Ingredients

• 3 cups of whole milk
• 1 can of condensed milk
• 1 stick of melted butter
• 1 ½ cups of sugar
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup of raisins
• ¼ cup of walnuts
• 1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips

Method

One loaf of your favorite bread. (Challah, French, Italian, etc..) cut into ¼ inch slices.

Step one: Warm milk and butter (do not boil) in a heavy pot. Whisk in brown sugar, sugar, eggs, condensed milk, and vanilla.

Step two: Line a metal nonstick pan with ½ of your bread slices. Overlap them slightly so that you can not see the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle with half of the chocolate chips, raisins, and walnuts.

Step three: Cover with other half of bread slices.

Step four: Sprinkle the top with the other half of chocolate chips, raisins, and walnuts.

Step five: Pour warm milk mixture over the entire top. Be sure to cover the entire dish we the mixture. Everything should be wet by it.

Step six: Let stand for 5-10 minutes. Then cover with aluminum foil and bake one hour in a 350 degree oven.

Step seven: Uncover and bake 10- 15 more minutes.

You can choose to serve this two ways:

One: top with chocolate sauce and serve hot.

Two: Refrigerate for three hours and serve cold. Top with hot chocolate sauce.

Chocolate sauce

1 cup heavy whipping cream

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Heat cream in heavy boiler just till warm (do not boil.) Stir chocolate chips in and cover with a lid for 2-4 minutes. Stir. If all the chips have not melted into the cream, replace lid for another 2 minutes and then stir again.