Chocolate Bread Pudding

Emily's teacher had a fun idea this month.  Each child was selected to be "chef of the day" and on that day they had to bring in a dish that they made all by themselves.  

"All by myself Mom, that means ALL by myself."  

Yes Em, I get it.  

"Like you can't help me at all, I have to do everything!"  

Yeah honey, I'm familiar with the phrase.  

"The only thing you can do is put it in and out of the oven."  

Rodger Dodger.  I won't help you at all.  

Sheesh, where is all this independence when it's time to make her bed in the morning?

Her choice was Emma's bread pudding.  One of her all-time most favorite desserts ever.  Love it...rock and roll. 

But wait...if you call in the next 30 minutes, in addition to bringing in your dish, you can take photos of yourself making it, print them out, put them on a poster with the recipe and step by step directions.  Why do these cute things always have a catch or as I like to call it...mom homework?

Yeah,  "all by myself"  Ha.  I suppose you are going to drive to Target with your flash drive to get the photos, buy the poster board with your allowance and type up the recipe huh?  Ha.

The glitch in this plan is that her "chef" day was a Tuesday.  My fellow mom pals are freaking out right now, the rest of you will catch on in a sec.  Yep, we're going to get all our regular homework done, eat dinner, take a bath and THEN make a deluxe chocolate bread pudding, take photos print them out (ok, maybe on my computer but you know it will run out of ink in the middle) and make a poster.  Of course, hitting the sac at 8:00 with our obligatory 20 min of reading.  Um hmm

Well, luckily this aint my first rodeo so here we are, making our dessert on Saturday.  Sunday = photos and poster.   Monday we quickly made a triple batch (15 eggs!) of this yummy stuff and were ready for bed on time :)  Easy breezy.

The happy chef

Good enough to eat!

Her classmates thought so too...not a single ounce was left and I heard from everyone including the Principal that it was delish!  Here's the recipe if you want to give it a try.

Emma’s Chocolate Bread Pudding

Ingredients:

                                                                                           

5 Slices of bread

¾ Cup of sugar

5 Eggs

1 ¾ Cup milk

2 T. butter

¾ Cup chocolate chips

1 ½ tsp. Vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350*

Grease baking dish with butter

Butter each bread slice with the 2 T. butter

Break up bread into 1” pieces and place into prepared baking dish

Add chocolate chips to bread (evenly dispersed)

Beat eggs and sugar together in a bowl

Scald milk in pan until a film forms on top

Cool milk slightly and add vanilla

Pour milk mixture into egg mixture and stir

Pour over bread and chocolate chips

Bake for 40 – 45 minutes

Cool and enjoy!