Mmm, looks good! I'm sitting here at work, on a public holiday (it's anzac day here in aus), I skipped lunch, that choccy pud has me almost drooling! I know what I'm having for dessert tonight :)

Elise, your blogs were the inspiration for me to start blogging a year and a half ago. And I've just come across them again under Blogher. Fantastic stuff - well done.

As for Aldie: she looks like an amazing assistant. Let her know she's free to come over to Sydney, Australia, to make me chocolate pudding any time!

To Alden & your 2 companions. All of you look so adorable eating yummy chocolate! I wish I was your age again. Enjoy your childhood!

Hi Aldie & Elise

What great photos of your fun time in the kitchen! Those big smiles tell me that it was worth waiting at least 2 hours while the pudding cooled - did it feel like ages? You didn't cheat and eat them earlier did you? I think I would have!

Cheers, Robyn

Good job, Alden! Thanks very much for showing me how to make such tasty-looking pudding. :D

Hi Aldie! That pudding looks great! And guess what! Last week I made chocolate pudding with a girl who's nine -- poor girl, her mother doesn't like chocolate so we figure she can't grow up to be a proper woman without a regular Chocolate Mentor, that's me! So we get together every once in awhile to make chocolate things, just like you and Elise!

Thank you Adroit Alden & lovely sisters !!! That is my favorite recipe....Chocolate Pudding.....yummy.I am waiting for Jonathan to come and we shall prepare it for supper.

Yum!...and so much better than the junk from a box!

I love to see these kids having so much fun and especially like hearing that they enjoy helping with the cleanup. I regularly cook with a family of three kids (all older than this bunch) and it is almost impossible to get them to clean up! In fact, any of my items that are used are taken home and re-washed because they do such a horrid job.

HI Alden and Reilly,

We make the vey same pudding at our house and my sone helps. It is great isn't it?

I do have a question about this pudding for you Elise. I have made this dozens of times and sometimes it comes out quite lumpy and I've never been able to figure out why. I'm sure it has something to do with the cornstarch, but I've never been able to determine exactly what I'm doing that makes the difference between smooth and lunpy pudding. Any suggestions?

How is it that none of those cute faces are covered in chocolate? I don't have kids of my own, but I'm always amazed at our friends' children -- if ice cream, pudding, or icing are close by, their faces will soon be covered!

PS -- just tried the recipe, and am anxiously awaiting for it to cool. However, the spoon tasted great!

I'm a little concerned that you don't further cook the pudding after you've adding it to a RAW egg. Does the heat from the boiled pudding mixture provide enough warmth to cook the egg proteins?

I'm sure the danger of undercooked eggs isn't much of a concern for adults but what about small children? This recipe sounds delicious but dangerous at the same time.

Hello Ladies,
Love the last pic of you girls enjoying your pudding - Your pudding looks YUMMY - Lucky you!!!

That Chocolate pudding really does look Delicious!!! Great job everybody!

Hello Alden and Reilly and Elise;
When my children were little they used to like making a pudding like this, and put "snakes" it it and then calling the pudding "snake swamp pudding". The snakes weren't real of course! Here in Australia we can buy candy snakes (we call candies "lollies" here). Can you buy them in America?

We make this at home and eat it hot!!
Yummy! My mom from Texas learned to eat it with biscuits!! Texans call it chocolate gravy!!

Hello Aldie and Reilly -
My daughter, Mia, is going to try your recipe for chocolate pudding this weekend. Even though she is much older than you (23!) she has almost no cooking experience, so she's quite grateful you've included photos demonstrating your technique. So am I, because I'm going to be eating the results (lucky mommy.)
Keep on cooking, ladies - Claire

We made it just like yours only we used 2% milk. It was yummy.

Oh Yum!!! I absolutely love chocolate pudding, and so does my 4 year old son!
We also love to make it together, and even more eat afterwards. It is so conforting and yummy!
You all did a great job, the pudding looks delicious creamy and chocolatey, just as it should be!
Ana

Thank you! All the recipes I have found online call for packets of pudding mix. Finally I can make pudding with lactaid milk. :)

re: raw eggs, I believe that something like 1 in 30,000 eggs is contaminated with salmonella. I have eaten raw egg-containing food (or undercooked eggs) many times, and I have never been sick. I have, however, become 'sick' so many times after eating in restaurants that I can't count.

