Chocolate Bread Pudding

I absolutely love when people message me and ask if I will give one of their favorite recipes a makeover!! I recently had someone ask if I would try making a chocolatey caramely bread pudding.  Sounded pretty tasty to me! I was up for the challenge.  I am extremely happy to say that it turned out amazing! Only took me one try too!

Goodness gracious!!

Ingredients are pretty simple...

Any type of bread, egg substitute, unsweetened applesauce, sugar free fat free butterscotch pudding mix, chocolate protein powder, vanilla, chocolate chips, and sweetener if desired.

You can use any brand of chocolate protein, but I cannot guarantee the results.  I highly recommend baking with MTS whey.  

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Cut the bread into cubes and set aside.

I consider this dish one serving, but you can easily double, triple, or even quadruple the recipe if you want to make a dish to share!

Mix everything else except the chocolate chips together in a separate bowl. 

Pour the mixture over the bread and gently stir until the bread is evenly coated.  Pour into a sprayed baking dish.  It can be a circle, oval, square, rectangle, or even pineapple shaped for all I care! 

Sprinkle as much or as little chocolate chips on top as you like!

Ready for the oven! 350 for about 25-30 minutes.  This one took 28 minutes.  Baking time will vary depending on the size and shape of your dish. 

I was so excited when I took it out of the oven! It looked and smelled amazing!

I hardly even waited for it to cool at all before I dug in! Heavenly!

Seriously! It is chocolatey, creamy, sweet, and so soft and gooey from the pudding.  Such a great chocolate dessert! The whole dish is only about 360 calories plus almost 30 grams of protein! Not too shabby!

I started to think of the other flavor combinations you could do just by changing the pudding and protein powder flavors! For example...

Vanilla pudding & cake batter protein

Cheesecake pudding & red velvet protein

Chocolate pudding & cookies and cream protein

White chocolate  pudding & peanut butter protein

Pistachio pudding & vanilla protein

Banana cream pudding & chocolate protein

I am pretty sure those are all the flavors of sugar free fat free pudding mix...but the flavor possibilities are endless! Not to mention trying peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, or even toffee chips!

I am definitely going to be trying white chocolate pudding with peanut butter protein and peanut butter chips very very soon!! Til then I will just enjoy this masterpiece :)

Go make it! Now!!

Chocolate Bread Pudding

• 2 slices of bread (any kind)
• 1 scoop MTS Chocolate whey (30g)
• 1/4 package sugar free fat free butterscotch pudding mix (8g)
• 3 T egg substitute (46g)
• 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (165g)
• 1/2 t vanilla
• sweetener to taste
• 1 T chocolate chips (14g)

1. Cut bread into cubes and set aside.

2. Mix everything else except chocolate chips together in a separate bowl.

3. Pour mixture over bread and stir gently til bread is coated.

4. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top.

5. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Entire dish - 405 calories

8g Fat

59g Carb

33g Protein 

"Grandma's" Pineapple Bread Pudding

A few days ago someone messaged me on Facebook asking me to take their Grandma's recipe for pineapple bread pudding and redo it "Kim Style".  I was assuming this meant to make it healthy, low carb, high protein, and of course tasty! I was pretty honored, but also a little worried that I was going to fail miserably!! I am happy to say I think it turned out quite delicious!

I looked over the original recipes and had an idea in mind.  Off to the store for a few ingredients.

Of course I knew I would need bread and pineapple.  I also used egg substitute in place of the real eggs, applesauce instead of butter, and vanilla protein powder seemed like a good alternative to sugar! The pineapple was so naturally sweet that I didn't even use the sweetener!!! That's a first!

I cut the bread into cubes and set it aside.  

I used a light wheat bread to keep is super healthy, but you could use any type of bread

I mixed up the remaining ingredients. I squeezed out most of the liquid from the crushed pineapple.  

 Looking pretty good so far! I think...I had never made any kind of bread pudding before this so I really wasn't sure if it was looking like it was supposed to!

I took a little taste of the mixture and it was nice and sweet.  

Fold in the bread gently and make sure it's all coated.  I just made a single serving.

Bake for 25-30 minutes at 350.  I kept checking it like every two minutes so I didn't burn it!! 

It smelled amazing!!! I was so excited to give it a taste!

I didn't even let it cool. I just dug right in! Success!!!! It was seriously so good!

 I really surprised myself! I thought for sure a few attempts would end up in the garbage.  I wanted to eat the whole thing but I had already promised my husband I would save him some. Dang...should have made a bigger dish! 

I will be making this again for sure!! I hope the person who requested it is as pleased with it as I am!

Pineapple Bread Pudding

2 slices light wheat 45 calorie bread

5 oz crushed pineapple (140g)

2 oz unsweetened applesauce (60g)

3 T egg substitute (46g)

1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder (15g)

1. Cut bread into cubes and set aside.
2. Mix together applesauce, egg, and protein powder.
3. Mix in fruit.
4. Gently stir in bread cubes.
5. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. 
6. Enjoy

Makes one serving (share only if you must!)

245 calories 

1g Fat 

43g Carb 

22g Protein

*What dish would like to have redone to be healthier?