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18 Dreamy Pudding Recipes

By Food & Wine Updated November 08, 2018
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From rice pudding with poached rhubarb to coconut pudding with pineapple and candied cashews, here are some terrific dessert recipes.
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Banana Pudding

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This best-ever Banana Pudding from Kemuri Tatsu-ya in Austin, TX gets its flavor from rich miso caramel, crunchy graham cracker topping, and perfectly smooth pastry cream. Kokuto (Japanese brown sugar) can be purchased online at chefshop.com or substituted with dark brown sugar.

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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."

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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 and Creamy Butterscotch Pudding

Rich and Creamy Butterscotch Pudding
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Butterscotch pudding is traditionally made with butter and a little Scotch (the alcohol burns off during cooking). Pastry chef Lisa Sewall makes a supercreamy version that is a bit of a cheat—she uses butterscotch chips to simplify the recipe. The result is so flavorful, even purists won’t complain.

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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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Chia-Seed Pudding

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As chia seeds soak in almond milk, they create a tapioca-like pudding.

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Goat Cheese Puddings

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Poppy, known for simple, seasonal dishes from chef Jerry Traunfeld, keeps a molecular gastronomist in the pastry station. Dana Cree uses techniques she picked up at the Fat Duck in the U.K. and New York City's WD-50. "I learned to divorce flavors from their original textures to create something new," she says.

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Rice Pudding with Poached Rhubarb

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This vanilla-flecked rice pudding is exceptionally easy and exceptionally delicious, thanks to the tangy rhubarb. Krista Desjarlais, the chef-owner of Bresca in Portland, Maine, gently poaches the stalks in red wine, sugar, lemon juice and cinnamon. Perfect on the pudding, the rhubarb would be equally good with Greek yogurt.

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Coconut Pudding with Pineapple and Candied Cashews

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This dessert is called a soufflé; at Philipkutty's Farm, but it's much more like a rich, creamy pudding with deep tropical flavors and a sweet, nutty garnish. Here it's molded in an 8-inch square pan; the pudding can also be prepared in individual custard cups or ramekins. Cooking the pineapple mixture is key because raw pineapple contains an enzyme that prevents a pudding from setting.

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Creamy Caramel Pudding

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This decadent-seeming pudding is low in fat and a good source of calcium.

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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. Food blogger Pim Techamuanvivit likes using old, mismatched jam jars.

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Vanilla Tapioca Pudding

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Chef Louis Lambert believes that the best way to finish off a spicy meal is with a cool and creamy custard. He combined his grandmother's tapioca recipe and his own recipe for crême brulée to make this super-rich pudding.

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Lime-Scented Poppy-Seed Rice Pudding with Mango

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For centuries, farmers have been growing rice in Senegal, on the western coast of Africa, where it's a staple food. Here, Marcus Samuelsson uses it to create an utterly luxurious pudding, brightening the creamy flavor with grated lime zest, vanilla and cubes of fresh mango.

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Pumpkin Pudding with Mile-High Meringue

Pumpking Pudding with Mile-High Meringue
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Dean Fearing and Jill Bates, the pastry chef at Fearing's, collaborated on this spiced pumpkin pudding covered with meringue swirls. "It's what all Southerners love about their pies, whether they're coconut, chocolate or banana—the meringue,” Fearing says.

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Indian Pudding

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With its delightful contrasts of warm spicy pudding and cold vanilla ice cream, this version of an American classic is the ultimate comfort dessert. Homey as it is, though, it looks elegant when served in stemmed bowls. While Indian pudding is frequently stodgy, our version is soft and light and altogether tempting.

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Creamy Butterscotch Pudding with Toffee

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Whipped cream and toffee crumbles make the perfect garnish for this rich dessert.

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Banana Pudding with Vanilla Wafer Crumble

Banana Pudding with Vanilla Wafer Crumble
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David Guas, a New Orleans native, remembers this comforting dessert from his childhood. It's a spectacularly creamy banana pudding topped with a crumble made from vanilla wafer cookies. (Recipe adapted from DamGoodSweet.)

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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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    6 of 18 Chia-Seed Pudding
    7 of 18 Goat Cheese Puddings
    8 of 18 Rice Pudding with Poached Rhubarb
    9 of 18 Coconut Pudding with Pineapple and Candied Cashews
    10 of 18 Creamy Caramel Pudding
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    14 of 18 Pumpkin Pudding with Mile-High Meringue
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