I lived in a student co-op and a significant number of the people didn't even refrigerate their eggs, suffering no ill effects.

Plus, pouring very hot chocolate into eggs will indeed cook them to some degree. Hence, you must add the chocolate to the egg slowly or else it will seize up and become this bizzare, clumpy oily mess. :)

Oh my goodness, this brings back yummy childhood memories of what I call Real Pudding, as opposed to the Jello Instant variety. What a huge difference in taste. I haven't had the real stuff since I was a kid. Aldie, you've inspired me to invite my niece over for a Real Pudding fest!

Btw, my favorite way to eat real pudding was to carefully take a spoonful from the edge near me, and watch the other side slide cleanly down the bowl with each bite. If I was very careful, I could eat the whole thing without leaving more than a couple of specks of pudding in the bowl. Can't do that with yucky instant pudding. :o]

Well today I tried making it with Organic soymilk (lactose intolerant) so we'll see how it turns out! It thickened up nicely in the pot, hopefully it will firm up more in the fridge. It's a great simple recipe. I love pudding but I haven't eaten it since I came up as a lacty. Can't wait! Thanks for the opportunity.

Aldie and Reilly :
You may be to young to know that the heart of a home is the kitchen and that when you grow up, those memories will be a beautiful treasure, I can see that you are great help in making delicious recepies, congratulations.

As for the mom, well I have lived in Mexico for the past 25 years but was born 35 years ago in Chicago, yes a big city, but had a wonderful warm home with cooking memories that even t'll this day are the best days of my life. Thanks for sharing.
Gabriella.

Ps. Excuse my misspelling (if so).

I just made this pudding to use as a pie filling, but I used coconut milk in place of the whole milk since I am allergic to dairy. It turned out so yummy! My 5 yr old daughter and I had fun making it and we really like licking the bowl...mmmmmmmm- she is totally wearing the chocolate on her face & mini chef's jacket! Thanks Aldie, Reilly & Elise. Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi you guys,

Thanks for the great recipe. I whipped heavy cream with some sugar and folded in the pudding. That was a good variation. Hope Alden and Reilly have more yummy recipes to share with everyone:)

I made this the other day and it was very tasty indeed! However, it stayed quite soft and "runny," even after it was fully set up. I prefer a chocolate pudding that has a little more of a "jelled" quality, a little stiffer. Is there something I did wrong, or is there something I can to do make it a bit more "set up"? Maybe more corn starch?

I have made the Martha Stewart recipe a few times, and that one has more of the texture I'm talking about, although I like the flavor of your recipe much better. Her's is way too intense in chocolate-y-ness (am I really saying something is too chocolate-y?!), though it is also a very good recipe.

Thanks.

To the writer who said the pudding was runny .. there is an enzyme in saliva that breaks down starch, in this case it's corn starch. The problem occurs when you taste the pudding, and put the spoon back in the pan or bowl. Use a separate teaspoon for tasting, and don't place it back into the pudding. You'll find the results will be perfect.

Hi there!

That pudding looks too yummy for words! Hope to make it sometime this week; thanks for sharing it.
Alden - you and your friends had me wishing I was a child again! Happy cooking!!

I have tried this recipe twice and both times it has come out very runny. There is not any saliva in my recipe, so to speak.

The flavor was so excellent, despite the soupy consistency, that I gave it a second try in which I tried whisking while boiling well for 8 minutes in step one, in the hope of improving the thickening. The result from the second try was somewhat thicker but still very runny.

It seems as though the incorporation into the egg in step two is when the pudding loses its thickness.

How am I messing this up?

Note from Elise: How fresh are your eggs? That might make a difference.

I was looking for a good pudding recipe, because I have milk goats and we had 4 gallons that needed to be used. My kids are in High school and college so they had no interest in helping me make it, but they sure ate it up fast enough. It was very good. In fact I am on my way into the kitchen right now to make more....