Ingredients
- 1 loaf brioche bread or 1 loaf challah or 1 loaf other sweet bread
- cut into 1 inch dice
- 4 ounces butter
- melted
- 16 ounces good quality white chocolate
- chunked
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 23 cup sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
- split
- 8 large eggs
- whisked
Instructions
- Place diced bread into a 2 quart baking dish and drizzle with melted butter.
- Toss chunked white chocolate with bread cubes.
- Bring milk, cream, sugar and vanilla bean to a boil over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
- Stirring constantly, slowly add hot mixture to eggs.
- Do not whisk.
- Skim foam from custard.
- Strain custard over bread and chocolate.
- Let stand for 10 minutes so that bread soaks up custard.
- Place baking dish in another larger pan adding 1 inch of hot water to larger dish.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes until custard is set and bread is golden.
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