If
there was a cooking class called Desserts
101 (which there probably is!), surely the first dessert students would learn would be Chocolate croissant bread and butter
pudding. An extremely delicious dessert which took quite a while to cook but minimal time to
prepare.
I
started off by chopping up dark chocolate and put half of it into the bottom of
a large dish. I then cut six croissants in half (length ways) and arranged
them in the dish before scattering the remainder of the chocolate on top. Into
a bowl then went 4 eggs, cream, milk, caster sugar, vanilla extract and a pinch
of salt. I whisked up using an electric mix and poured into the dish with the
croissants. Finally, I sprinkled caster sugar over the top of the croissants
and let the dish sit for 5 minutes and it ended up looking this this…
The
pudding cooked in the oven for 45 minutes and, when ready, I gave it a wee
sprinkling of icing sugar – to hide the slightly ‘overdone’ bits, of course!
The verdict…
Dear
Husband loved this dessert. He had to have a second helping with another cup of
tea so that’s always a good indication of how good a recipe is. He said that it
was really delicious and, therefore, 10 marks out of 10. Once again, it’s
amazing how such an easy recipe can be so good. Another great thing about the
recipe is that the croissants don’t have to be really fresh and are fine even
if they are stale. I really liked this recipe because of its simplicity – there
really is little room for error; just don’t forget to check it near the
40-minute mark. The ingredients used were things that I tend to have in stock
anyway and I always have croissants in the cupboard at the weekend. This
pudding has made The List and I’ve now started to make notes on my cookbook
about when each recipe would be a good time to make. With that in mind, this
recipe is going down as a good dessert for wintery Sunday evenings but
thankfully, today was far from that as we enjoyed yet another warm summer breeze
in Donegal. Hopefully, the weather will be as nice this time next week in
Croker!
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