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Chocolate Budino

August 15, 2013 By Betsy Cohen

Desserts Required - Chocolate Budino

Chocolate Budino

Do you know the saying, “You say potato and I say potato?” with the sound of the ‘a’ being the variable? Well, I couldn’t help thinking about this as I made my first budino.

Bu-what-o, you wonder? Budino is the Italian word for pudding, in this case chocolate pudding. I recently went to the Taste of the Nation Palm Beach event that benefitted Share Our Strength, a fabulous organization whose goal is to end childhood hunger.

Throughout the event wonderful chefs in our area delighted everyone with samples of their cuisine. One pastry chef made a butterscotch budino that was incredible. It was that night that I learned about budinos.

I went on the Internet to do a bit of digging. I love chocolate pudding and had blogged about one in the past, so I wanted to find out if there is a difference between the two styles.

What I learned is that an Italian budino tends to be a bit less sweet than American pudding and, at least in the case of the chocolate budino I made, is also a bit thicker, a characteristic I loved.

My first inclination was to serve it as is without whipped cream but I was, quickly, overruled. It is rather hard to complain about having to make whipped cream, given that it is one of the quickest and easiest things to make in a kitchen. I served it to friends and family and loved my friend Faith’s 9-year old’s response best of all.

To quote Riley, “It is an out of this world creation, the pudding was like earth and the homemade whipped cream was the cloud on top. It is heavenly.”

From a 9 year old??? WOW, I would love my 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 year old friends to describe desserts like this!

My oldest son, Joshua, thoroughly enjoyed it (without Riley’s eloquence) but did look at me and comment that he was not so sure that this differed much in taste from my previous chocolate pudding.

Perhaps not, but there is something about the word, ‘budino’ that makes the dessert seem a bit more sophisticated. Joshua may say pudding while I say BUDINO!

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Chocolate Budino
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Recipe Type: Dessert
Author: adapted from: Nigella Lawson
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 7 mins
Total time: 27 mins
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • Chocolate budino:
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch, sifted
  • ⅔ cup cocoa powder, sifted
  • ¼ cup boiling water
  • 4 egg yolks, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips, finely chopped
  • Whipped cream topping:
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • chocolate for grating over the top
Instructions
  1. For the budino:
  2. Set aside 6 – 8 glasses or ramekins.
  3. Warm the milk and cream in a small saucepan and set aside. Do not boil.
  4. Whisk together the sugar, cornstarch and cocoa in a medium saucepan. Whisk in the boiling water to form a thick paste.
  5. Beat the egg yolks together and whisk into the medium saucepan, stirring constantly so that the yolks do not cook. Whisk in the vanilla.
  6. Gradually pour the warm milk/cream into the medium saucepan and whisk until thoroughly blended.
  7. Cook over medium heat until thickened, about 7 minutes stirring constantly, with a wooden spoon. Do not boil the budino.
  8. Remove from the heat and stir in the chopped chocolate.
  9. Immediately transfer the budino to the glasses or ramekins. Place plastic wrap directly on top of the budino to prevent skin from forming. Refrigerate until cold.
  10. For the whipped cream topping:
  11. Combine the cream, confectioners sugar and vanilla into a large mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed until soft peaks form.
  12. Dollop whipped cream over the budino.
  13. Grate chocolate either directly onto the budino or onto a piece of waxed paper and then sprinkle the grated chocolate over the whipped cream.
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Happylicious By Betsy December 2015 lo res I have loved desserts for as long as I can remember. Growing up I loved the smell of freshly baked challah in my maternal great-grandmother’s kitchen, the incredible butter cookies from my paternal grandmother and the perfect pies my mother used to bake when company came over. More about me.
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