Monday, July 23, 2012

Homemade Chocolate Pudding - Recipe Monday

I love pudding. And when I say love, I really mean LOVE. But I hate pudding mixes with artificial flavors, colors, or worse gelatin. For some time I found myself searching the internet for chocolate pudding recipes and as you can probably guess there are tons and tons of recipes out there. Some use eggs (I found recipes using up to 6 eggs), avocado (as a secret ingredient), others use silken tofu. I don't like eggs. Everything about them grosses me out. I did not have avocados at hand, and well I was doubtful. Silken tofu is hard to come by in a place that will give you ten different kind of tortillas and twenty types of beans, but only one type of Matzos (the cardboard kind). So,well, I gave up until the Vegan Zombie posted a vegan pudding recipe. I modified the amount of sugar used in the recipe quite a bit because I like to eat a bowl of pudding and not just a spoonful. But trust me, the pudding is still plenty sweet...

Here is what you will need:
  • 3 cups of soy milk (plain)
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • pinch of salt
  And here is what you need to do:
  1. Add milk to a saucepan and turn the heat to medium. Whisk in cocoa powder and cornstarch until well combined. Then whisk in the sugar until dissolved.
  2. Keep stirring over medium heat until the mixture thickens.
  3. After it thickens, bring it to a boil and keep stirring for another minute or two.
  4. Remove from heat, pour pudding into ramekins or bowls. Let cool (or eat it when it is still warm if you prefer your pudding warm).
Hope you give it a try and let me know what you think. 

1 comment:

  1. MMMM,...a classic one but a really tasty one! :)

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