Last November, I spent a whole weekend steeped in jealousy as I read about all the fun that was going on at the first FoodBuzz Blogger Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 I regretted not going and decided I would try my best to go this year.<\/p>\n

I’m still going to try my best and I’m trying to cover all my bases.<\/p>\n

That brings us to the Nature’s Pride Bread Ambassador Contest.<\/p>\n

As part of the FoodBuzz Tastemaker Program, I was eligible to receive a coupon for a free sample of Nature’s Pride<\/a> bread to use in a recipe to be entered in the contest.\u00a0 If I’m one of the 6 winners selected, then my airfare and accommodations are covered for the FoodBuzz Blogger Festival.<\/p>\n

It looks like there are already lots of great entries, and I’m excited to submit my entry!<\/p>\n

Triple Chocolate Orange Bread Pudding<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ingredients<\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups milk<\/p>\n

2 oz. semi sweet chocolate, chopped<\/p>\n

2 eggs<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup sugar<\/p>\n

1 tbsp. cocoa powder<\/p>\n

1\/4 tsp. salt<\/p>\n

1 tsp. vanilla extract<\/p>\n

1 tsp. orange extract<\/p>\n

6 slices bread, cubed<\/p>\n

1 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, chopped<\/p>\n

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Directions<\/span><\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.<\/p>\n

Heat the milk and 2 oz. chopped chocolate until chocolate has melted.\u00a0 To do this, I took a saucepan of water, brought it to a boil, and placed the milk and chocolate in large glass bowl that I placed over the saucepan — an improvised double-boiler.<\/p>\n

Set the chocolate milk mixture aside. In a separate bowl, take the eggs, sugar, salt,cocoa powder, and extracts, and mix together.<\/p>\n

Slowly add the chocolate milk mixture into the egg mixture.\u00a0 Add it a spoonful at a time and whisk it as you go — you don’t want to add all the hot milk into the eggs at once or else you might end up with chocolate scrambled eggs. Yuck.<\/p>\n

Once the milk and egg mixtures have been combined, add the bread cubes and make sure all pieces are covered in the mixture.<\/p>\n

Place everything in a square 8 x8 glass baking pan.\u00a0 Sprinkle the remaining 1 oz. chopped semi-sweet chocolate over the pan and bake for 40-45 minutes.<\/p>\n

Makes 9 servings.<\/p>\n

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