MMM..Comfort Food…Chocolate Pudding
August 11, 2008 by Marye Audet
Filed under Chocolate, Desserts, Quick and Easy
I love chocolate pudding. Chocolate mousse is nice, but for pure home comfort food chocolate pudding has to be right up there on the list.
It amazes me how many people grab a box of Jell-o instant when they could so easily have the real thing. Darn Bill Cosby anyway! If I promise to give you a no fail, super easy, incredibly fast pudding recipe will you swear, once and for all, to never touch a box of powdered toxic chemicals in chocolate flavor again? Good. I knew you would.
If you really want to streamline the creation of this just keep the dry ingredients mixed in a ziploc.
You can use it for pie filling or pudding, and if you refrigerate it uncovered it will get that nasty skin on it that my family finds to be the best part of the pudding. In fact, ::::shudder::: My daughter has been known to pour it in a saucer to cool so that it is mostly……skin.
If you don’t want that, just butter a piece of wax paper and place it on top of the pudding as it is chilling. I like to make a streusel with equal parts of butter, sugar, and flour to sprinkle on top of the finished pudding.
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup organic cornstarch (no GMOs!)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5-1/2 cups half and half…you can use whole milk if you must but do not use low fat or skim…
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mix dry ingredients together until there are no lumps of cocoa or cornstarch. Add half and half slowly whisking smooth as you add the cream. Whisk it until smooth. Now…put in the microwave and cook, stirring every minute, until mixture is thick and coats a spoon…This will take 6 to 9 minutes.
Remove from microwave and add butter in small pieces, whisking it in to blend. Finally add vanilla. Cover (or not) and chill until ready to serve.
8 servings, or one pie.
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There’s nothing like homemade smooth and creamy chocolate pudding! And your so right it’s even as easy as making the cook and serve pudding. awe Marye now you’ve made me hungry for it!! LOL!!
LOL! Bunny, you should make some.
Microwave? ACK!!!
Actually, they blow my outlets, don’t know why. It’s happened in two apartments and this house. Gave up on them.
We have all new wiring, too. (in the kitchen that is)
I love real pudding, thanks
Julie, you can do it on the stove.
um… sorry if I’m being dense… but in the instructions you say “whisking smooth as you add the cream”. What cream? Is “cream” another term for “milk”?
See what happens when your blog has an international following… some of us don’t have a clue what you mean!
Lynne-
The ingredients call for half and half, which I often refer to as cream since it is not milk…sorry for the confusion.
Thanks Marye! I’m in South Africa, in case you were wondering how far your chocolate pudding had spread!
Can’t wait to make it, but I’ll have to be patient because our kitchen is being renovated so the only appliance I have access to is the kettle!
Aww Lynne, I am sorry. I live in a constant state of renovation…my house is 100 years old and it is taking forever to restore it..and of course, the kitchen gets done last! But I have a little more than a kettle to work with.
You know.. I knew if I waited long enough, you’d post a recipie for chocolate pudding!! my children and I thank you!!!!! [now, do you happen to have a recipie for a vanilla one?
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Yeah, I do Monica…LOL!
Hi Marye,
That’s exactly WHY I love your recipes! You put the healthy spin back on food!!! No problem about the delay on concentrated apple juice substitute for sugar baking recipes. I know that you must have been busy… I hope you and yours are doing well!
Blessings
Wow, Ivory, generally people look at the fat in my recipes and run for the nearest bottle of fat free soy milk.
Thanks
Hello, Marye! I just recently discovered your blog a few weeks ago and have been lurking about. I was thinking about making this delicious looking pudding of yours and was just wondering if there was any specific reason not to use skim or low fat milk? Is it because it won’t get thick?
I’m trying to cut back and make healthier things (and your blog is helping IMMENSELY!) So when I saw this, it seemed great! Just that much half and half or whole milk seems like an awful lot of fat (then again…it IS pudding, heh…)
Anyways, sorry about my rambling. A 17 year old up at 1:45 in the morning is something no one should have to endure. I hope to hear from you!
Tim, low fat items change the texture and it isn’t as velvety or creamy. ALso I don;t happen to believe that low fat foods are good for you.
Ah, I see. I guess I’ll have to go the whole milk route. Thanks so much for the prompt reply
you are welcome. anytime.
I finally got round to making the chocolate pudding this weekend and it was a huge hit with my family! Including my son who is a chef of note… so thanks Marye!
And because we don’t have half and half, I made it with 1 cup of cream and the rest full cream milk and it was totally yummy. More cream would have made it too rich, I think
I am glad you liked it lynne!