Layered Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate Puddings

By Stef -

I have a strange love affair with chocolate and peanut butter, so I thought these were about the best thing ever. They were easy to make and tasted damn good. I gave them an 8.5, and the recipe came from melskitchencafe.com.

PEANUT BUTTER PUDDING:

  •  1/2 cup granulated sugar I used 1/4 C.
  •  5 teaspoons cornstarch 
  •  1/8 teaspoon salt 
  •  1 3/4 cups 1%, 2% or whole milk 
  •  1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 
  •  1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 
  •  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

MILK CHOCOLATE PUDDING:

  •  6 tablespoons granulated sugar 
  •  2 tablespoons cornstarch 
  •  2 tablespoons natural unsweetened cocoa powder 
  •  Pinch of salt 
  •  1 1/2 cups 1%, 2% or whole milk 
  •  1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 
  •  4 ounces milk chocolate, chopped 
  •  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

TOPPING:
  •  1 cup chilled heavy whipping cream 
  •  1 tablespoon powdered sugar 
  •  dusting of cocoa powder, if desired

Comments

  1. thejohnmfamilyJanuary 21, 2019 at 10:13 AM

    So, these really are great. I cut the sugar down to 1/4 cup in the peanut butter pudding and to 4 Tbs. in the chocolate puddings. They were PLENTY sweet. I would take it down by another Tbs. in each kind. I was generous with my peanut butter measurement, and I doubled this without any drama. For the chocolate, I did 2/3 milk chocolate and 1/3 dark chocolate. I did 1/8 tsp. of salt in the chocolate pudding. When you layer these, try to put it in the middle of the container and not get it on the sides, and don't stir it to try and get the skin off. We put dark chocolate peanut butter cups from trader joe's on top of ours, as well as the cocoa, and they were awesome.

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  2. thejohnmfamilyAugust 12, 2019 at 9:03 PM

    3 Tbs of sugar is fine in each batch. I did 75% milk, 25% dark. The chocolate pudding did not thicken as well as the peanut butter. Next time, I would bring it to a boil, boil for about 1 minute, then add the chocolate and take it off the heat. It thickened a lot more than I thought it would as soon as it started to cool, but it initially looked really runny.

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  3. Diana G.March 22, 2021 at 2:48 PM

    This has become my favorite pudding! And Melissa's right--you can cut the sugar down a bit and it's still plenty sweet. I also like that I can control the degree of chocolate flavoring by using either milk, dark, or a combination of the two. Wonderful dessert.

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