Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding is the perfect holiday recipe. It’s like drinking a cup of hot chocolate, but BETTER! An ooey, gooey, decadent chocolate dessert topped with toasted marshmallows. Yum! This dessert (or breakfast) is way too easy to be this delicious!
Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe
Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding turns classic bread pudding into a festive winter treat. Get the rich flavor of hot chocolate in this decadent dessert, or indulgent breakfast!
HOT CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING. Have four more delicious words ever been strung together? I live in a house that LOVES bread pudding. I happen to think it is one of the most undervalued desserts, but I won’t let it go unnoticed around here! I’ve got Caramel Apple Pie Bread Pudding, Irish Bread Pudding, Pineapple Bread Pudding, and now this incredible Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding is a welcome addition.
This hot chocolate dessert is comforting, homey, and also way easier than so many other options. The best of all of the worlds. This Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding can also double as a Hot Chocolate French Toast Bake, making mornings totally worth waking up for. I mean, every Christmas morning needs a special indulgent breakfast right?
Infused with hot chocolate and topped with marshmallows, this hot chocolate bread pudding is just to die for. SO yummy!
This Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding recipe will knock you off your feet. A rich chocolatey dessert, or an indulgent breakfast for Christmas morning!
Holiday Breakfast or Dessert
With Christmas around the corner, of course all of my thoughts have been about food. What to take to holiday parties. What we will eat Christmas Eve with Pat’s family.
What we will have the morning of our first Christmas not traveling in a while. That’s an important one. CHRISTMAS MORNING. In order to make my husband SUPER happy I think I’ll let him eat this Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding for breakfast AND dessert on Christmas.
I’m going to get tons of bread pudding points. (<– way better than brownie points in his opinion).
Hot Chocolate Dessert (Chocolate Bread Pudding)
To make this Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding super easy and quick during the holidays, I used store bought hot chocolate!
I used the Dark Chocolate, and it served as the perfect creamy base for this recipe. Made things quick and easy without sacrificing any flavor.
How to Make Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding
You can jump to the recipe card for full ingredients & instructions!
This recipe is super easy to make! Since the bread needs to soak in the hot chocolate mixture for a while anyways, this is something you can easily prep ahead of time, and then just bake it before serving.
- Cut your bread into 1-inch cubes, then place them on a baking tray and bake for 30 minutes at 350°F to make them nice and toasty.
- Whisk together hot chocolate, eggs, vanilla, and salt in a mixing bowl.
- Place a layer of bread cubes in a 9×9 baking dish, then sprinkle on half of the chocolate chips & marshmallows (1/4 cup each). Then repeat with a second layer of the bread cubes, chocolate chips, and marshmallows.
- Pour the hot chocolate mixture over everything, then cover the baking dish with foil.
- Refrigerate overnight (or for at least 2 hours) to let everything soak.
- When ready to cook, place the baking dish in the oven, uncovered, and bake at 325°F for 45-50 minutes.
- After baking, top the hot chocolate bread pudding with a layer of marshmallows.
- Return it to the oven and broil for 3-4 minutes. This will make the marshmallow topping melty and brown.
Let the bread pudding sit and cool for 20 minutes before serving. It comes out warm, chocolatey, and super delicious! Check the recipe card below for full recipe and more detailed instructions.
I mean, talk about ooey gooey. This Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding recipe will be all the rage this Christmas!
If you like this chocolate bread pudding recipe, you’ll love these recipes too:
- Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate
- Malted Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
- Peppermint Hot Chocolate Recipe
- Flourless Hot Chocolate Cookies
- Frozen Caramel Hot Chocolate
- Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake
If you make this recipe be sure to upload a photo in the comment section below or leave a rating. Enjoy! You can also jump to recipe.
Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe
Ingredients
- 16 ounces Hawaiian sweet bread 454 grams (1 loaf)
- 3½ cups prepared hot chocolate 795 grams, cooled
- 5 large eggs 250 grams
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 4 grams
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ cup milk chocolate chips 85 grams, divided
- 2 cups mini marshmallows 86 grams, divided
Equipment
- Kitchen Scale (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Slice the loaf of bread into 1-inch cubes, cutting off the crust. It will make about 10-11 cups of bread.16 ounces Hawaiian sweet bread
- Place the bread cubes on a baking sheet and bake for about 30 minutes, turning twice. (you can skip this step if you're tight on time, but the toasted bread makes this extra tasty!)
- In a large bowl, whisk together the hot chocolate, eggs, vanilla, and salt. Set aside.3½ cups prepared hot chocolate, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 5 large eggs, ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- Place one layer of bread cubes into a 9×9-inch baking dish. Scatter ¼ cup chocolate chips and ¼ cup mini marshmallows over the bread.½ cup milk chocolate chips, 2 cups mini marshmallows
- Top with the rest of the bread and pack tightly. Sprinkle with the remaining ¼ chocolate chips and ¼ cup of the marshmallows.
- Pour hot chocolate mixture into the baking dish. The liquid should come to almost to the top of the dish with a bit of the bread still exposed. Cover with foil.
- Refrigerate overnight or for at least 2 hours.
- When ready to prepare, preheat oven to 325°F. Allow the bread pudding to rest on the counter while the oven heats.
- Bake, uncovered, for 45-50 minutes or until the bread cubes are crisp and browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle is firm.
- Remove the dish from the oven and top with the remaining 1½ cups mini marshmallows.
- Switch your oven settings to broil and broil for approximately 3-4 minutes, or until the marshmallows are toasted to your liking. Watch it closely, the broiler can burn the marshmallows easily.
- Let sit for about 20 minutes before serving, it will be very hot. Slice and serve.
Last step! Don’t forget to show me a pic of what you made! Upload an image or tag me @thecookierookie on Instagram!
Becky’s tips
- I like Hawaiian sweet bread, but you can use whatever bread you like. Challah would be great!
- This recipe is super easy to make! Since the bread needs to soak in the hot chocolate mixture for a while anyways, this is something you can easily prep ahead of time, and then just bake it before serving.
Nutrition Information
OMG…Becky this chocolate bread pudding looks amazing. I can’t wait to baker this dish with my daughter. She loves to bake and she wants to one day own her own bakery with all kinds of delicious desserts. I know my family will love it especially my daughter. Thank you for sharing!!????????
Thanks, Nicole!
If you are one like myself that hates the taste of marshmallows I bet you could make a meringue and fold some into pudding to make it light and fluffy then use rest for top of pudding and put under broiler for a second to brown tips you create or use food blow touch.
The Hot Chocolate is not available in my area. What is your recommendation, should I use a hot chocolate mix with water or milk?
Sorry to hear that TL! I would use a half heavy cream and half whole milk. Should work just fine!
Looks like we’ve got a hunka hunka burnin’ YUM right here. This looks incredible!!! And since it’s in a casserole dish I think that makes it totally ok for breakfast. Right?
HA! Love this comment. Thank you Jessie!
Oh my goodness, Becky. I cannot how RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME this bread pudding sounds! Like y’all, we aren’t traveling for Christmas Day for the first time in our married lives (or, you know, in our whole lives — eek!) and I’d love to start a new Christmas morning tradition. Bread pudding points sound great to me, and I know my husband will adore this recipe, so saving this! Thanks for sharing!
You are so sweet Erin! I love your site. Thanks for stopping by!