Homemade Chocolate Pudding

This easy Homemade Chocolate Pudding is quick and easy to make and ready to serve in 10 minutes. Made with just 4 main ingredients, it’s fancy enough to serve to guests, but easy enough to make when you feel like a little treat!

 

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I love a good chocolate dessert and lucky for me, my family does too. Well except for my husband, he’s not that into chocolate. Despite this, I still married him.

So this recipe is for all my chocolate lovers out there! This deliciously rich and creamy dessert is so easy to make on the stovetop and it’s the perfect treat to serve after dinner. Wonderfully rich and creamy, it’s a must have recipe!

If you are a chocolate lover like me, be sure to check out my chocolate molten lava cakes and air fryer brownies. Treat yourself!

Chocolate Pudding Ingredients

You just need a few simple ingredients to make this yummy chocolate dessert!

• Cocoa powder
• Sugar
• Corn starch
• Salt 
• Milk

How To Make Homemade Chocolate Pudding

• Place a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add cocoa powder, sugar, and corn starch and whisk until thoroughly combined. You can add a pinch of salt at this time for amplifying the chocolate flavor a bit.

• Slowly whisk in milk, Pouring in about ½ of a cup at a time. Whisk until dissolved.

• Continue cooking over medium-low heat, whisking occasionally until the mixture has thickened and can coat the back of a metal spoon. This should take about 4-5 minutes.

• Place the chocolate pudding in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap or parchment paper that touches the surface, and chill until serving in bowls with some whipped cream. This step avoids the pudding from getting a skin once the air touches it.

What’s the best milk to use in this recipe?

I like to use 2% milk for this homemade chocolate pudding because it’s what I always have on my fridge. Whole milk could also be used. It makes this dessert wonderfully thick and creamy. If you use a thinner milk, like 1% or nonfat, the pudding may be more thin and soupy. Non dairy milks are best to be avoided in this recipe as they don’t thicken in the same way.

Can you make it ahead of time?

This chocolate pudding recipe is the perfect make ahead dessert. You can store it covered in the fridge for 5 to 7 days, making it a great treat to have on hand for whenever the chocolate craving strikes!

How do you serve it?

I like to serve this dessert in individual ramekins, a dollop of freshly whipped cream and some chocolate shavings. You can top it with all kinds of things like sprinkles, m&m’s or crushed salted pretzels.

This pudding also works really well as a pie filling. Simply add it to a pre baked pie crust and chill before serving.

Recipe Notes and Tips

• To avoid a lumpy pudding, very slowly add the milk whilst whisking. Combine each 1/2 cup of milk before adding the next.
• Keep the heat medium low. If it is too hot it can scorch the pudding and it will taste burnt.

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