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EASY Homemade Chocolate Pudding

April 1, 2011 By: Stephanie15 Comments

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Microwave chocolate pudding. Only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes to an easy , warm chocolate dessert!

I modified this recipe to create my own homemade chocolate pudding. I’m totally claiming it as “my” recipe now because it worked! Yay! Love it when that happens (Plus I Googled chocolate pudding recipes & I couldn’t find any others made with NesQuick Powder, so I’m totally original, right? ;P)

Why do you need a simple pudding recipe?

Because who needs to be spending an hour in front of the stove & the double boiler?

Also, I know I can buy pudding (and I usually do) but homemade is always better, right?

and, honestly, this is just as easy as the box mixes and it tastes better.

This recipe takes less than 10 minutes and it’s a good activity to do with kids.

Ok, on to the recipe:

3 tablespoons of cornstarch
1 cup of Nesquick powder (or Ovaltine or hot chocolate mix or whatever)
2 cups of milk (I used 1%)
2 tsp vanilla extract

Whisk the cornstarch & chocolate powder together in a microwave safe bowl.
Slowly whisk in the milk.
Microwave for 3 minutes, then stir.
Microwave one more minute, then stir.
Continue microwaving & stirring at one minute intervals until it stops looking like chocolate milk and starts looking and feeling like pudding. (for me, this happened after 2 minutes)
Stir in vanilla.

Refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap.

See? Wasn’t that easy? This recipe makes about 4 servings.

Try it! You won’t be sorry…unless you’re on a diet, but I promise not to tell.

You will go back to this recipe again & again. It’s super thick & chocolatey, almost like your average pudding and your average brownie got together and had a baby. That baby is this pudding. It only lasts in the fridge for about 24 hours, though. After that it gets kind of clumpy.

Next Eddie wants me to try making Nutella pudding. How amazing does that sound?

Tip: Premix corn starch and chocolate powder in Ziploc bags & store in the pantry with directions to add 2 cups of milk, microwave, then add vanilla. If you make the labels pretty you could give them away as teacher or hostess gifts.

If there is any pudding left over, you can use it to make my 3 Ingredient Fudge Pops:

3 ingredient fudgepops.

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Comments

  1. Holly says

    April 5, 2011 at 10:19 am

    Yummy! Brilliant idea, Stephanie, and the nutella version I’m sure would be soooo good.
    Thanks for joining my party!

    Reply
  2. Beth@The Stories of A to Z says

    April 11, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    This is fantastic! Excited to try it ;).

    Reply
  3. A Girl says

    April 17, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    Yum! Can’t wait to try this out!

    Reply
  4. J says

    May 28, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    Good idea to get rid of chocolate drink mix. Believe the cornstarch amount should be 3 tablespoons, not 3 teaspoons , however.

    Recipe halves nicely. Microwave time 2 minutes plus 1 minute should do it.

    Reply
  5. stephaniegiese says

    June 1, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    Thank you, J. I fixed that typo.

    Reply
  6. Alex says

    March 29, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    Can I use cocoa powder? Instead of the chocolate mix powder?

    Reply
    • Stephanie says

      March 29, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      I have never tried. I imagine you could, but it wouldn’t be as sweet as it would if you were using a product like Nesquick.

      Reply
  7. Joyce says

    May 9, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    Proper grammar: it’s “your,” which is singular possessive, not “you’re,” which is a contraction for ‘you are.’

    Reply
  8. Nicole says

    July 13, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    My daughter tried this and I think doing the last 2 minutes was a minute too long for us. Had we eaten it warm it probably would’ve been perfect but we stuck it in the fridge where it cooled to a Jello consistency, too thick for my kids’ taste. Instead of tossing it, I put it in my popsicle molds and froze it. Perfect fudge pops!

    Reply
  9. Tracye says

    September 10, 2021 at 1:20 am

    Made this tonight..it’s quick and delicious..I halved the recipe and did add a square of dark baking chocolate and ate it warm with whipped cream..yumm. Thank you for the recipe.

    Reply
    • Stephanie says

      September 17, 2021 at 3:19 pm

      So glad you liked it!

      Reply

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