Chocolate Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

from the cookbook Colorado Cravings

Ingredients:

1 loaf French bread
4 cups milk
2 tablespoons vanilla
3 eggs
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 cup chocolate pieces

Sauce (optional)

1/2 cup melted butter
2 tablespoons whiskey

Tear the bread into 1-inch pieces.

Place in a large bowl. Add milk and vanilla.

Mix and cover to let stand at room temperature for one hour.

Mix eggs, sugar and chocolate pieces together, add to milk and bread mixture and stir well.

Pour into buttered casserole dish and bake at 375 degrees for one hour.

You may serve warm with whiskey butter sauce over top.