Chocolate Bread Pudding with Irish Cream Sauce

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Breads, Italian, French, Puddings, Chocolate, Other Breads, Other Sauces, Quick & Easy
Collections:	St. Patrick's Day
Keywords:	Irish, Cream, eggs, powder, cinnamon, chips, coffee, cocoa, sugar, Vanilla, pecans, milk, light, Brown, heavy, semi-sweet, extract, kahlua, Water, cornstarch, liqueur, flavored, instant, Baileys
Serves:	10 - 12
Prep Time:	30 Min
Cook Time:	1 Hr

Ingredients

BREAD PUDDING:
1 lb	french or italian bread (1 loaf), cut into cubes
3 c	milk
1/4 c	heavy cream, cold
1/2 c	kahlua (coffee flavored liqueur)
1 c	granulated sugar
2 Tbsp	instant coffee powder
1 c	light brown sugar, packed
1/4 c	cocoa powder (i use dark cocoa powder)
1 Tbsp	vanilla extract
2 tsp	pure almond extract
1 1/2 tsp	cinnamon, ground
6 lg	eggs, lightly beaten
12 oz	semi-sweet mini chocloate chips
1 c	pecans, in pieces
IRISH CREAM SAUCE:
2 c	heavy cream, cold
1/4 c	bailey's irish cream liqueur
1/4 c	sugar
3 Tbsp	cornstarch
	water, cold (enough to dissolve cornstarch)
1 tsp	vanilla extract

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Kimmi Knippel (Sweet_Memories)

Cooked to Perfection

Cullowhee, NC (pop. 41,052)

KimmiK

Member Since Apr 2011

Kimmi's Notes:

My Queen...Paula Deen!

Kahlua, Bailey's & Chocolate....enough said?

I made this dessert for my family while we were back in IL. My uncle just happened to stop by & afforded him some dessert, of course said yes. He has been ranting & raving about it ever since. He said, if he ever makes it out to NC, I'd have to make it for him. They (Mom's 3 brothers) arrive tonight. Guess what I'm making.....

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Lightly grease 13 x 9" baking dish. Place the bread in the baking dish.

In a extra large bowl, whisk together the milk, cream, kahlua.

In a medium bowl, combine the both sugars, cocoa powder & instant coffee & mix well. Add this to the milk mixture & whisk to combine.

In the same bowl as sugars/cocoa powder was in (it's ok if there is cocoa residual - it goes together anyway), beat the eggs. Add both extracts, cinnamon to the beaten eggs. Combine the egg mixture with the milk mixture & mix well.

Pour the mixture evenly over the bread cubes; let stand, pressing bread down occasionally, for at least 20 minutes, or until the bread has absorbed most of the milk mixture.

Sprinkle chocolate chips & pecans evenly over bread pudding.

Bake the pudding for 1 hour, or until set; a knife inserted into the center of the pudding should come out clean.

IRISH CREAM SAUCE:

Heat heavy cream, Irish Cream liqueur & sugar. Heat about 2 minutes. Meanwhile, mix cornstarch with about 1 Tbsp of cold water. Stir into the cream mixture & heat until thickened (about 2 minutes more). Add vanilla.

NOTE: You can make this up to 3 days in advance.

Serve the pudding warm or cold with the irish cream sauce.