White Chocolate Bread Pudding

By michelew7

Ingredients

• 16 slices firm white bread
• 1 quart heavy cream
• 1 1/2 cups whole milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 12 ounces white chocolate, chopped
• 3 large eggs
• 8 large egg yolks

Details

Servings 15
Cooking time 75mins

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut bread into 3/4 inch squares; place on jelly roll pan and bake 15 minutes or until toasted. stirring once.

Grease shallow 3 3/4 quart casserole. In a 4-quart saucepan, heat cream, milk and sugar to boiling over medium high heat. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate.

In a large bowl, whisk eggs and egg yolks until blended; gradually whisk in hot cream mixture.

Place bread in casserole, top with custard, pressing bread into custard.

Cover and refrigerate 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 1 hour or until knife inserted into center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes.