Homemade English Chocolate Pudding

Submitted by Nif_H

"The English call any dessert a pudding, but this is really pudding! You can use your preference of milk, the more fat you use the richer it will be. I did not include the 3 hour chill time. Enjoy this chilled dessert after any meal. Enjoy!"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 3 cups milk
• 3⁄4 cup semisweet chocolate, chopped finely (you can use anything from generic chocolate chips to a high quality chocolate, you get what you pay )
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• whipped cream, to garnish
• chocolate shavings, to garnish

directions

1. Scald milk in a saucepan over medium low heat (bring it almost to a boil in a thick bottomed saucepan, stirring constantly). Remove from heat, immediately add chocolate and stir until it has melted.
2. Whisk together eggs, sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a large bowl. I would get these ready in the bowl before I prepare the milk.
3. Add the warm chocolate milk mixture in a slow stream, whisking contents in the bowl constantly and then pour mixture back into pot.
4. Cook gently over medium heat, stirring constantly with wooden spoon for 5 to 10 minutes or until mixture thickens.
5. Divide pudding among six ramekins or small bowls, cover tightly with plastic wrap and chill for at least 3 hours and up to 2 days. Serve puddings topped with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

Reviews

[I'mPat]

I made for a 4 serve recipe but got 6 serves, my sweet bowls are small but only used 1 large egg (the recipe called for 1 1/3 scaled back to 4 serves) and used a good quality Lindt milk chocolate but the taste of the chocolate did not come ouut as much as we would have liked, will consider a dark chocolate next time (even the DM agreed to this one and usually prefers milk chocolate in recipes hence why I used milked chocolate) but still very enjoyable, thank you Nif, made for Went to Market tag game.

 

[Lucky in Bayview]

Really delicious pudding. For whatever reason, my pudding was a little gritty. I topped it with whipped cream and enjoyed every bite. Thanks for posting.

 

[PaulaG]

So much better than pudding out of a box. I used Ghirardelli chocolate chips that were blended in the Vita-Mix. After scalding the milk everything went back into the Vita-Mix for a quick blending before cooking on the stove top. The pudding was garnished with fresh strawberries.

 

[breezermom]

What's not to like? I decided to use a double-boiler so my pudding wouldn't seize up on me, since I sometimes have a problem with that. Lots of stirring, but with the double boiler, I was able to run open the door or answer the phone without horrible consequences! Delicious pudding. Thanks for sharing! Made for ZWT8.

 

[CJAY8248]

Other than the constant stirring time this was easy enough to make and tasted great. I used whole milk and chocolate chips. Thanks for sharing. Made for ZWT 8.