Chocolate Pudding

  OH MY GOBSTOPPERS!!! 70 VIEWS! I don't know who's reading this, or if you've even tried the recipes, but I love you! I would love to have more feedback though. Cause what good are the views if no one comments? Just a thought.

  Just a shoutout to anyone who doesn't like to do a lot of reading; this is a long one. So if you don't want to read my pointlessly long blog post, no hard feelings and you can just go ahead and scroll down to the recipe.

  Anyways, I'm sure you guys remember the Pumpkin Pie recipes, right? Yeah. So when I was making pie I made too much pie crust dough. So I used the extra dough to make an empty pie shell. Because, you know what tastes better than pumpkin pie? Chocolate pudding pie! Yes, thats right. Fellow chocolate lovers REJOICE!!

  Also, does anybody remember my younger sister Jessie? She first made an appearance in the Divine Mud Pie post. Well, she had never made chocolate pudding. Now when I say chocolate pudding, I do NOT mean the store bought stuff that comes in the handy dandy little packages. Add milk and stir. No! I mean the messy, cocoa covering the floor, stir until your arm falls off kind of pudding

  Well Jessie, still living in the bliss of childish naivety, thought it would be great fun to make chocolate pudding for the first time. Typically I would say no, not because I love making pudding (duh), but because I just love to cook anything that has suagr in it. But I guess deja vu had softened my heart. I was about to say no until I remembered that my first time making chocolate pudding from scratch was also for a pie.

  So basically what I just wasted ten minutes of your time trying to lead up to, is that I let my sister mix the pudding. Big mistake.     

  Jessie must've misread the recipe, because after the pudding was poured into the pie and let sit for 3 hours, then let sit for another hour in the fridge; it still hadn't set. Yes. Thats right. No one was really supervising her, because she said she wanted to do it all by herself, so we don't really know for sure what happened, but we're pretty positive that she didn't put in enough cornstarch.

  So all this pointless explaining is to,

1. Teach you about cornstarch (make sure you have enough!),

2. Provide you with a slightly amusing story,

And 3. To inform you as to why the picture looks so terrible.

  Yes. This was all to explain why my piece of pie looks like chocolate water topped with whipped cream.

  But now no more stalling. On to the recipe. This is probably the simplest chocolate pudding recipe in the world (I am not joking. You would have to be seriously hard pressed to find a simpler one. Just kidding. There isn't one.). It's very smooth if done right, and can be served on top of pancakes and waffles, poured into a pie shell, or just eaten plain with some graham crumbs and Nutri Whip (Yes I use fake whipped cream. And I regret nothing!).

 

Ingredients:

3 cups milk

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cornstarch

1/4 cup cocoa

 

Directions:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a pot that's big enought that stirring won't make a huge mess.

2. Cook on a medium heat, stirring constantly, until it boils.

3. Remove from heat and stir for about another 5 minutes.

 

Little tips from me:

Do NOT stop stirring at any cost. It will stick to the bottom of the pot and burn. If it burns you have ruined the whole batch.

 

  So let me know how your pudding turns out. Dont be shy, becausw I guarantee you, it will not be as bad as my first attempt. I'm talking an inch of baked on pudding at the bottom of the pot. Hehehe. Tell me though, is it possible? Was your fail more spectacular than mine?