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But can you eat chocolate?
Life as a busy working mum can be very hectic and ‘Me time’ becomes extremely precious. But a couple of days ago, with both the boys at school, I treated myself to the most indulgent and wonderfully relaxing massage.
Whilst chatting away to Charlotte (who has the most gifted hands!) our conversation drifted towards my work and this exciting new blog adventure I had just embarked on. 😉 We got talking about the vegan diet which lead to the inevitable question…. so what do vegans eat?
As you can imagine I was enthusiastically telling her all about autumnal Moroccan tagines, Blueberry and Lemon Cheesecakes, dairy-free ice cream sundaes and the Creamy Leek, Mushroom and Chickpea Pie I was planning for dinner. And then Charlotte dropped the big question: “But you can’t eat chocolate, can you?”
“Do you honestly believe I could be vegan if I couldn’t have chocolate?”, I joked and it got me all fired up to make one of my favourite chocolate dessert recipes to share with you.
It’s an adaptation from my mum’s wonderful Schokopudding and probably the simplest and most comforting chocolate dessert I know. Amazingly, this recipe requires only five ingredients which are all stock-cupboard staples – so it’s perfect for sudden chocolate craving attacks!
I have served this chilled with fresh blueberries or sliced strawberries. I have also scooped it, still warm, straight from the saucepan for Sunday breakfast – I think that was probably before I had kids though!
Schokopudding
Serves 4-6
500ml dairy-free milk
3 rounded tbsp cocoa
4 tbsp unrefined sugar
4 rounded tbsp cornflour
a generous pinch of cinnamon
Combine the cornflour and some of the milk until smooth – you don’t want any lumps in this. In a separate bowl mix the cocoa and sugar with enough soya milk to form a paste.
Heat the remaining milk together with the cocoa paste over a medium flame. Keep stirring to make sure the chocolate milk doesn’t catch on the bottom of your saucepan. When the milk is hot add the cornflour mix whilst stirring continuously. This is really important, don’t stop stirring until the pudding thickens. (I like using a silicone spatula for this.) If you prefer your dessert a bit sweeter you can add some more sugar at this point and stir until it dissolves. Pour into four ramekins or six mini cups and chill. Couldn’t be easier!
Do you think this could make it into your Chocolate Top 5? I’d love to hear all about your favourites!
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aw this chocolate desert sounds so good! next time I get a craving (probably in about ooh say 10mins?!) I’ll be trying this 🙂
That made me laugh! I don’t know what it is about chocolate cravings but they do seem to come on very suddenly, don’t you think?
I would love to try this – looks great! What is conflour?
Oh my goodness, so glad you spotted this. It’s not some trick or fraudulent flour – I’ve corrected it to cornflour.
It’s also known as corn starch – the white, powdered starch of the maize grain. You certainly read the recipe and not just looked at the pretty picture 😉
OH! I thought it was a special flour I would find at a vegetarian market or co-op! Hehe. Here, we have corn flour – which is polenta-like – and also corn starch. Good to know to use the corn starch. I AM SO excited to try this soon. Thanks for sharing! I adore chocolate and can’t digest cow’s milk – so it’s perfect.
Let me know how you get on. It’s lovely with some vanilla ice cream but I’ve also added some espresso coffee in the past to make it into Mocha cups.
I love add coffee flavor to chocolate dishes – it highlights the wonderful cocoa notes. That sounds delicious! I might just put some melted chocolate on top – just go coo-coo for cocoa. 😉
Okay, now we have coffee and chocolate and melted chocolate on top… yes please! Will have to remember something super healthy for starters.
This looks soooo good! Definitely have to try this! I love dried cherries with chocolate… I will let you know if it tasted as good as I think it will. 🙂
I love dried cherries and choc too! I’ve just come back from a trip to Germany last night and brought back some fabulous chocolates with dried cherries and dried cranberries. They are not going to last, I can tell 😉
Wow! Wow! Wow! This is making me feel all Christmassy. Definitely going to try this. 🙂 x
I hope you’ll enjoy this. It’s a really quick recipe, brimming with wonderful flavours. It’s a bit early for ‘festive’ really, but I couldn’t quite resist 😉
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