Make yourself and the people you love happy. How to make chocolate pudding.
In greedy ants:
1/2 cup of sugar (if you use a liquidy sugar like maple syrup, add more starch)
1/4 cup of starch (I use corn starch or rice flour)
3 tablespoons to 1/2 cup cocoa (you can use melted chocolate, but I can't remember what happened when I did it)
1/8 teaspoon of salt
2 3/4 cups milk (I've used cow, soy, rice, and a combination, and they all turned out all right, though COW seems the best)
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 or 2 tablespoons butter (TOTALLY optional-- it makes the pudding taste incredible, but it is already so good, you won't miss the butter) (really)
How you do it:
Whisk the first four ingredients (sugar, starch, cocoa, salt) together in a pot (one with a heavy bottom will keep it from scorching as easily). Make sure there aren't any lumps. Put the pot on medium heat and SLOWLY, SOOOOOO slowly, start to whisk the milk in. If you don't do it slowly, you will end up with dry lumps in your pudding and you will be sad. I usually add about 1/4 cup of the milk first and whisk it really well, then add the rest slowly...
Once all of the milk is thoroughly mixed in, ask someone with nothing better to do, "Hey, do you want to help make pudding?" Then have her whisk the pudding over medium heat for... oh, about an eternity. By the end, this person will not be very happy, but then she will eat the pudding and forget the hate.
Anyway... Yah, so this is the part that takes time and gets annoying, but you HAVE TO whisk the pudding as it heats, and make sure the BOTTOM OF THE PAN is getting scraped constantly or you will have BAD PUDDING. It will be lumpy and burned. Nobody will be happy.
It probably takes under ten minutes to get the pudding thick, but sometimes less and sometimes more. I think it's all relative. (thanks, Albert) When the pudding starts to thicken (you can check by sticking a spoon in, and if it coats the spoon, you're almost done! plus you get to lick the spoon-- but don't stick the licked spoon back in the pot because your salivary enzymes might make the pudding not set right-- no, really), anyWAY, once it starts to thicken, whisk for 1-2 minutes more.
Take the pot off the heat and whisk in the vanilla (and butter if you want). Spoon it into dishes and either eat it right then or put it in the fridge to get cold. Or both. It kind of depends on how many people are eating it-- this recipe makes a reasonable amount for the six of us, or makes an I-died-and-went-to-heaven amount for two.
And for god's sake, PLEASE don't forget to scrape the pot out with a spoon and eat what's left!!
My friend uses this recipe (with a little more starch and/or cooking) for a pie recipe.
Once I made this and layered it with homemade whipped cream, crushed Andes Candies, and crushed candy canes.... oh, and I added a little mint extract to the whipped cream. Yah. It was sickeningly good.
If you want to make something other than chocolate pudding, omit the cocoa powder and use the flavoring you like, though you might need to increase the starch a little. We made it vanilla flavored once, and it was awesome!
1/2 cup of sugar (if you use a liquidy sugar like maple syrup, add more starch)
1/4 cup of starch (I use corn starch or rice flour)
3 tablespoons to 1/2 cup cocoa (you can use melted chocolate, but I can't remember what happened when I did it)
1/8 teaspoon of salt
2 3/4 cups milk (I've used cow, soy, rice, and a combination, and they all turned out all right, though COW seems the best)
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 or 2 tablespoons butter (TOTALLY optional-- it makes the pudding taste incredible, but it is already so good, you won't miss the butter) (really)
How you do it:
Whisk the first four ingredients (sugar, starch, cocoa, salt) together in a pot (one with a heavy bottom will keep it from scorching as easily). Make sure there aren't any lumps. Put the pot on medium heat and SLOWLY, SOOOOOO slowly, start to whisk the milk in. If you don't do it slowly, you will end up with dry lumps in your pudding and you will be sad. I usually add about 1/4 cup of the milk first and whisk it really well, then add the rest slowly...
Once all of the milk is thoroughly mixed in, ask someone with nothing better to do, "Hey, do you want to help make pudding?" Then have her whisk the pudding over medium heat for... oh, about an eternity. By the end, this person will not be very happy, but then she will eat the pudding and forget the hate.
Anyway... Yah, so this is the part that takes time and gets annoying, but you HAVE TO whisk the pudding as it heats, and make sure the BOTTOM OF THE PAN is getting scraped constantly or you will have BAD PUDDING. It will be lumpy and burned. Nobody will be happy.
It probably takes under ten minutes to get the pudding thick, but sometimes less and sometimes more. I think it's all relative. (thanks, Albert) When the pudding starts to thicken (you can check by sticking a spoon in, and if it coats the spoon, you're almost done! plus you get to lick the spoon-- but don't stick the licked spoon back in the pot because your salivary enzymes might make the pudding not set right-- no, really), anyWAY, once it starts to thicken, whisk for 1-2 minutes more.
Take the pot off the heat and whisk in the vanilla (and butter if you want). Spoon it into dishes and either eat it right then or put it in the fridge to get cold. Or both. It kind of depends on how many people are eating it-- this recipe makes a reasonable amount for the six of us, or makes an I-died-and-went-to-heaven amount for two.
And for god's sake, PLEASE don't forget to scrape the pot out with a spoon and eat what's left!!
My friend uses this recipe (with a little more starch and/or cooking) for a pie recipe.
Once I made this and layered it with homemade whipped cream, crushed Andes Candies, and crushed candy canes.... oh, and I added a little mint extract to the whipped cream. Yah. It was sickeningly good.
If you want to make something other than chocolate pudding, omit the cocoa powder and use the flavoring you like, though you might need to increase the starch a little. We made it vanilla flavored once, and it was awesome!
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