#46 Chocolate Pudding

I have already made vanilla pudding, so now I wanted to try homemade chocolate. I love warm chocolate pudding so my hopes were high for this recipe.

Chocolate Pudding

4 cups whole milk
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
6 oz. chocolate, roughly chopped, semi-sweet or bittersweet

1. Combine 3 cups of milk with the sugar and salt in a heavy-bottomed medium saucepan and set over medium-low heat. Heat until just steaming, stirring frequently.

2. In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine the cornstarch with the remaining 1 cup of milk. Stir well until mixture is fairly lump free.

3. Raise heat to medium high. Add the cornstarch mixture and cook constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture starts to bubble. Reduce heat to low and stir continuously until the mixture thickens and coats the back of the wooden spoon. About 5-7 minutes.

4. Add your chopped chocolate and stir until melted. I used semi-sweet chocolate chips.

 

 

5. Pour pudding into dishes to cool. If you do not like pudding skin, press a piece of plastic wrap against the surface of the pudding.

 

 



 

Serve when cooled. I like my pudding warm, so I don't wait too long before eating mine.
So did the pudding meet my high expectations......not exactly. I liked it, but it really is only as good as your chocolate. Don't get me wrong, I love Nestlé's Tollhouse Morsels, but I like them better in cookies. I actually like the cook and serve chocolate box stuff better. My family liked it. Maybe if I had some fine chocolate to use...I would like it better.