Easy Chocolate Pudding Delight

My father stopped by the other day
with chocolate yogurt pudding cups.

The kids were in bliss,

until the next afternoon.

There were four of the cups in the pack.

There are three children in my house.

My oldest,

being big on life's math situations,

had already figured out there was only one cup left,

and had sweetly shared it with her little sister.

(Little sister is also surprisingly keen.

She is the

"I see someone is eating something at the table" child.

Nobody can deny her when it comes to sharing.)

My middle child is my son, Levi.

 

  (I found him here with the vacuum cleaner that I momentarily left in order to tend to some other emergency-type situation going on,

like an escaped baby from her play area).

He is a bit ditsy,

very like myself,

missing the important news until it's common knowledge,

even if sitting right there while it is being announced,

because of daydreaming

or

thinking about something else that is more

 intriguing or "important".

It is common for him to start randomly laughing at strange moments

when he thinks of something funny

that he saw in a movie,

or heard someone say.

Dinner is often the usual time

for these random outbursts of unrelated laughter,

or when guests are visiting

and he finds something someone says

or does

like a facial expression

or sound effect

absolutely hilarious

and we are left at a stumbling attempt

to explain why our son is laughing uncontrollably at them.

He used to sit with us during church service

and would send my husband and I 

into a red-faced embarrassment

when he'd loudly repeat an "Amen" at the end of a prayer,

or think a sound effect that the preacher had used was funny,

yes,

so funny that he could not stop laughing

an uncontrollable,

deep-seated laughter

for

several long seconds,

which,

of course,

seems like several long minutes,

when you are sitting in a church pew,

and everybody is turning around

suppressing their own laughter.

And this would be repeated at random

throughout the rest of the sermon,

when the sound effect would return inside his head

and rouse the funny thought again.

He was not being rude, mind you,

this is just the way his brain works.

He is an expressive movie-watcher,

book-reader,

story-listener.

Back to the pudding:

Levi discovered, when lifting the lid to the trashcan to throw something away,

the empty pudding cups,

and also remembered that

>YUM<

there had been one left the day before.

Unfortunately for him, his brain's lights went on

several hours after the other two's lights had flashed, shone brightly,

and then shut off after a tummy delighted

by the last cup of pudding.

Needless to say,

bitter-for-chocolate tears commenced.

My momma heart went out to him

as well as my chocolate addicted one

and I mentioned the future of MAKING chocolate pudding.

Future to this man

does not exist.

The cooking stool immediately got dragged out,

Demands to get the mixing bowl began

and

continued in 30 second intervals

until I dug out several cookbooks

looking for the best recipe.

The pan soon became a brown goo

of

chocolatey sweet thickness.

And my steadfast supervising chef

had his cup full of happiness.

Here is my chocolate pudding recipe

(adapted from several recipes)

so you can make some happy brown goo for the unsuspecting people in your home

or

for your own satisfying delight.

(I doubled this recipe: multiple household children and a mother who crave chocolate substances will require this).

Easy Chocolate Pudding:

2 cups milk

3 Tablespoons cornstarch

1//3 cup honey or sugar (I used 1/4 cup blue agave syrup)

1/4 cup cocoa

2 beaten eggs

In medium-sized saucepan, stir together the cornstarch,

honey, cocoa powder.  Carefully pour in the milk, turn 

the stove on to medium heat, and whisk constantly 

(I'm a slothful whisker, so I just stir a few times a minute 

in the beginning until I see it's starting to get hot; 

then I whisk constantly because I don't want it to burn).   

Whisk until it comes to a boil (turn down to low heat 

once it starts to boil) and stir until it thickens.  Scoop some 

of the hot mixture into a glass measuring cup or bowl,

and slowly ad the beaten eggs, stirring so that they do not "cook"

into egg pieces..  Then ad this to the saucepan, stirring constantly

for 1 minute.  Pour into a glass bowl and cool.  

Enjoy.

Refrigerate the left-overs,

if there are any.

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