Friday, February 4, 2011

Slow Cooker Chocolate Bread Pudding

Slow Cooker Chocolate Bread Pudding

Sometimes, a dessert is born out of "extra" ingredients.  I had a leftover bag of dried bread cubes in the freezer and googled "bread cubes" along with "chocolate" and "slow cooker".  I got many 'hits' and combined a few different recipes to create this kid-approved yummy dessert.  This warm, gooey dessert was a perfect end to another very cold winter day.  Of course we topped it off with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.


Ingredients:

6 cups Dried Bread Cubes or leftover day old bread
4 cups whole milk (or 3 cups milk + 1 cup cream)
4 eggs
2 Tbs. butter, melted
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
1-1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup Skor bits (optional)

Sauce:

1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine


Directions:

Spray slow cooker with cooking spray.  Place bread cubes in slow cooker. Mix together milk with eggs, butter, vanilla extract and sugar. Pour over French bread in slow cooker.

Fold in chocolate chips.

Cook on High for 2 hours.

At end of cooking time, mix together vanilla, water, brown sugar and butter in small pan on stove top and bring to a quick boil, removing immediately after sauce comes to a boil.

Pour over cooked slow cooker bread pudding and remove to individual serving dishes.  Can also be served with vanilla ice cream or whipping cream, sprinkled with icing sugar.



My slow cooker...  large capacity, removable liner.  A busy mom's dream!

The chocolate bread pudding before cooking.  Forgot to take a picture of the end result but YUMMY!

E-man's (6 yrs old) picture of a CANADIAN snowman!



T-man's (4 yrs old) picture of a 'very cold' CANADIAN snowman!

Reeg's playing in the Tupperware Drawer...  She  is showing me "my cookies".

Love,
Twin B
xoxoxo

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