Strawberry and White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 10 oz white bread or baguette (or best with brioche!) cut into one inch cubes
- 4 oz granulated sugar
- 5 oz white chocolate chips
- 1 lb fresh strawberries, washed and sliced
Directions
- Preheat oven at 350° F.
- Butter a gratin dish 8x8 and 2 inches deep.
- Whisk together in mixing bowl, milk, cream, eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract.
- Add the bread and let it soak for 5 minutes (baguette will take longer to get soft than brioche or white bread).
- Once bread is soft, add cut strawberries and white chocolate chips. Mix well again. Pour into the baking container.
- Bake in oven at 350°F in a Bain Marie (place your gratin dish in a deeper and larger gratin dish with hot water to create a "Bain Marie"). This technique will distribute the heat from the oven more gently in the gratin dish. Water needs to be at least 3/4 to the top of the bread pudding dish and hot.
- Bake for at least 1 hour and 15 minutes until the mix is "set". Make sure that the center of the pudding is set.
- Cool before serving. If done the day before, warm the pudding up a bit before serving (in the microwave) or not.
- Serve with whipped cream or ice cream (vanilla) and a strawberry coulis or syrup.
