Easy Chocolate Pudding For Two

This Chocolate Pudding for Two is absolutely indulgent and decadent and one of the easiest things in the world to make.

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Good morning! How are you on this fine Friday? Feeling a little harried from the holidays? Run down by the work week? If that’s the case, I have a little weekend pick-me-up for you today: the best, easiest, most amazing Chocolate Pudding for Two.

And if you’re sitting there, nose crinkled, remembering bland pudding eaten in school cafeterias out of little plastic cups, thinking you outgrew chocolate pudding years ago, friend, I have great news for you. You’re never too old for good chocolate pudding (and this is Good Chocolate Pudding TM).

Chocolate pudding is the perfect grown-up dessert because it feels absolutely indulgent and decadent, but it’s low-stress to make, and the active cooking time is short. So you can throw together a fabulous pudding dessert quickly and get right back to whatever important grownup things you were doing like, I don’t know, chopping down trees or taxes.

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You're never too old for good chocolate pudding (and this is Good Chocolate Pudding)! | #chocolate | #dessert | #dessertfortwo | #pudding | - 4

I love this particular pudding recipe so much that it has actually appeared on the site twice before. Once as filling in my Brooklyn Blackout Cupcakes (if you like chocolate, you must go try those) and this summer as the base of my Homemade Pudding Pops , but today it’s time to let the pudding be pudding.

And letting this pudding be the star of the show is never a bad thing. Deeply chocolatey and creamy, rich, and not too sweet, it’s a dessert to linger over. Just add good company, and you have the makings of a perfect evening.

How to Make Chocolate Pudding

Chocolate pudding really is one of the easiest desserts in existence. If you can hold a whisk, you can make this pudding. You just take said whisk and mix together sugar, cornstarch, salt, and milk over low heat until thickened, melt in some semisweet chocolate, drizzle in a few drops of vanilla, and refrigerate until set. About twelve minutes of active cooking time and two to three hours of agonizing waiting for your pudding to set, and you can grab a spoon, pile on the whipped cream, and enjoy.

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Chocolate Pudding for Two Recipe Notes

This pudding can be made with any percentage milk, but the higher-fat the milk, the richer (and tastier) the pudding will be. If you only have low-fat milk, you can replace a bit of it with heavy cream or half and half for a richer finished product.
With homemade puddings, it’s completely normal to have some cornstarch lumps. You can strain them out with a fine-mesh strainer (if you don’t own one, they’re cheap on Amazon and also available in the baking aisle at most large grocery stores) or just leave them. They won’t hurt anything.
To make chocolate shavings for topping, run a vegetable peeler down the short edge of a chocolate bar.

Looking for more chocolate desserts for two? Try these Chocolate Souffles for Two , Peanut Butter Brownies for Two , and Small-batch Chocolate Cupcakes .

Ingredients

Special Equipment

▢ Fine-mesh strainer

Chocolate Pudding for Two

▢ 1/4 cup ( 50g ) granulated sugar
▢ 2 tablespoons ( 15g ) cornstarch
▢ 1/8 teaspoon salt
▢ 1 1/2 cups milk whole preferred, but any percentage is fine
▢ 1/2 cup ( 3oz ) semisweet chocolate chopped (good-quality chocolate chips are fine)
▢ 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Toppings

▢ Whipped Cream optional
▢ Chocolate shavings optional

Instructions

In a 2-quart (small) saucepan, whisk together sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Slowly whisk in milk, whisking out any lumps as they form.
Heat over medium-low heat, whisking every other minute or so, until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, 8 to 12 minutes. If the mixture begins to simmer before thickened, turn down the heat slightly.
Add chocolate and whisk until completely incorporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in vanilla.
Strain pudding through a fine mesh strainer to remove any lumps. Pour into individual serving cups or single container and allow to cool at room temperature for at least 15 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap–if you are worried about pudding skin, place wrap directly on pudding surface–and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours, until set.
Top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings if desired and enjoy!

Notes

Adapted from Smitten Kitchen

Let’s celebrate! Baking Mischief turns two years old today!

Happy Friday! Did you have a good work week? Today is an exciting day around here, because today, Baking Mischief turns two years old! December 1, 2015, I hit publish on my first recipe, Butterscotch Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies , and now two years, hundreds of recipes, and millions (millions!!) of visitors later, here we are.

Thank you to those of you who have been following along from the beginning and to those who joined up along the way. There is no way Baking Mischief would be here today without your support.

I know that I don’t write as much personal and behind-the-scenes stuff on the blog as many bloggers (guys, I’m shy), so I thought that to celebrate two years of Baking Mischief, I would share a little more than usual and tell you some fun facts you might not know about the site.

