Hot Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding

Hot Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding

Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding

Warm, soft, chocolatey, beautifully comforting — and exactly the kind of dessert that makes you want seconds before you have finished the first bowl.

Bread and butter pudding is one of those wonderfully old-fashioned desserts that deserves far more attention.

And naturally, we decided to add Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate to it.

The result is a rich chocolate custard soaked into layers of buttery bread, with melted chocolate tucked between the slices and a beautifully soft centre underneath a slightly crisp top.

Serve it warm with vanilla ice cream or custard and things become very serious, very quickly.

Ingredients

  • 8 thick slices of white bread, brioche or croissants
  • Butter for spreading
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 cups milk
  • ½ cup Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate powder
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, optional
  • Pinch of salt
  • ½ cup chocolate chips or chopped chocolate

For Serving

  • Vanilla ice cream
  • Warm custard
  • Whipped cream
  • Chocolate sauce
  • Chocolate shavings
  • Extra Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate powder for dusting

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C.

2. Lightly grease a medium-sized ovenproof baking dish.

3. Spread a thin layer of butter over each slice of bread.

4. Cut the bread into triangles or smaller pieces and arrange them slightly overlapping in the baking dish.

If you are using croissants or brioche, simply tear or slice them into generous pieces and arrange them in the dish.

5. Scatter the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate between the layers of bread.

Make the Rescue Roast® Chocolate Custard

6. Add the eggs, milk, Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate powder, brown sugar, vanilla essence, cinnamon and salt to a large jug or mixing bowl.

7. Whisk thoroughly until everything is smooth and well combined.

8. Slowly pour the chocolate custard mixture over the bread.

Try to pour it evenly so that every piece gets some chocolate goodness.

9. Gently press the bread down with the back of a spoon so that it begins absorbing the custard.

10. Leave the pudding to stand for approximately 15 minutes before baking.

This gives the bread time to soak up all that Rescue Roast® chocolate custard.

Into the Oven

Bake for approximately 35–40 minutes.

The top should be slightly crisp and golden around the edges while the centre remains soft and custardy.

Allow it to stand for around 5–10 minutes before serving.

The Brioche Upgrade

Ordinary white bread works beautifully in this recipe.

But if you want to turn it into something especially indulgent, use brioche or croissants.

The buttery texture absorbs the chocolate custard beautifully and creates an incredibly soft, rich pudding.

Is it necessary?

No.

Is it a very good idea?

Absolutely.

Make It Extra Chocolatey

If the phrase “too much chocolate” does not make much sense to you, try adding:

  • Milk chocolate chunks
  • Dark chocolate chips
  • White chocolate pieces
  • Chocolate spread between the bread slices
  • Mini marshmallows
  • Chopped hazelnuts

You can also drizzle a little chocolate sauce over the pudding just before serving.

Hot Chocolate & Marshmallow Bread Pudding

For a proper hot-chocolate-inspired version, scatter mini marshmallows between the bread layers with the chocolate chips.

Add a few more to the top during the final 5 minutes of baking.

They will soften, toast slightly and create little gooey marshmallow pockets throughout the pudding.

Rescue Roast® Mocha Bread & Butter Pudding

We could hardly resist adding coffee to this one.

Replace approximately ½ cup of the milk with strong brewed Rescue Roast® coffee.

This transforms the chocolate custard into a rich mocha flavour that works beautifully with the buttery bread.

Serve it with vanilla ice cream and a freshly brewed Rescue Roast® coffee on the side.

There are worse ways to spend an afternoon.

How to Serve It

This pudding is best served warm.

Our favourite options include:

  • Vanilla ice cream slowly melting over the top
  • Warm custard
  • Fresh whipped cream
  • Chocolate sauce
  • A dusting of Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate powder

If you happen to combine vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce and warm custard...

We will not object.

A Brilliant Way to Use Leftover Bread

This recipe is also a fantastic way to use bread that is beginning to go slightly stale.

In fact, bread that is a day or two old often works even better because it absorbs the chocolate custard particularly well.

Less food waste.

More chocolate pudding.

Everybody wins.

250 g or 500 g?

Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate is available in both 250 g and 500 g bags.

The 250 g bag is perfect for enjoying your favourite steaming mug of hot chocolate and experimenting with a few Academy recipes.

But if your Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate has now become fudge, truffles, rocky road, cakes, milkshakes, baked oats, S'mores Dip and bread pudding...

The 500 g bag is beginning to look like very sensible kitchen equipment.

Comfort Food, Rescue Roast® Style

Buttery bread.

Warm chocolate custard.

Melted chocolate hiding between the layers.

A scoop of vanilla ice cream slowly melting over the top.

We may have just found another very good reason not to use all your Rescue Roast® Hot Chocolate in a mug.

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