Just Add Butter

At the gym today (yes, I am going to the gym again - not a resolution, it's just a good idea) I turned on the television attached to the elliptical machine. What was on TV? The Food Network. How ironic, I thought. It was Paula Dean. She was making bread pudding with chocolate in it. As she was having some guy mix up all of the ingredients, she was spraying the pan with "non-fat cooking spray". If you followed her instructions you would then put the butter and chocolate loaded bread pudding mixture in the pan and put it into the oven for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

Next, you would make a toffee rum sauce for the top of it. The ingredients for this sauce included 2 sticks of butter, rum, sugar, and vanilla extract. This sauce gets simmered on the stove-top and then poured over the baked bread pudding. What was the point of that non-fat cooking spray again? And why in the hell would anyone watch this show while on the elliptical? It kind of defeats the purpose of going to the gym if the first thing you do is run home and make this recipe. Beware, Paula Dean might want to give you a heart attack rather than a nice dessert.