Homemade Chocolate Pudding

I made some homemade pudding for our dessert tonight.  If you've never made homemade pudding before, you're really missing out.  Mostly missing out on copious amounts of sodium and chemicals, but also missing out on really yummy chocolate taste!  Here's what you need...

 

Ingredients:

1/2C Sugar

2 Egg Yolks

3T Corn Starch

3C Milk (I used 2%, but whole is creamier)

5oz Semisweet Chocolate Chips (can substitute 1/4C cocoa powder)

Pinch Salt

1T Vanilla Extract

Start by throwing your egg yolks, sugar and corn starch in a 

large bowl and stirring or whisking together well. Set aside.

In a saucepan, pour your milk, add in your pinch of salt and chocolate.

I used mini chocolate chips so they'd melt easily.  Still took a long time.

Over medium heat, stir constantly until chocolate is melted.

Should look something like this.

Take a cup full of hot chocolate mixture (which is essentially hot 

chocolate.  You could just drink it now) and put it in your egg mixture.

Give it a quick stir to temper the eggs so they won't cook.

Add the rest of your hot chocolate mixture and whisk together well.

Now pour the whole bowl back into the pan.

Cook over medium heat until thick.  This took mine around 7-8 minutes.

Stir the entire time, scraping the bottom.  You don't want a full boil or it will burn.

 I stopped whisking just for a second so you could see how it looks.

I know it's boiling a tad, but it was just for the picture.  Don't let

it sit and boil without stirring at all or it will scorch and be lumpy. 

Turn down heat if necessary.

Remove from heat and add 1T Vanilla.  Stir well.

Pour into dishes and cover with plastic wrap right on top, so no

skin forms.  Or, be lazy like me and use these handy cups with

lids, then wipe the sweat off a couple of times before dinner, lol!

Refrigerate for at least a couple of hours and serve!

Notes:

This was so good, I had to try it while it was still warm.  So yummy!  Reminds me of my great grandma Elsie's but without the lumps, lol!  Serve it up with some whipped cream if desired, but it doesn't need it.

Let's compare prices to store bought.  Turns out the 5.9oz box of instant only makes 6 (1/2C) servings.  Mine makes 8 (1/2C) servings.  The total for my homemade, incredibly scrumptious pudding is $1.09, or 13.6 cents a serving.  To make the same amount of instant, it would come to $1.92  and cost 24 cents a serving....almost, not quite, twice as much! 

And think of what you're NOT getting in mine....Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Disodium Phosphate (For Thickening), Less Than 2% Of Natural And Artificial Flavor,  Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate (For Thickening), Mono- And Diglycerides (Prevent Foaming),  BHA (Preservative).*   Mmmmmm, sounds yummy, right?     *Taken directly from a box of instant chocolate pudding.  Wellllll, I suppose you're getting some crap in the chocolate, but nothing like this!

Now let's compare the salt. Boxed instant pudding has a whopping 420mg Sodium PER 1/2C Serving!!!  That's alarming!  Mine has a pinch (approx. 1/16th of a teaspoon) in the whole batch, which comes to around 147mg for the whole thing, or just 18mg sodium per serving.  The difference is unreal!  Store-bought contains TWENTY THREE times the amount of sodium as the homemade.  It's shocking, really!  They have to use all that salt to make up what it's lacking in real flavor from real ingredients.

Is instant more convenient?  Of course! Does it taste as good? Doesn't even come close!  The homemade one is so rich and thick, you could use it as a pie filling.  Tastes like heaven! 

Try making some for your family today!  It's a real old-fashioned treat!

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