This strawberry chocolate chip bread pudding is one of those recipes that is really fun to serve for dessert if you have people over for dinner. It’s an unexpected, delicious surprise. No one expects to have chocolate and strawberries in their bread pudding. But they’re delighted when they see it! This is an impressive dessert to bake for a sweet ending to dinner.
Ingredients needed:
loaf of challah bread or egg bread unsalted butter fresh strawberries white sugar chocolate chips half and half cream eggs and egg yolks vanilla extract
How to make Strawberry Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post. Butter slices of challah bread. Toast them in the oven. Toss strawberries with sugar. Set a large roasting pan half-filled with hot water on the middle oven rack to act as a water bath. Trim the crusts off the bread and cut each slice of bread diagonally in half into triangles. Butter a 9×12-inch baking dish. Line the sides of the baking dish with the pieces of bread, points up. Line the bottom of the dish with more of the bread. Stand the remaining bread, points up, wedged between the bottom slices. Scatter strawberries onto the bread and around the baking dish. Scatter half of the chocolate chips over the bread and between the slices. Heat the half-and-half and sugar, stirring to dissolve the sugar, until the mixture is hot but not boiling. Whisk together the whole eggs and egg yolks. Whisk in the vanilla. Whisk the hot mixture into the eggs 1/2 cup at a time, gradually warming up the egg mixture and not ‘cooking’ it. Pour the custard through a fine sieve into the baking dish. Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips on top.
Set the dish in the roasting pan in the oven and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the custard is just set. Remove from the water bath and serve warm, at room temperature, or chilled.
This is a pretty rich and delicious bread pudding, so it’s fine to serve it without anything on top. But you can certainly add a dollop of whipped cream on top, if you’d like. Enjoy!
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