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The name seems simple enough. Making it is as simple too and believe you me, it’s a real crowd pleaser.

 

This recipe has been a favourite of my children for ever and ever. It has its beginnings about 25 years ago, when I wanted to make a simple dessert for them. I had been groomed into making a Trifle Pudding while entertaining at my parents before, so I knew we could layer things with custard to get a pudding.

 

I tried to simplify the recipe, without having to bake a cake first and thought of substituting biscuits for the cake. Don’t know where I got the genius idea of adding cocoa to my custard powder, but I’m letting you in on my secret on how to make a chocolate custard from plain vanilla custard.

 

This recipe has been put on the back benches, with newer tastes and desserts being tried out, but gets revived whenever the children visit home. Have carried good old Brown & Polson Custard Powder, Cocoa and Marie biscuits to faraway lands to make it for them there too.

Chocolate Custard Biscuit Pudding

 

Ingredients ~

 1 lt milk

4 tbsp heaped, vanilla custard powder

2 tbsp heaped, cocoa powder

4 tbsp level, sugar

1 large pkt regular Marie biscuits

 

 Method ~

Pour ¾ of the milk in a heavy bottom pan. Keep 1 cup of milk aside.

Add the sugar to the milk in the pan and bring the milk to boil, stirring to melt the sugar.

In the milk in the cup, add the custard powder and cocoa and stir to mix well.

Just before the milk begins to boil, add the custard milk and keep stirring so that it does not stick to the bottom. The custard will begin to thicken immediately.

Stir till the custard begins to bubble up and boil.

Remove from the stove and keep stirring to get a silky texture.

Take a serving dish that has a flat bottom. Add a layer of the chocolate custard to it.

Keep a small bowl of cold milk besides the dish. Dip 3-4 Marie biscuits in it and place on the custard in the serving dish.

Pour some custard to cover the biscuits.

Layer with more biscuits, custard and end with a custard layer.

Top with some grated chocolate.

Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours.

Serve chilled.

 

This article is by Shivani Khanna

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