Groceries are EXPENSIVE, aren't they? Let's Ditch the Box of chocolate pudding (and the snack pack cups) and make some ourselves. Let's make it DREAMY EASY and do it in the microwave. It takes maybe only 10 minutes and tastes the same (or better) than store bought pudding. Let's make Dreamy Easy Microwave Chocolate Pudding AT HOME MY WAY.
Dreamy Easy
Microwave Chocolate Pudding
(Homemade)
Servings: 3 (1/2 cup sized servings) or 2 large servings so double it if you are preparing this for a family.
INGREDIENTS:
- 4 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder (unsweetened)
- 6 Tablespoons Granulated White Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Corn Starch (flour would work just fine)
- 1 1/2 cups COLD Milk
- 1 Tablespoon butter or margarine (optional but I like to use)
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
- Pinch salt
EASY INSTRUCTIONS:
WHEN SELECTING A BOWL, you want room for the pudding to expand by at least double when it cooks.)
IN a glass microwave safe bowl, COMBINE cocoa powder, granulated white sugar, and corn starch. STIR WELL to combine all of the dry ingredients together.
ADD the COLD milk and stir with a whisk until it's as smooth as you can get it. (Don't worry. It won't be completely smooth.) (DO NOT include the butter or vanilla yet.)
HEAT in the microwave (on high) for about 35 seconds to 1 minute. ONCE heating up, stir well to combine ingredients again / smooth them out.
HEAT in the microwave again for 1 minute. STIR WELL again.
HEAT AGAIN in microwave another 1 to 2 minutes but WATCH it so it doesn't bubble over. It will start to swell when it really starts cooking so watch closely. This is when the thickening happens.
STIR. Pudding should be thicker now and you can stir/whip to get that thickness to incorporate all throughout the pudding. If not thick yet, microwave at small increments until it is thick but mine was thick at this point and I didn't cook it anymore. It will feel like gravy. In fact, sometimes chocolate pudding is call "chocolate gravy".
REMOVE it from the microwave if it is thickened and ADD 1 Tablespoon butter (or margarine) and the 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla. Stir until the butter melts and the vanilla/butter are both incorporated well into the pudding.
NOW COOL in the fridge - The pudding will thicken completely once cold - OR, you can eat it hot and yummy and not quite thick (over some delicious homemade biscuits or pancakes) but if you want thick pudding, it will need to be cold. I moved mine to a plastic, covered container for cooling overnight in the fridge. (Of course, I dipped some hot pudding out first to ladle over my biscuit for dessert before chilling the remainder overnight.)
THE CHIT-CHAT
- This Easy Microwave Chocolate Pudding (Homemade) is so much better than snack packs or box pudding!
- It is made with basic ingredients you probably already have at home. (I even used canned milk + water for the milk.)
- You will know every single ingredient in it! No hard to pronounce ingredients or food coloring in this pudding.
- You can make it almost any time if you have these basic ingredients in your pantry.
Here are the ingredients printed on a box of pudding mix:
I have read about making pudding in the microwave. I wasn't sure if it would really work and I usually cook my pudding on the stove. This is the recipe for Homemade Chocolate Pudding that I normally cook on the stove.
Last night, I wanted a "little something sweet". Does everyone else do that at about 8pm in the evening? Anyway - I love to make hot chocolate pudding, especially when I have some homemade biscuits ready to be nestled under that hot chocolate pudding for dessert. This was the case last night.
But, sometimes (a'hem), I have been known to cook my pudding on the stove while multi-tasking too many things and my chocolate pudding then sometimes sticks to the bottom of the pot, badly. It also may have happened once or twice that Doug has had to scour my stainless steal pudding pot with a brillo pad for a period of time to get the pudding off the bottom (that or throw away the pot) and I just didn't want that to happen! (Doug loves to do dishes so that's why he was taking care of this task.)
So - last night I already had some homemade biscuits and I decided that maybe microwaving chocolate pudding would not result in my pot turning into a tar pit so I gave it a "go".
How did it go making chocolate pudding in the microwave? IT WORKED! I was amazed! Wow!
#1 It was faster than cooking on the stove and by being faster in the time that the thin combo of ingredients started to thicken and turn into pudding..
#2 the pot didn't have time to create pudding tar in the bottom of my pot! The glass measuring cup that I used (a four cup Pyrex measuring cup) worked like a dream. After I transferred the hot pudding to a covered dish for cooling in the fridge, the glass dish cleaned right up in like two seconds. No stuck pudding, no mess, no brillo pad needed.
AMAZING! I will not be making pudding in a pot on the stove EVER AGAIN!
I am going to try my regular recipe in the microwave at some point but for now, this one works so this is the recipe that I'm going to use.
Mind you - it does not make a very big batch of pudding. But for a quick fix of "something sweet" at 8pm, I didn't have to get it from a box and I knew all of the ingredients in my pudding. Plus, I didn't have to go to Walmart to get some snack packs Jello Pudding when I wanted to be on the couch. All of the things I avoided are the reasons I will only be making Easy Microwave Chocolate Pudding from now on AT HOME MY WAY!
Enjoy!
Gina
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