Interested? Here we go.

20 Things You Might Not Know About Baking Mischief

There are currently 265 posts on the site. 27 Weekend Posts (which I think are going to come back–stay tuned), 19 round-ups, 12 miscellaneous, and 207 recipes. Of those recipes, 96 are full-size, 94 are small-batch or recipes for two, and 17 are recipes for one.
Baking Mischief was almost a fandom food blog. My first vision for the site was one where I focused solely on film, television, and book-related recipes. I decided against it pretty quickly, but in some alternate timeline, it’s Nerd Month all day every day around here and the blog is called Fannish Kitchen (actual then-available name I considered).
Other names that might have been: Fangirl in the Kitchen, Windy Side of Care, As it Please Me (I was going through a Much Ado About Nothing phase with those last two), and My Best Vices (what?? why??).

Lomo Saltado is tender stir-fried beef sirloin, red onions, and tomatoes served with baked french fries and white rice. Carb lovers, you have to try this one! - 10

Between Hannibal’s Lomo Saltado and Sanguinaccio Dolce , and my Game of Thrones Frey Pie , I believe Baking Mischief has the most cannibal recipes of any of the mainstream food blogs. If that’s not something to be proud of, I don’t know what is. 😉
And I’ve mentioned before that despite being absolutely delicious, Lomo Saltado is one of the least popular recipes on the site for some reason (though the Frey Pie is really popular). Other recipes I love that haven’t yet caught on include:

Homemade Pudding Pops (SO good)
Basil Chicken Pasta for Two (One of my tastiest, quickest, easiest weeknight dinner recipes)
BLT Salad (It has croutons cooked in BACON GREASE!!)

I chose to die on Panini/Panino hill. This was a mistake.
I learned my lesson, and the official Baking Mischief Style Guide allows both donut and doughnut .
There is an official Baking Mischief Style guide.
This is my favorite Pinterest caption I’ve ever come across for one of my recipes.

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Let's celebrate! Baking Mischief turns two years old today! - 13

And this the funniest recipe feature I’ve received.
99% of the technical skills required to build and run this website were acquired playing Neopets in the aughts. The other 1% was a 1-unit CSS class I took in college.
There aren’t and probably never will be any seafood recipes for people on the site (there is a tuna High-value Dog Treats recipe for dogs). I’m not a huge seafood fan, and the only thing I know how to cook is dishwasher salmon .
The first (and one of the only) free products I’ve accepted since starting the blog were a couple of bully sticks for Ella just because I thought it was funny to tell people that free bull penises were one of the perks of having a food blog.

It took a couple minutes (and a few hilariously awkward photos) for Ella to figure out how to eat these #bestbullysticks but now she’s gnawing on them like a pro. She definitely gives them an A++ review! A post shared by Tracy (@bakingmischief) on Apr 27, 2016 at 3:44pm PDT

Small luxuries for the kitchen, the perfect gifts for friends and family who love to cook.

It’s my favorite time of year again, gift guide season! There’s nothing I love better than reading through prettily arranged lists of items recommended by my favorite bloggers, trying to match presents to people on my list and secretly just making an extra long list for myself. And as is tradition around here, I’m back this year with another incredibly specific gift guide of my own. (I know, I’m excited about it too!! 😉 ) Last year, it was Nerdy Mugs , and this year, it’s Small Luxuries for the Kitchen.

What are small luxuries? They are the little items that might never quite make their way into someone’s budget, but that would make their time in the kitchen just a little easier or more enjoyable. Every single item on this list falls into the category of I didn’t think I needed this, but now I don’t know how I ever lived without it . And I think that’s the very best category to gift from.

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Small luxuries for the kitchen, the perfect gifts for friends and family who love to cook. | #giftguide | |#Christmas | - 15

Cookie Scoops // Because perfectly even, perfectly shaped cookies are a luxury everyone deserves.
Butter Warmer // What’s the point of a tiny, tiny pot? To make hot chocolate of course, and lattes and cheese sauce and everything else good in this world.
Cookbook/iPad Stand // Keep your cookbooks and tablets safe from spills and easily accessible.
Silicon Baking Mats // Be kind to the planet (no more parchment paper!) and never burn the bottoms of your cookies again.
Immersion Blender // You don’t think you need an immersion blender until own one, and then you won’t know how you ever got by without it.
Spoon Rest // Put my cooking spoon on a plate? What am I, a peasant? Give me a dedicated spoon rest or nothing.
Kitchen Speaker // Phone speakers are good, but a Bluetooth kitchen speaker is better. Jam out or play your favorite podcasts while you make something delicious.

What’s on your Christmas list this year?