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Each year a large group of Avon authors get together to shae their best holiday recipes. This year I’m offering up my family’s favorite dessert: Chocolate Bread Pudding. Ingredients:4 eggs, 2 cups of cream, 1 1/2 cup milk, 1/3 cup of sugar, 1 Tablespoon vanilla, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, butter,1 loaf of Kings Hawaiian bread or brioche (egg) bread), bag of milk chocolate chips

Whisk together very well: 4 eggs, 2 cups of cream, 1 1/2 cup milk, 1/3 cup of sugar, 1 Tablespoon vanilla, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon. Butter a 2 quart covered casserole dish (or foil if you don’t have a cover). Layer bottom of casserole with part of bread. Put layer of chocolate chips sprinkled. Alternate layers of chocolate chips and bread until all are used. Carefully pour creamy egg wet ingredients over all of the casserole. put lid on top or foil. Place casserole in an inch of water in a larger pan (very important) in the oven to create steam. Cook covered at 300 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove cover and bake another 45 minutes at 300 degrees. Let cool a little. You can eat this hot or cold. I especially like it thinly sliced cold the morning after…when you have time to curl up with a great book.

Click here to go Jenny Brown’s great recipe for Cloud Cookies.