White Chocolate Bread Pudding - Bread

Method

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Cut the brioche loaf into 1 inch dice.
• Place in a 2 quart baking dish.
• Drizzle with melted butter.
• Toss chunked white chocolate with bread cubes.
• Combine milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla bean and bring to a boil over medium heat until sugar is disolved.
• Whisk eggs until smooth.
• Add hot milk mixture to eggs slowly, stirring contsantly.
• Do not wisk or custard will have a great deal of foam on the surface.
• Skim foam from custard.
• Strain custard over bread and chocolate.
• Let stand for 10 minutes to allow custard to soak into bread.
• Place baking dish in another larger pan.
• Pour hot water into larger dish to reach 1 inch up side of dish.
• Bake the bread pudding for about 45 minutes to 1 hour, until custard is set and brioche is golden.