Caramel Egg Nog Bread Pudding with homemade chocolate sauce

🧂 Ingredients

• 8 tbsp butter
• 1 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
• 1 tbsp butter

  softened for greasing the baking dish
• 2 1/2 cups egg nog
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 10 cups bread, large cubes

  challah, brioche, italian white bread all work well
• 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips

  semi-sweet or dark chocolate
• 8 tbsp butter
• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon dark brewed coffee
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 11×7 or a 9×13 baking dish.
• 2 Add butter to sauce pan. Turn heat to medium, when butter starts to melt add
  brown sugar and whisk until butter melts, and mixture is smooth. Whisk until
  caramel starts to boil, boil for 1 minute, and turn temp down to low. Whisk in
  heavy cream. Sauce should be smooth, and starting to thicken, this will take
  about 5 minutes.  Remove from stove and allow to cool.
• 3 Whisk eggnog, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla extract together in a bowl.
  This is your eggnog custard base.
• 4 Tear or cut one loaf of bread into 1 inch pieces, (this should measure out to be
  10 cups of bread cubes).
• 5 Fold bread into the eggnog mixture. Let stand for 15 minutes allowing bread to
  fully soak up liquid of the eggnog custard base.
• 6 Fold in mini chocolate chips. Transfer bread pudding to prepared baking dish.
  Take 1/2 cup of caramel sauce and drizzle over bread pudding, using a knife poke
  little holes so the caramel gets into pockets of the bread pudding.
• 7 Cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
• 8 In saucepan melt butter. Then add corn syrup, sugar, cocoa powder, and salt
  whisk until smooth. Stir frequently, let cook at a low boil for 2 minutes. Whisk
  in coffee, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream. Bring temperature back to a low
  boil, let boil like this for 2 minutes whisking continuously. Remove from heat,
  let cool for 15 minutes before serving. Store in a mason jar, or plastic
  container in the refrigerator.

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