Chocolate bliss

 
photography by: Louis Hiemstra

I've found it!!!!!

The messiest, gooeyiest, stickiest and most decadent chocolate pudding ever! Well at least for now.

A self confessed chocoholic there is no chocolate pudding that has not crossed my lips, no recipe left untested. When the skies turn grey and fluffy blankets reappear in my daily life, it’s most certain that my ill-disciplined craving for chocolate pudding will resurface. My journey to discover this perfect chocolate ecstasy starts every year around winter time and includes recollections of dried out wanabe’s landing in the bin, ending its short life on the floor or thrown against the wall. Every winter I see these heavenly chocolate treasures strutting their stuff in glossies, newsletters or online food publications promising to take over your taste buds and leaving you hooked on its gooey sauce.

But the truth is finding a chocolate pudding that tastes as irresistible as it sounds or looks is a demanding quest.  So many times recipes gloat that their chocolate bliss can be whipped together in less than 20 minutes and include only store cupboard essentials. To my disappointment I often notice chocolate chunks and cream listed in the ingredients. Chocolate never has or ever will be a  store cupboard ingredient in my household. It does not even last a day, how is it going to survive in my pantry, only to bediscovered at 22:00 on a cold rainy, stormy winter’s evening? As far as the cream goes, no comment.

No one knows better than me, that when it comes to good quality chocolate there is no substitute.  So for nights when the craving of chocolate sneaks up on you like a thief in the night and your partner is not offering to be the night in shining armour and go buy your favourite kind there is still hope i.e. my Chocolate pudding recipe. I am thrilled to say that this heavenly treasure truly lives up to its definition of sticky, chewy, messy and self-indulgent. I am positive that like me you will be able to stock cocoa and sugar for at least throughout the months of winter.

Enjoy and keep cosy.