Chocolate Bread Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 pints heavy cream
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 8 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 1½ cups sugar
• 6 croissants
• ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips
• vanilla ice cream

Instructions

1. In a large saucepan over a medium-high flame, bring cream just to a boil.
2. Remove pan from heat and whisk in cocoa.
3. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
4. Preheat oven to 350°F.
5. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, yolks, and sugar.
6. Pour cream mixture into egg mixture and whisk until well blended.
7. Break croissants into 1½-inch pieces and line bottom of a 9? x 13? glass baking dish.
8. Stir chocolate chips into cream mixture and pour over croissants.
9. Bake 50 to 60 minutes, until still jiggly in center.
10. Cool on a rack 30 minutes.
11. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.