Name: Individual Croissant Bread Puddings with Dried Cherries, Bittersweet Chocolate, and Toasted Pecans
Ingredients: 1/4 cup dried cherries; 1/4 cup pecans; Canola oil for greasing; 2 cups heavy cream; 1 vanilla bean; 4 large egg yolks; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 3 day-old croissants; 2 tablespoons coarsely grated bittersweet chocolate (from about 1 ounce)

Individual Croissant Bread Puddings with Dried Cherries, Bittersweet Chocolate, and Toasted PecansCaren Alpert

This is probably my favorite dessert in the book. It looks and tastes like you struggled all day, yet from start to finish it takes less than 45 minutes to prepare (and 25 minutes of that is baking).

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