I’ve been cooking a lot myself, but mainly stuff I’ve always cooked. Though I did try making pudding from scratch, and it is insanely easy and ridiculously delicious. I used this recipe I found online as a base (I replaced the milk with half and half, cuz it was for the holidays and I wanted it to taste really good lol).
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1 cup sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cornstarch
2 cups whole milk
4 egg yolks
1 cup chopped dark chocolate or chocolate chips (usually half a bag)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons unsalted butter (broken up into cubes)
Combine in a medium saucepan the sugar, salt and cornstarch. Whisk everything together to combine. Add the yolks and slowly add the milk.
On a medium flame heat up the milk mixture. Slowly add the chopped chocolate. Continue whisking, making sure to hit the sides of the pan. Do not leave your post! If you do, take the pan off the flame.
If you like, switch to a rubber spatula or wooden spoon at this point. Continue mixing until the pudding thickens, or coats the back of the spoon (or reach 172-180 degrees).
Remove from flame and toss in the butter, mix it in slowly 1 cube at a time until it is fully incorporated. Then add the vanilla extract and stir it in fully. Transfer the pudding to a clean bowl. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of the pudding to prevent pudding skin from forming.
Cool in the fridge
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In the end I also added 1 tbsp of Kahlua. The taste was amazing, but it was a little grainy so I will try using less sugar next time.
I also wanted to make a banana cream pie, so I used Alton Brown’s version of Vanilla pudding (note I just used the vanilla pudding part, I didn’t use the whole recipe). Then I added a mixture of banana, brown sugar, and honey that I cooked and mashed together, to make it taste like bananas (I hate artificial banana flavor). It was pretty simple from there just made a vanilla wafer crust, and made whip cream and layered it all together.
