This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Lick-the-Pot Chocolate Pudding Pie from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie.
This was SO good I made it twice in the space of a week! I cheated a little and JUST made the chocolate pudding which is meant to be the filling for a pie crust, then topped with a whipped cream/ mascarpone mixture. I was making this for a “light supper” the first time around so figured the pudding would be enough. For the second round, I was serving this to a gluten-free friend and didn’t have GF cookies or crumbs to use so figured we’d just get directly to the good stuff! This is the stuff of your childhood dreams – nursery food done right (especially if you splurge on the good chocolate!). Soft and velvety, not gelatinous – this is a perfect chocolate pastry cream, cooked just enough that it is “spoonable” but not too soft.
Named because Dorie’s husband Michael can’t resist cleaning the pot this is made in (I guess by scraping it clean with a rubber spatula!) and I can tell you, there was a bit of pot licking clean over here too. This is SOOOOO good. I stopped short of cleaning the ramekins with my finger both times 😉 A tiny rubber spatula (like these) sure would come in handy here 😉
Hence, no pretty picture of the finished ramekins, adorned in whipped cream (round 1) or just plain (round 2).
So you’ll have to take my word for it – these are worth making (even as just puddings, not necessarily the whole pie thing).
Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Lick-the-Pot Chocolate Pudding (Pie) on p 276 of Baking with Dorie.
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I couldn’t agree with you more, loved it.
This is high praise of a pudding…I am looking forward to making it again and trying it myself!! 🙂
I like the “scrape-the-ramekin” version, too!