Chocolate Bread
And Butter Pudding

When I think about the desserts I loved most as a child, I always picture my mum’s bread and butter pudding, which she made in Ireland using her homemade bread.

It was always such a treat to hit a plump sultana! In Venezuela, with cloud forest sugar, nutmeg trees on the lawn and the finest cacao at hand, this is what I gave my children

It’s especially good made with cacao bread.

BUY THE CHOCOLATE

5 slices thin brown bread or cacao bread, spread with unsalted butter

50g sultanas or raisins, soaked in rum overnight, then drained

¼ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg

2 heaped tbsp finely grated cacao. Willie suggests Venezuelan 100% Rio Caribe cacao

450ml whole milk

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

75g muscovado sugar