Making chocolate pudding yourself is very easy! With our recipe, the chocolate pudding is ready almost as quickly as pudding from the bag and tastes incredibly intensely of chocolate.
After making chocolate pudding for the first time, we never bought one again. A homemade chocolate pudding with fresh chocolate has a much more aromatic taste and a much creamier texture than ready-made products from the bag or the refrigerator shelf. The chocolatey dessert is ready in just 10 minutes. Served with fruit, cream or vanilla sauce, you’ll have a pretty dessert in your glass in no time!
5 reasons for the best homemade chocolate pudding
Making pudding with chocolate yourself according to our recipe offers many advantages over the purchased versions. The dessert, like a lava cake with a liquid chocolate center, is great for guests.
- The taste: Once you’ve made your own pudding, you won’t want any more from the bag or from the refrigerated shelf, we promise. This also applies to our homemade vanilla pudding recipe.
- Ingredients: Instead of long lists of ingredients, you know exactly what’s in your dessert: few natural ingredients and guaranteed no additives, preservatives or artificial flavors! You can determine the quality of the ingredients yourself.
- Health awareness: Should homemade chocolate pudding be sugar-free or lower in sugar? No problem, just replace the sugar with birch sugar, erythritol or coconut sugar. For fewer calories, swap the cream for more milk. Would you like a lactose-free pudding? This is very easy with lactose-free milk or plant milk!
- Variations: Just use your favorite chocolate! Whether white chocolate, whole milk or dark chocolate, the homemade pudding recipe tastes great! For the white version we would double the chocolate and leave out the cocoa. After cooking, when the pudding has cooled down a little, you can also stir in chocolate chips, roasted nuts or coconut pieces.
- Fun: Last but not least, it’s also a lot of fun to make the chocolate pudding yourself. It’s a great way to relax after a stressful day at work and as a result you’ll be rewarded with a great dessert!
If you prefer fruity instead of chocolatey, you can also try our quick lemon cream!
Making your own chocolate pudding is very easy! The chocolate pudding is ready almost as quickly as pudding from the bag and tastes incredibly intensely like chocolate.
Suitable recipe recommendations
- 1 pot
- 1 whisk
- 1 small bowl
150G
Information for 4 portions
- Mix cornstarch, sugar and cocoa in a small bowl.
2 tbsp cornstarch, 2 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp cocoa
- Add cream and stir with a whisk.
100g cream
- Pour the milk into a pot. Cut the chocolate into small pieces and add it to the milk. Bring to the boil while stirring.
400 g milk, 50g chocolate
- Stir the dry ingredients into the boiling milk. Bring to the boil again and simmer for 1-2 minutes while stirring, depending on how thick you like the pudding.
- You can put a sample on a small plate or the back of a spoon. Allow to cool briefly and check the consistency.
- Then pour the pudding into dessert bowls, let it cool and serve with cream, fruit, red fruit jelly or vanilla or chocolate sauce to taste.
Tips:
- If you have a sweet tooth and like things very sweet, you can also use about half as much sugar or chocolate!
- The recipe is enough for 2 large or 4 small portions.
Variation ideas:
- Just use your favorite chocolate! Whether white chocolate, whole milk or dark chocolate, the homemade pudding tastes simply great! For the white version we would double the chocolate and leave out the cocoa.
- The milk can be replaced with coconut milk or plant-based drink for a vegan chocolate pudding.
- We like to make our chocolate pudding recipe with a portion of cream so that the dessert becomes really creamy. A leaner version works just as well with milk instead of cream.
- You can also replace the sugar in the chocolate pudding with birch sugar, erythritol or coconut sugar.
- After cooking, when the pudding has cooled down a little, you can stir in chocolate chips, roasted nuts or coconut pieces.
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Pinterest flyer for our chocolate pudding
Here you can save our recipe for the creamy chocolate pudding on Pinterest so that you always have it on hand when you want to make a dessert with chocolate or a quick snack yourself.
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