How to Make Quick Homemade Chocolate Pudding

This chocolate pudding is so easy and so much better than the kind from the box. Read on to learn more.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 3/4 cups milk (whole or 2%)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

1. Mix the cornstarch with 1/4 cup of the milk until smooth in a small bowl and set aside.

2. Mix sugar, cocoa, and 1/4 cup of the milk until smooth in a pot.

3. Add the rest of the milk and the cornstarch mixture to the pot.

4. Heat over medium heat, stirring, until the mixture comes to a boil.

5. Boil for one minute.

6. Remove from heat and add vanilla.

7. Ladle pudding into four small serving bowls and chill in refrigerator until set, about two hours.

Tips & Warnings

• Dutch-process and natural cocoa powders are very different--try both to see what you like.
• For a variation, use almond extract instead of vanilla.
• Be careful when heating--chocolate burns easily.