White Chocolate Bread Pudding Will Cause World Peace

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Recipe from the Palace Cafe: Claims to serve 8, but halving the recipe has served about 8 of my Oregon Besties, so those must be ginormous servings!

For the bread pudding:

• 3 cups heavy whipping cream
• 10 ounces white chocolate
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 8 egg yolks
• 1 loaf French bread, cut into one inch cubes or into 1/4 inch slices
  

Heat the cream in a double boiler and add the white chocolate; when the chocolate is melted, remove from heat.

In a double boiler, heat the milk, sugar, eggs and egg yolks until warm. Blend the egg mixture into the cream and chocolate mixture.

Place the bread in an oven-safe dish. Pour 1/2 of the mixture over the bread and let settle for a while, making sure the bread soaks up all the mixture. Top with the rest of the mixture. Cover and bake at 275 degrees for 1 hour. Remove the cover and bake for an additional 15 minutes until the top is golden brown.

For the white chocolate sauce:

• 8 ounces white chocolate
• 3 ounces heavy cream

Gently melt the white chocolate in a double boiler. Remove from heat and mix in heavy cream. Spoon over bread pudding.

You could use any kind of chocolate for the chocolate sauce. Or use some Irish Cream or White Chocolate Irish Cream with the cream to spike it a bit.