I’m happy to have developed today’s recipe for Old Fashioned Double Chocolate Mocha Pudding as part of my partnership with Horizon Organic. I love cooking with their naturally good products and I feel great about feeding them to my active kids. And my kids love the creamy richness of Old Fashioned Double Chocolate Mocha Pudding that has simple goodness in it you just can’t get from a box.

When it comes to comfort food, absolutely nothing in the world can possibly compare to the pure comfort food power of homemade, still warm from the pan Old Fashioned Double Chocolate Mocha Pudding. My Grandma was a preacher’s wife who managed to feed anyone my Grandpa thought looked like they were hungry or might some day be hungry and brought home to be fed. God love ’em both, they fed more people over the years than they ever had the funds to do. Lack of funds, though, didn’t mean lack of means; Grandma was incredibly resourceful. She managed to “loaves and fishes” her way into feeding multitude after multitude.

It wasn’t just that she gave them food. She gave them great food and always shared her best. Her best was exceptional, too, because she was a trailblazer in the kitchen. She made hearty food that somehow managed to be elevated and a little more fabulous than anyone else’s version, and what’s more, she always shared her secrets. Of all of Grandma’s amazing desserts, somehow her puddings always pulled me in the most. When I was at her house, and she pulled the little banged up saucepan out and whisked cornstarch with cocoa powder, sugar, a pinch of salt (“because you always need a little salty with the sweet like life”), and poured in milk, I was at her elbow with a spoon ready to do my part and scrape the pan clean after she poured the hot pudding into bowls. When I was done, that pan was almost as clean as it had been when Grandma started.

Once, I saw Grandma stir a little leftover strong coffee into the milk before adding it to the chocolate pudding she was making. She told me coffee and chocolate were a natural match. Grandma didn’t like to waste a thing, but she also knew her stuff. What may have been an effort to avoid waste became one of my all-time best loved desserts: Old Fashioned Double Chocolate Mocha Pudding.

Cook’s Notes

This is a simple recipe with just a few ingredients, so getting the ingredients right is the key to a good end product. I prefer to use Dutch Process Cocoa Powder and that is what this recipe is designed around using. I cannot promise that substituting standard cocoa powder will yield as delicious a result.
If you cannot find bittersweet chocolate chunks, just take bar chocolate and chop it up coarsely with a chef’s knife.
The key to a smooth pudding is to be sure to whisk the dry ingredients together thoroughly -until the colour is even- before getting anywhere near them with the milk.
It’s best to use a saucepan with a heavy bottom to help distribute the heat most evenly. If you don’t have a heavy one, you can still make pudding, you’ll just want to stir a little more often and a little more carefully.
Don’t be tempted to raise the heat above medium under this pudding. It’ll scorch. That will make you sad. Scorched pudding equals sad pudding.

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