Chocolate Pudding
993kcal17.5g protein43.3g fat141.5g carbs~$2.53/ serving*Estimates computed from the ingredient list; cost uses average US supermarket prices. Not a substitute for packaging measurements or your receipt.
Contains dairy · sometimes contains soy — check the label
Restrictions
ContainsdairyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.
Sometimes contains — check the labelsoy (chocolate dark)Some brands have it, some do not. The recipe cannot tell, so this is the one you check yourself.
Diets
VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol · check
Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.
Ingredients
Servings:
| ⅔ cup |  sugar |
| ⅓ cup |  cocoa powder |
| ¼ cup |  cornstarch |
| ¼ tsp | salt |
| 3 cup |  milk (whole) |
| 4 oz |  chocolate (dark, chopped) |
| 2 tbsp |  butter |
| 1 ½ tsp |  vanilla extract |
Optional
Not counted above. The dish works without them.
| ½ cup |  whipped cream (barely sweet, on top) |
Steps
- Whisk3 mindry goods first, then milk in a slow stream, OFF heatsugar + cocoa + cornstarch + salt whisked together dry — the dry blend is lump insurance: cornstarch and cocoa both clump on contact with liquid, and dispersing them in sugar first is the trick that saves the strainer later — then the milk streamed in with the whisk moving
- Simmer10 minmedium, whisked CONSTANTLY, to a full visible boil, then 1 minute morethe pot over medium heat with the whisk never resting, through thickening and all the way to real bubbles breaking the surface — and held there one full minute: cornstarch only finishes its work at a boil, and the pudding pulled at 'looks thick' un-sets itself in the refrigerator by midnight, the recipe's one classic heartbreak
- Fold3 minoff heat: chocolate + butter + vanilla stirred to glossthe chopped chocolate and butter melted into the hot base — the double delivery: cocoa built the deep frame, and the real chocolate arrives now with the body and shine the box version has spent decades trying to fake
- Rest130 minportioned, surface covered (or not — the skin schism), chilled 2+ hoursinto cups, plastic pressed directly onto the surface for the silk faction or left bare for the skin faction — the entry refuses to referee a war this old — and chilled until properly cold; spooned with barely-sweet whipped cream, it is the box's memory corrected