Chocolate Pudding

I’ve wanted to make American ‘chocolate pudding’ for ages because the ‘pudding mix’ is used extensively in baking and we don’t have it over here. There are hundreds of recipes for pudding from scratch, but I settled on one from ‘Diner Desserts’. It’s actually a section of the recipe for Chocolate Cream Pie. It’s so rich, I can’t imagine a slice of it with cream on top, but you know… never say never.
Describing it isn’t as straightforward as it seems. I was expecting a set chocolate custard, but it wasn’t that, nor was it blancmange. Somewhere between blancmange and ganache and deeply, deeply pleasing. The most fun I’ve had with a whisk for ages. Probably.
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