Chocolate Bread Pudding

Original Post:http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2015/01/breakfast-bread-puddingaka-chocolate.html

Makes 12 individual servings

Ingredients

4-5 cups chopped bread pieces

2 bosc pears

1 egg

2 tablespoon salted butter

¼ cup sugar

4 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon coffee

1 cup milk

½ teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ cup rum soaked raisins

¼ cup chocolate chips (recommended)

Sprinkle of coarse sea salt and brown sugar and cocoa powder

Greedy tips:

• I strongly recommend adding ¼ or ½ cup of chocolate chips to the batter before baking, so you really get a nice bite of chocolate in the mix.
• I didn’t have any cupcake liners so I made these from parchment, be sure to spray them with cooking oil, a few of my bread puddings were a bit hard to remove from the paper.
• I specify Bosc pears because they have a grainy texture that I think works well. However use any pear you have available
• Depending on the type of bread you use you may need up to a 1/2 cup more milk. Dense breads like hard dough bread require more liquid to saturate it. The bread i used with a medium density wheat french bread so 1 cup of milk worked.