Homemade Chocolate Pudding – this nostalgic dessert is supremely chocolatey, deliciously decadent, and lusciously creamy, amongst a silky polish melt-in-your-oral fissure consistency. All the things yous’d want inwards a perfect pudding together with and then or so!
About This Homemade Chocolate Pudding
I intend pudding tin have a bad reputation. Because when nosotros intend of pudding many of us now intend of the shelf stable singles highly lacking in flavor that are filled with artificial season and preservatives. This freshly made pudding is a yard times improve!
And the method to making it is incredibly easy.
Just whisk the ingredients, simmer over the stovetop, (strain if you are picky together with similar it lump-gratuitous similar me), so mix in the chopped chocolate at the stop.
From in that location the hardest part is waiting for it to chill inward the refrigerator to fully thicken (which as well makes it nicely cold together with refreshing).
It’s the perfect dessert year circular but particularly during hot summer days.
Spoon finished pudding into pretty glasses or cups, complete each amongst a billowy mound of airy whipped cream, together with fine shavings of nighttime chocolate. Here y'all’ll accept an elegant dessert that’s destined to impress anyone.
I mean this is even worthy of existence deemed every bit the best pudding recipe! It’sec definitely the favorite about hither, we merely tin’t become enough of it! 
Chocolate Pudding Recipe Ingredients
- Granulated sugar: If you lot desire the pudding a piddling sweeter you tin can add together two extra tablespoons.
- Dutch procedure cocoa powder: Since this isn’t available at all grocery stores y'all tin make alongside regular unsweetened cocoa pulverization if needed.
- Cornstarch: This is critical to thickening in this pudding recipe, and it needs to be heated to a full simmer inward guild to properly thicken.
- Salt: A fair total balances the sweet together with enhances the chocolate season hither.
- Whole milk: If you occur to alone accept depression fatty milk yous tin can supplant a few tablespoons of it with heavy cream to equal whole milk.
- Egg yolks: Reserve the whites for another function, there are about ideas hither.
- Semi-sweetness chocolate: Use skilful quality chocolate for best results.
- Unsalted butter: Since it’second a small sum used here salted butter would live fine likewise.
- Vanilla extract: This is the perfect flavour pairing to chocolate and then nosotros function a fair total.
- Heavy cream: This isn’t critical to there recipe, I just like it for a nice finishing impact. If you lot don’t care to add it and then omit along alongside the extra i Tbsp saccharide.
See below for total recipe alongside impress pick.
How to Make Chocolate Pudding from Scratch
- Whisk dry ingredients in saucepan: In a medium saucepan whisk together one/2 loving cup carbohydrate, the cocoa pulverisation, cornstarch together with common salt.
- Whisk inwards wet ingredients: Pour inward milk and egg yolks in addition to whisk well.
- Cook as well as stir: Cook mixture over medium-high rut, stirring constantly and while scraping bottom as well as sides of pan alongside a safety spatula to forbid peel from forming.
- Bring to simmer, whisk well: Once mixture thickens as well as comes to a simmer (alongside bubbling across top surface also not just edges), directly switch to a whisk too trim back heat to medium-depression, permit simmer xxx seconds patch whisking constantly.
- Strain pudding, stir inward chocolate in addition to flavorings: Immediately take away from oestrus together with strain mixture through a fine meshing strainer into a oestrus proof bowl. Right away add chocolate, butter as well as vanilla while mixture is still real hot too whisk until shine.
- Cover snug amongst plastic: Cover mixture with a sail of plastic wind spell pressing direct against the surface of pudding to foreclose a pare from forming.
- Chill to thicken fully: Chill iv hours.
- Make whipped topping: Whip heavy cream as well as ane Tbsp carbohydrate inwards a medium bowl on with manus mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form.
- Add to serving cups, garnish: Stir pudding so spoon into individual serving dishes, acme alongside whipped cream together with garnish amongst shaved chocolate.
Serving Dish Size
- 4 to six oz serving dishes should run well hither.
- My footed drinking glass cups (pictured) are v.v oz. I bought them here.
Storage
- Homemade pudding should e'er live stored inwards the fridge for nutrient rubber.
