While I’m not an advocate of emotional eating, I have to say that I agree with Stephanie Stiavetti of Wasabimon‘s assertion that dessert can really cheer you up when you’re feeling down. On the flip side of this, I also agree with her about the roasted chicken. Depressed or not, this recipe for Chocolate Bread Pudding looks like a winner to me. Whether you are using your own gluten-free bread that you’ve made in your handy dandy bread machine or your using one of the great store-bought brands, this recipe will bring a smile to just about anyone’s face.
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“Chocolate bread pudding is a wonder cure for any number of emotional ailments. Loneliness? Anxiety? Seasonal affective disorder? Check, check, and check. After spending this winter in the wilds of outer Cape Cod (Wellfleet, Mass, to be exact), I shook hands with all of these lovely feelings at one point or another, and the only thing that saved me was the fact that I had a huge kitchen at my disposal. After roasting countless chickens – my usual depression balm – I turned to my grandma’s favorite way out of an emotional hole: dessert.
This recipe is based on a bread pudding dish I posted a while back. I had almost all the necessary ingredients, but no marzipan; but while rifling through the cupboard, I found a huge bag of Valrhona chocolate chunks. What’s a sad, sad panda to do? Improvise, of course…”
