Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding

Since I got my first time cooking with Ali's class out of the way I no longer find the task daunting. I signed up to cook with Sofia's class for yesterday. I wanted to find something that would be easy for the kids to make and that they could be involved with. I quickly thought of bread pudding. It was a great success. The kids loved ripping up the bread into chunks, mixing everything together and putting in the chocolate chips. They were very excited to make it. We made two pans of the bread pudding. Since there are 19 kids in Sofia's class I worked with them in two groups so making two dishes worked out well. It was a mad dash to get them in the oven and luckily the ovens here cook much faster so it only took 35 minutes to cook rather than 45 minutes. The kids ate up their bread pudding just before the end of the day.

I wasn't sure how much to bring for ingredients since I'm never sure how many cups of bread a loaf makes. Once I was done baking with Sofia's class I had a lot left over. Rather than bring it home and make it alone I decided to leave it in Ali's class to bake with them. Today I made the bread pudding with Ali's class and it was also a big hit. It is a lot of fun to cook with the kids. They enjoy it and the kids love having a parent in the room. "HEY, IT'S ALI'S MOMMY!!!" It is nice to be greeted with such happiness!