Chocolate Cherry Bread Pudding | Kowalski's Markets

Ingredients

• ⅔ cup Kirsch
• Grand Marnier or orange juice
• 1 ½ cups (about 10 oz.) dried cherries
• 1 loaf (roughly 12 oz.) Kowalski's Signature Artisan Challah Bread
• cut into 1 ½" pieces
• ¼ cup Kowalski's Unsalted Butter
• melted
• 10 oz. semisweet dark chocolate (such as Scharffen Berger brand)
• 6 eggs
• 2 cups half-and-half
• 1 cup sugar
• ¾ cup heavy cream
• ½ cup mascarpone cheese
• 1 tsp. Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract
• - confectioners' sugar
• for dusting