Rich Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 284 ml double cream
• 300 ml milk
• 200 g good quality dark chocolate, chopped
• 6 egg yolks
• 100 g soft brown sugar
• 75 g dried fruit (optional) or 75 g nuts (optional)
• 225 g croissants, sliced into 2cm thick slices
• 125 ml fresh cream, for serving

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 150°c.
• 2 grease a 20cm x 30cm oven-proof dish and scatter with the dried fruit / nuts (if being used).
• 3 place the double cream and milk into a pan and bring to the boil. remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate until melted. set aside to cool.
• 4 in a bowl, beat together the egg yolks and sugar until smooth. stir into the cooled chocolate-cream mixture. stir until smooth.
• 5 dip the croissant slices into the chocolate sauce and then layer them in the oven-proof dish, overlapping the slices as you go.
• 6 place the dish into a roasting pan and fill the roasting pan to 2/3 full with boiling water.
• 7 bake for 25 - 30 minutes until the sauce has thickened.
• 8 whip the 125ml cream and use to serve with the pudding.