- It shouldn’t sit at room temperature for more than than 1 hour (only retrieve it’sec best common cold).
- It volition proceed about 3 – iv days in an airtight container inwards the fridge (only chances are it will be gone much earlier then, it’s dangerously delicious!).
Can homemade pudding live frozen?
- No. Unfortunately homemade pudding doesn’t freeze real well (unless perchance you design on serving inwards a frozen land like popsicles).
- The reason being is that texture of the pudding won’t live quite the same upon thawing.
Helpful Homemade Pudding Tips
- Have ingredients prepped and fix before y'all commence cooking.
- Don’t let the pudding custard mixture become likewise hot or you lot will scramble the egg yolks. A fair bubbling simmer will do good, but don’t boil it.
- Use a spatula patch stirring to scrape the bottom too sides of the pan, otherwise a pare from the cornstarch in addition to egg volition commencement to from around the edges.
- Whisk somewhat vigorously at the stop and then in that location’second no seperation.
- To rid pudding of whatever lumps strain too press cooked mixture through a fine sieve.
- Chop chocolate up fine then it volition melt fully when added to hot pudding mixture. Large chunks may not melt through.
- Don’t forget to press the plastic roll directly against the surface of the pudding earlier chilling otherwise a pare volition class. This would get out an unpleasant texture too can make lumps when mixed in.
- Plan ahead as well as let plenty fourth dimension to chill thoroughly. It’sec thicker as well as tastes amend this style.
More Tempting Desserts to Try
Chocolate Pudding Recipe
This nostalgic dessert is supremely chocolatey, deliciously decadent, and lusciously creamy with a silky smoothen melt-in-your-oral fissure consistency. All the things you'd desire inward a perfect pudding too and so around!
Servings: five
Ingredients
- i/two loving cup (100 g) granulated carbohydrate
- i/4 cup (24 g) Dutch procedure cocoa powder (sift if clumpy)
- 2 Tbsp (eighteen g) cornstarch
- ane/four tsp salt
- two 1/2 cups (590 ml) whole milk
- three big egg yolks
- 3 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 Tbsp (28 g) unsalted butter, cut into one Tbsp pieces
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Topping (optional)
- 1/ii loving cup (120 ml) heavy cream, for serving
- i Tbsp (12 g) granulated saccharide
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan whisk together one/2 cup sugar, the cocoa pulverization, cornstarch together with table salt.
- Pour inwards milk together with egg yolks and whisk well.
- Cook mixture over medium-high rut, stirring constantly in addition to while scraping bottom as well as sides of pan with a safety spatula to foreclose peel from forming.
- Once mixture thickens slightly too comes to a simmer (alongside bubbling across top surface besides non but edges), reduce rut to medium-depression, straight off switch to a whisk and permit simmer xxx seconds spell whisking constantly.
- Remove from heat as well as right away strain mixture through a fine meshing strainer into a estrus proof bowl. Right away add together chocolate, butter in addition to vanilla patch mixture is even so really hot in addition to whisk until smooth.
- Cover mixture alongside a sail of plastic wrap spell pressing direct against the surface of pudding to foreclose a peel from forming.
- Chill four hours.
- Add heavy cream too one Tbsp carbohydrate to a medium bowl as well as whip amongst an electrical manus mixer on high speed until stiff peaks class.
- Stir pudding a few times then spoon into individual serving dishes, pinnacle amongst whipped cream in addition to garnish alongside shaved chocolate.
Notes
- To shave chocolate hither you lot can either role a vegetable peeler (running it along the cease of a bar of chocolate), or grate chocolate on the pocket-sized holes of a box grater.
Nutrition Facts
Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 419
Calories from Fat 243
% Daily Value*
Fat 27g42%
Saturated Fat 16g100%
Trans Fat 1g
Cholesterol 169mg56%
Sodium 187mgeight%
Potassium 360mg10%
Carbohydrates 42g14%
Fiber 3g13%
Sugar 33g37%
Protein 8gsixteen%
Vitamin A 843IU17%
Vitamin C 1mgane%
Calcium 185mgnineteen%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates only. See total disclaimer hither.