The most insane bread and butter pudding recipe using pain au chocolat pastries 🥐🍫

If you are in the mood for a decadent easy pudding – look no further! You can also swap the pain au chocolate for brioche or plain croissants.

By The Good Housekeeping Cookery TeamUpdated: 03 June 2025

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best easy baking recipes pain au chocolat bread and butter pudding

This delicious bread and butter pudding looks basic but once you realised that we've used pain au chocolat pastries in it - it'll blow your mind. It's really easy to throw together and absolutely worth the decadence. The pain au chocolats are soaked in a chocolate custard and then baked in the oven until crispy on the top and soft on the bottom. Heaven begins with this recipe.

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Yields:

8 serving(s)

Prep Time:

15 mins

Cook Time:

45 mins

Total Time:

1 hr

Cal/Serv:

595

Ingredients

Butter, to grease
8
pain au chocolat, cut in half diagonally
500 ml
whole milk
300 ml
double cream
100 g
dark chocolate, at least 70% cocoa solids, finely chopped
50 g
chocolate hazelnut spread
3
medium eggs
2 Tbsp.
caster sugar

Directions

1. Step 1Lightly grease a 2 litre ovenproof dish. Arrange the pain au chocolat in the dish, with the slices slightly overlapping. Set aside.
2. Step 2In a large pan heat milk and cream until steaming. Remove from heat. Add chocolate and chocolate hazelnut spread and stir until melted together.
3. Step 3Whisk eggs and sugar in a large bowl to combine. Slowly pour in hot chocolate mixture, whisking constantly to make a smooth custard. Pour over the pain au chocolat and leave to soak for 30min-1hr.
4. Step 4Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan) mark 4. Bake pudding for 30-35min, or until golden brown but still slightly moist in the centre. Serve with cream or ice cream, if you like.

GH TIPS:

Make this in advance and re-warm it up just before serving.

You could substitute the pain au chocolat for plain croissants, and even cinnamon buns if you wanted to mix it up.

We love drizzling warmed up Lotus Biscoff spread over top for a spiced sweetness.

Our sticky toffee bread and butter pudding recipe is another of our favourites - you have to try it!

Per serving:

Calories: 595
Protein: 10g
Total fat: 43g
Saturates: 26g
Carbs: 40g
Total sugars: 24g
Fibre: 2g

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