Simple Chocolate Pudding

One of my favorite ways to use up extra milk is to make pudding. It is quick, simple, and SO delicious. I got up early yesterday morning to make some before the girls woke up. It came together beautifully, despite me! I seem to have a habit of not having the right amount (or the actual ingredient) on hand when I make things. Substitution rules! I didn’t have corn starch or arrowroot powder. No biggie! I have potato starch, I’ll just use that. Did you know that before you cook potato starch it tastes just like raw potatoes?!? My pudding started out tasting like raw chocolate potatoes. Bleh! I didn’t have enough cocoa powder either. Thankfully, cooking the pudding and adding a lot of chocolate chips took care of the raw potato flavor. The pudding turned out thick, smooth, and super creamy. Tim ate most of the bowl last night! So learn from my mistake and don’t use potato starch, but do try this amazing pudding recipe :) (Adapted from From Scratch Farmstead.)

I doubled the recipe when I made it, but forgot to remove the extra egg when I took the picture.

Ingredients

• Sugar

• Cocoa Powder

• Corn Starch or Arrowroot Powder

• Salt

• Milk

• Vanilla (optional)

• An Egg (optional)

• Chocolate Chips (optional)

Simple Chocolate Pudding

1/2 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Cocoa Powder

3 TBS of Corn Starch or Arrowroot Powder

1/4 tsp Salt

Mix together in a sauce pan.

2 3/4 cup Milk

Add a small amount of milk to the mixture in the sauce pan. Mix together until the cocoa mixture is all hydrated and pasty. (Cocoa powder mixes in so much easier this way!) Pour the rest of the milk in and mix together. Place on burner and turn the mixture on medium heat. Bring to a gentle boil stirring continuously. The mixture will start to thicken. Once it thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon, remove from heat.

Optional ingredients

1 Egg

1 tsp Vanilla

1/4 cup Chocolate Chips

Crack the egg into a bowl and beat thoroughly. Add a small amount of the pudding mixture to the egg and mix it in. (This heats the egg up a little so it doesn’t promptly scramble when you pour it into the hot pudding mixture.) Pour the egg into the pudding while stirring constantly. Add one teaspoon of vanilla and mix in. You can also add chocolate chips for even more of a rich chocolate flavor. Pour the chocolate chips in and stir until melted.

Pour into serving size portions, a bowl, or leave it in the pan and allow to cool. I prefer it cold, but if Tim is home, he usually doesn’t wait that long to eat it :)