if you're looking for an easy crowd-pleasing dessert my chocolate apricot bread pudding is perfect let's start by placing our three cups of French bread that we have cubed in the bottom of this baking dish and this is a day old French bread it's better when you make bread puddings to use the day-old bread because that way you can make sure that it really absorbs a lot of that moisture but it doesn't get too soggy so I'm just going to scatter the bread along the bottom of the pan here make sure that the bottom is covered so now let's combine our cream mixture I'm going to add a cup of cream into the bowl then I've got two eggs and I'll just whisk these in together going to add in now third a cup of sugar just keep whisking so that it dissolves and then I'm going to whisk in a tablespoon of vanilla and then I'm going to put my apricots on top of my bread just scatter everything and I'll scatter my chocolate chips right on top of those then we can just press this down and make sure that everything's even and then we'll give one more whisk to our cream mixture so now we can pour the cream mixture right over the bread cubes you can see it's almost going to cover the top but not completely now we'll cover our baking dish and we'll let it rest and refrigerator for 30 minutes and then we'll come back and bake it now we'll bake our bread pudding for 45 minutes and a 350 degree oven so 45 minutes have passed and it's time to check our bread pudding we can see it's nice and golden and the edges have kind of started to separate from the pan that's how we know it's ready because we covered it the apricots stayed nice and plump if we would have left it uncovered they might have gotten a little bit burnt so now we can just serve it on a plate so there we have our apricot and chocolate bread pudding a creamy buttery and chocolaty finale to any meal enjoy for thousands of how to and advice videos on any topic visit monkey-see calm