Yesterday I made chocolate pudding from scratch and realized why buy a boxed pudding mix ever again. Homemade pudding contains only three dry ingredients (cocoa, sugar and cornstarch). If you look at the ingredients on a box of pudding I'm sure it contains more and some you probably can't pronounce. It is also more healthy, well as healthy as sugar can be and your being more green. Another packaged product you don't need to buy.
To finish off the pudding add milk, an egg and some chocolate chips and tada, pudding is cooked and cooling in under 10 minutes. Now I just need to try more flavors (vanilla, banana, butterscotch, coconut, lemon and white chocolate raspberry). The adventures continue.
The original recipe came from Cooking for Real by Sunny Anderson. I didn’t add the pretzel topping and changed it to bitter sweet chips with a bit more because the reviews said it was too sweet. It is a very rich, moose like pudding but good.
10 MINUTE CHOCOLATE PUDDING
½ C. sugar
½ C. cocoa powder
2 T. cornstarch
2 C. milk
1 egg
⅓ C. bitter sweet chocolate chips
In a medium saucepan, whisk together the cocoa, sugar and cornstarch. Form a well in the center and slowly whisk in the milk over medium heat. Bring mixture to a boil to thicken while whisking. Remove from heat. In a 2 cup glass measuring cup add the egg and whisk. Then add a few tablespoons of the hot milk mixture a tablespoon at a time to temper the egg so it won’t scramble. Then add egg mixture to the saucepan of milk. Heat and stir over low until mixture thickens to a pudding like consistency , about 3-5 minutes. Add the chips and stir until melted. Pour into 4 oz. ramekins. Chill at least 1 hour. Top with some whipped cream.
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