Rum and Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding

What you need:

1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup coconut
3 tablespoon rum
3 eggs
3 tablespoon sugar
2 1/2 cups milk
6 pieces of white bread
200gr chopped dark chocolate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
butter

step 1: butter one side of each piece of bread and lay them into a shallow baking dish.

step 2: soak the coconut in the rum and vanilla essence for 10min. add in the eggs, cocoa and sugar. mix well.

step 3: add in the chopped chocolate and milk.

step 4: pour the wet mix over the bread and let the dish sit in the fridge for an hour.

step 5: preheat the oven to 180C and cook for 35-40min or until the bread has soaked up the custard mix.

serve with a nice big helping of ice cream or whipped cream.

alterations: for more custard add another egg and some more milk. if you want the custard creamier add half a cup of cream into the wet mix. for a sweet change, spread one side of the bread with jam! or you can even spread one side of the bread with nutella! dried fruit makes a good addition too!!

bread and butter pudding is one of those easily changeable desserts that everyone has a different recipe for.