Choc Chip Bread & Butter Pudding & Butterscotch Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

125 g butter
10 slices bread
4 eggs
1/4 cup caster sugar
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup chocolate chips
cinnamon sugar
ground nutmeg
Butterscotch Sauce
125 g butter
1 cup brown sugar
300 ml thickened cream

Preparation

Butter a 10x20cm loaf dish and set aside.
Butter bread slices and remove crusts, cut to required shape to fit you pan.
Whisk eggs & sugar until pale, gradually blend in milk & vanilla.
Place a layer of buttered bread over the base of the prepared dish. Sprinkle with a little chocolate.
Pour over enough custard mix to just cover the bread layer. Continue layering, bread chocolate & custard until pan is full, finishing with a layer of bread.
Drizzle with any remaining custard & dust with cinnamon sugar & nutmeg.
Place pan into a baking dish filled with enough water to to come halfway up the sides of the pan.
Bake at 180\u00b0C for 1 hour or until firm.
Prepare butterscotch sauce - Melt butter & sugar together in a saucepan, stir in cream.
Bring to the boil, stirring, reduce heat, simmer for 3 minutes or until slightly thickened.
Serve pudding with warm sauce and cream if desired.