Chocolate Pudding

By RoketJSquerl

Ingredients

• 5 cups whole milk
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate (70% cocoa), finely chopped

Details

Servings 8
Preparation time 25mins
Cooking time 25mins
Adapted from seriouseats.com

Preparation

Step 1

In a medium saucepan, vigorously whisk together milk, cream, egg yolks, sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch, and salt.

Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until warm, 3-4 minutes.

Add chocolate and continue to cook, whisking constantly, until pudding begins to thicken, 14-15 minutes. (Once you can lift the whisk from the pudding and it leaves a faint shadow, it's done. The pudding will seem fairly loose, but it will thicken up further as it chills.)

Strain the pudding through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing pudding through sieve with a silicone spatula.

Cool at room temperature for 10 minutes, press a layer of plastic wrap onto the surface of the pudding, and chill until completely cold, 2 hours.