.
Serve hot with a nice scoop of ice cream mmmmmm
Chocolate bread and butter puddings are a gift from heaven and perfect for any weather in my opinion. I shall have to try the chocolate beer sauce in Jamie’s version next time!
FFichiban
December 14th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
DAAAAAMN! HOW COME I WASNT THERE?!
December 14th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I want this! With chocolate beer sauce!!
December 14th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Yas’ comment is seconded.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Totally loving your first pic! Choc B&B is notoriously hard to shoot and your pics totally rock! You should cook more!!
December 14th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Yum! This look amazing! Love the gooey chocolate..mmm.. now I feel like making it too
December 14th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
My goodness that looks chocolatey good!
December 14th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
zomg that looks so good dude! i want i want!
December 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
This is such winter food but, like you said, how can you turn it down? Looks like it would have been quite nice, regardless of the weather
December 14th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Holymoly…. I licked my laptop screen at that money shot in the first photo! Liquid gold…
December 15th, 2009 at 9:45 am
at first i thought the money shot is yours like it is something you would really do pouring the sauce and let it overflow. Then I noticed it is actually a photo of a photo cut out! u sneaky!
im surprised u didnt add bacon!
December 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Your pudding looks so oozingly good! Must have it with cream AND ice cream.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Arghhhh yeah I don’t care whether it’s cold or hot outside, I want a piece of this after seeing the shot of that scoop of pudding! *drools*
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
Woah woah WOAH!!!! My eyes kept getting bigger and bigger by each photo. Oh man oh man oh man… shouldn’t be looking at this at 1o’clock in the morning, Richard!
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Oh my. That first photos=food porn to the maximum! Damn it now I want some …