Chocolate Bread Pudding

A simple chocolate bread pudding and hot fudge sauce recipe with a taste to die for..

Ingredients
Serves 4

Pudding
6 thick slices white bread,
with crusts removed
450ml milk
175ml canned evaporated milk
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 eggs
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
icing sugar for dusting

Hot Fudge Sauce
55g plain chocolate pieces
1 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp golden syrup
55g butter
2 tbsp brown sugar
150ml milk
1 tbsp cornflour

Grease a shallow ovenproof dish. Cut the bread into squares and layer them in the dish.
Put the milk, evaporated milk and cocoa powder into a saucepan and heat gently, stirring occasionally until the mixture is lukewarm. Whisk the eggs, sugar and vanilla essence together. Add the warm milk mixture and beat well.
Pour into the prepared dish making sure that all the bread s completely covered. Cover the dish with clingfilm and chill in the fridge for 1-2 hours, then bake in a preheated oven 180C/350F for 35-40 minutes or until set. Stand for 5 minutes.
To make the sauce, put all the ingredients into a saucepan and heat gently, stirring constantly until smooth.
Dust with icing sugar and serve immediately with the hot fudge sauce.