Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Bread Pudding
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Lauren at Upper East Side Chronicle. It’s Dorie’s Four Star Chocolate Bread Pudding.
I’m a bread pudding lover.. but this week I discovered that I’m not a chocolate bread pudding lover. I much prefer the toasty, creamy, cinnamon-y flavor of a classic bread pudding.. I feel like the chocolate and the bread didn’t match.. I’d rather have a piece of cake if I’m going to indulge in chocolate.
I made 1/3 of the recipe, which filled two small mugs and two ramekins. I used some homemade no-knead bread (white) and all 2% milk, no cream. My version came out to about 240 calories per serving.. not too bad for a bowl full of bread and custard!
Don’t let me discourage you from giving this a try.. maybe a sweeter, buttery bread and the extra cream make a difference!
*Find the recipe here.
**Tuesdays with Dorie is a group of bloggers baking through Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours.
I love that you made this version healthy! Sorry you weren’t a fan, though!
Maybe if I had made a creamy cinnamony bread pudding I’d have liked it more.
I’m more of a vanilla custard bread pudding person myself, but I did enjoy this chocolate version. I added chocolate sauce in one helping and cream anglaise in another. Both were wonderful, but I definitely preferred it warmed up 🙂
Your bread pudding looks fantastic. I love the way you baked it in little cups. Too bad it wasn’t to your liking.
Sorry you weren’t a fan of the chocolate version. It looks really cute in those cups!
I agree with you, I think it makes a difference to some degree with the type of bread you use. I don’t know what kind of chocolate you used or like but that also may have changed the flavor. challah or brioche are great little buttery sponges and so its yummy. Glad you made it but sorry you didn’t love it. At least it was low-cal. Great Job! It looks beautiful.
AmyRuth
I prefer a classic bread pudding too, even though I love chocolate. It looks like yours turned out really nice though.
Glad to know how much 1/3 recipe will make. Yours looks good. Sorry you didn’t like it. Maybe with a different bread…..