Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding

Ingredients

• Butter-flavored cooking spray
• 2 cups 2 milk
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise
• 4 large day-old chocolate croissants, cut into 1/2-inch-thick pieces
• 1 (6 ounce) bag chocolate chips
• 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar, or to taste

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray muffin cups or brownie pan with cooking spray.

Mix milk, cream, eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Scrape the insides from each vanilla bean half into the milk mixture. Stir milk mixture until smooth and light yellow in color. Carefully stir croissant pieces into milk mixture until all pieces are wet; let soak for at least 10 minutes.

Fold chocolate chips into croissant mixture. Spoon croissant mixture into the prepared muffin cups.

Bake in the preheated oven until bubbling and golden brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Cool pudding for 30 minutes to 1 hour; transfer to a plate and sift powdered sugar over each.