Chocolate Pudding Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated December 07, 2016
Credit: © Tina Rupp
Take your pick from any one of our variations of chocolate pudding. Recipes include a dark-chocolate pudding with candied ginger, a silky double-chocolate pudding, a Mayan chocolate pudding spiced with ground habanero chiles and more.
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Chocolate Pot de Crème with Candied Brioche Whipped Cream

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Chef Gavin Kaysen of Minneapolis's Spoon & Stable created this dessert in honor of his grandmother Dorothy. "She used to make a big bowl of chocolate pudding and then set it in the middle of the table with a handful of spoons," he recalls.

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Rich Baked Chocolate Puddings

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Although this deep, dark chocolate pudding is easily made in ramekins, it's fun to bake and serve in small glass jars. Pim Techamuanvivit likes using old, mismatched jam jars.

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Dark-Chocolate Pudding with Candied Ginger

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"For me, ginger should be everywhere," says Jean-Georges Vongerichten. "It's as good in marinades and vinaigrettes as it is in dessert." Here, candied ginger garnishes dark-chocolate pudding.

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Deep, Dark Chocolate Pudding

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This pudding is one component of a seven-part dessert at Cafe Gray in New York City, where executive pastry chef Chris Broberg serves it in a chocolate-coffee tuile alongside figs in port and candied orange peel, among other sweets.

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Mayan Chocolate Pudding

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This simple chocolate pot de creme is spiced with cinnamon and allspice. A touch of ground habanero chiles that were dried over an open fire gives it a slightly smoky flavor. If dried habanero is not available, cayenne is a good alternative.

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Bittersweet Chocolate Puddings

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This is not the usual velvety whole-egg stovetop pudding. While the ingredients are virtually the same, folding the beaten whites into the mixture and baking the puddings in a water bath makes this dessert mousse-like with a crusty top.

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Dark Chocolate Pudding

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Since the pudding has so few ingredients, Spike Gjerde insists that they be of high quality: For the chocolate, Gjerde likes Mast Brothers Brooklyn Blend but says to use your favorite dark chocolate (about 70 percent or higher). For the cocoa powder, he prefers Valrhona.

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Deep Chocolate Pudding

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Double-Chocolate Pudding

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This recipe from the late, great cookbook author Richard Sax has everything one could ask for in a chocolate pudding--an intense flavor and a silky texture that's still firm enough to stand a spoon in. For the best possible pudding, use top-quality cocoa powder and chocolate.

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