Kid Chef: Bittersweet Chocolate Pudding (from scratch) (recipe)

by Kitchen Gadget Girl

Today we made pudding. Bittersweet chocolate pudding. A favorite from when I was first living on my own. The recipe comes from Puddings Custards and Flans by Linda Zimmerman, and the original recipe calls for white chocolate chunks, but we are not fans of white chocolate, so we left that out. Otherwise, the recipe is easy to make and Kid Chef was surprised the recipe went so fast.

Recipe: Bittersweet Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

  • 6 TBS Dutch-process cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 TBS cornstarch
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 2 1/3 cups milk
  • 3 large egg yolks
  • 1 ounce bittersweet chocolate (we used Scharffenberger)
  • 1 TBS unsalted butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

In heavy saucepan, dissolve the cocoa, sugar, cornstarch and salt in 3/4 cup milk. Whisk in egg yolks, remaining milk and bittersweet chocolate. Cook slowly over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the pudding begins to thicken and comes to a slow boil. Cook 1 minute more, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in butter and vanilla.

Pour into serving dish. The original recipe says to cover top with plastic wrap to keep a skin from forming, but we don’t do that because we like homemade pudding skin. So there.

Cool and refrigerate. Or, if you just can’t wait, eat it warm. It does not matter, it is pudding.

6 comments

  1. Vijitha Shyam

    April 8, 2011 at 3:25 am

    Found your blog through SFO bake sale website. I am sure I will be visiting your space often.

  2. Maris (In Good Taste)

    April 8, 2011 at 5:00 am

    You cannot imagine how good that looks to me!

  3. Kitchen Gadget Girl

    April 8, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    welcome and thanks for visiting! Did you also participate in the Bakesale for Japan?

  4. Kitchen Gadget Girl

    April 8, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Depending on how life was treating me at any given moment, I would often come home from work and make this pudding and not wait until it cooled to eat it. So yummy. Give it a try Maris, I think you deserve it! 🙂

  5. Sarah

    April 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Looks divine!

  6. Jane - Kitchen Stools Direct

    April 17, 2011 at 8:33 am

    wow this is yummy! seems simple to prepare too.
    and I agree.. pudding skin tastes delicious.. dont know what ppl have against it. thanks for this recipe.

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