Easy Microwave Chocolate Pudding

Easy Microwave Chocolate Pudding is a rich and silky dairy free dark chocolate dessert made in less than 5 minutes in the microwave with only five ingredients.  (Vegan and Gluten-free)

We're on a roll with easy microwaved desserts. Whether you are are on the mood for cool creamy chocolate or our warming spiced steamed gingerbread - both can be made in 5 minutes in the microwave.

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• Homemade
• Say Goodbye to Store Bought!
• What's to Love
• Ingredients
• Dietary Substitutions
• How to Sweeten your Pudding?
• Prevent Pudding Skin
• How to Cool
• Pro tips
• Favorite Toppings
• Storage
• Frequent Asked Questions (FAQ's)
• More No Bake Desserts
• Desserts Served in a Cup
• Easy Microwave Chocolate pudding

Homemade

By the way, the fake stuff in the box does not count. We are talking real homemade chocolate pudding - no weird ingredients. This easy gluten free dessert can be made is a flash and is so thick and rich you can stand a spoon up in it.

Easy Microwave Chocolate Pudding is a deep dark chocolate decadent pudding that satisfies your appetite for a sweet creamy indulgence. Shut the front door as you are going to need a personal moment with your personal pudding cup.

Say Goodbye to Store Bought!

It has been awhile since you made pudding from scratch, right? We totally get it. You don’t make homemade pudding because it’s a hassle.

So, you end up grabbing a box of that instant pudding on the shelf, not even the cooked kind because we cannot be bothered. Are we right? Hey, we totally understand but this recipe is going to change all that forever. Try our homemade pudding or berry and peach pudding tart and say goodbye to the boxed pudding version forever.

What's to Love

Rich

Creamy

Decadent

Deep dark chocolate

Sweet indulgence

Only 3 minutes in the microwave

Only 5 ingredients

Dairy-free

Gluten-free

Egg-free

Vegan

Ingredients

You probably have everything in your pantry to make this right now…Go and check we will wait..

Unsweetened Cocoa powder

Cornstarch

Sugar

Almond milk or dairy free milk or dairy of choice

Vanilla

Dietary Substitutions

How about that? You can pronounce everything on the ingredient list. There are no weird dyes, artificial ingredients or things that you can’t pronounce.

• We used almond milk as we have dairy sensitives here.  However, you can use any kind of dairy you desire or even coconut milk or oat milk.
• If you need to keep it gluten-free, there are many organic gluten-free cocoa powders at the market. Otherwise, a good old fashion Hershey’s unsweetened cocoa powder works just fine. If you like chocolate and want a healthy and quick recipe be sure to try out Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie. 

How to Sweeten your Pudding?

Feel free to use regular granulated sugar, coconut sugar (like we did) or sweeteners of choice to sweeten your microwave dessert for one. We did not use a sweetener alternative as for us all sweetener alternatives have that odd metallic taste.

Prevent Pudding Skin

Once you are done mixing your pudding, be sure to place a plastic wrap over and in contact with the pudding so that it does not for a skin. This skin forming starts almost immediately. There is nothing wrong with pudding skin. It can be eaten- it just looks nicer without it.

How to Cool

Waiting for your healthy microwave pudding to be cool enough to eat it can seem like decades. First, you are welcome to eat it hot if you like. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

As a matter of fact, your body prefers room temperature or warmed foods as it has to work less to extract the nutrients. If you like hot puddings, be sure to try our hot black sesame cereal.  If you are impatient like us, we placed our bowl in the freezer for about 10 to 15 minutes to get it cooled off quicker.

Pro tips

• Make sure you either sift or breakup any lumps in your dry ingredients. Dry ingredients like unsweetened cocoa powder, can get little clumps in it as it sits on the shelf. That is bad news for your pudding. The goal is to a smooth and creamy chocolate pudding. Don’t skip this step.
• Add the non- dairy or dairy of choice in very slowly while whisking. This helps prevent the clumping that might occur.
• Every microwave is different. However, on high power for 1 minute each time with a stir in between took us only 4 minutes in the microwave.
• When you put it in the microwave for the first minute, your pudding will form these thick larger lumps. That is to be expected just stir and whisk to incorporate before microwaving your pudding for the second minute. Then, repeat the process.
• Your goal is for the pudding to just pull together into a slightly thickened pudding. Just like our coconut rice pudding with condensed milk, the pudding will thicken as it sits. Now as you stir it, it will start to get thicker and thicker after you pull it out of the microwave.
• Actually, you could eat your pudding hot out of the microwave. However, it is just as delicious chilled, if you can wait for a little while before eating.
• To prevent a skin from forming on the top of your pudding, you must put a piece of plastic wrap directly over your pudding, so it is not exposed to air.
• We have put the vanilla in before the microwave process and after the microwaving and there was no change in taste if you use “real vanilla extract”. However, if using imitation vanilla extract, then we would add it after the microwaving process so that it does not change its flavor.

Favorite Toppings

We chose to keep it simple with a little homemade whipped coconut cream, However, you may want to try it with a few berries, pomegranate seeds on top or even some chopped nuts.

You can also make a parfait just like our eggless tiramisu individual cups with this easy chocolate pudding.

• First put a layer of ground gingersnap cookies or graham cracker in a cup.
• Then, place a little dollop of chocolate pudding and then a little dollop of coconut whipping cream.
• Add a little more crushed gingersnap cookies and another dollop of chocolate pudding.
• Finally end with a little sprinkle of the ground gingerbread cookies on top.

Topping with sugared cranberries is also a nice touch around the holidays. Now this is our kind of microwave Christmas pudding but really it can eaten all year around. Check out our Velvety Vegan Chocolate Mousse ,if you would like to try a mousse rather than a pudding. Both are decadent.

Storage

These little chocolate pudding cups will last approximately 5 days in the refrigerator covered. Please make sure to put a piece of cling wrap directly on top of the pudding so it does not form a skin.

You can also freeze chocolate pudding. Our favorite way to freeze pudding is to pour them into popsicle molds and freeze overnight or add it to our chocolate cheesecake bites for a creamy cold treat.

Frequent Asked Questions (FAQ's)

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