Chocolate Bread Pudding

Ingredients

• Bread- 4 Cups Day old Bread, cubed or torn
• Milk- 4 cups
• Eggs- 4
• Cocoa Powder- 3 Heaping tablespoons
• Sugar- 3/4 to 1 cup
• Vanilla- 1 - 2 teaspoons
• Cinnamon- pinch if desired- optional

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Scald milk by heating it up until skin forms on top.
3. Add sugar and bread to milk.
4. Whisk cocoa into eggs in separate bowl.
5. Temper the eggs by slowly adding about 1 cup of hot milk to eggs while whisking. This prevents you from making scrambled eggs.
6. Stir the egg/milk mixture back into the scalded milk.
7. Add vanilla and cinnamon if desired.
8. Pour into buttered casserole.
9. Bain Marie the casserole dish by placing it inside another larger casserole dish filed half-way with boiling or hot water.
10. Bake at 350 Degrees until set, around 30-45 minutes. A knife inserted into the center should come out clean.