Dessert Recipes: Chocolate Bread Pudding with Turtle Topping

Here's one of the best quick & easy dessert recipes out of an online cookbook of cakes, pies, cupcakes, tarts, cheesecakes, brownies, cookies. It's the exclamation point on dinner recipes.

Dessert doesn't have to be elaborate to compliment your main meal entree. Even a simple last bite like a fruit compote or a pudding recipe topped with whipped cream can make a wonderful last-statement sweet.

Consider your dinner recipe and what dessert recipe goes well to make a balanced taste. Avoid heavy or spicy dishes back to back. Balance rich dishes with simple ones. Don't serve too many spicy foods in one meal. Don't serve successive sweet dishes, such as chicken basted with currant jelly, mixed fruit salad and strawberry trifle dessert recipe.

As the final dish, you want to serve dessert properly. Set out the dessert fork or spoon when you first set the table. Choose the "dessert container," such as a small plate or glass stemware, once you decide what dessert you will prepare so you can visualize how your final presentation will appeal to the eye. For example, set crystal stemware on a crystal dish with a stem of mint leaves.

Warm Chocolate Bread Pudding with Turtle Topping
Serves: 6 to 8

2 1⁄2 cups skim milk
1⁄3 cup Truvía® Baking Blend
1⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 large egg white
5 cups (1-inch) cubed day-old French bread
Cooking spray
1⁄4 cup caramel sundae syrup
1⁄4 cup chopped pecans
1⁄4 cup milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350° F. Combine first 6 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Add bread, pressing down with a spatula to soak. Spoon bread mixture into a 2-quart baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 50 minutes. Drizzle with caramel syrup, and sprinkle with nuts. Bake an additional 5 minutes or until caramel syrup is bubbly.

Place chocolate chips in a small glass bowl or heavy-duty zip-top bag; microwave at high for 30 seconds or until melted. Drizzle over the bread pudding. Serve warm.

This chocolate bread pudding with turtle topping has 130 calories and 3 grams of sugar per serving as compared to 160 calories and 10 grams of sugar per serving in the full-sugar version.

* Source: Truvia

I'm Alexandria Marx, the Yum Expert and everyday home kitchen cook blogging about family friendly foods from around the world that are easy to make, nutritious, decadent and delicious. Wife, mother, diabetic. If you enjoyed this post, please tweet your friends and followers. Thanks.