Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Healthy Chocolate Fix

Brace yourself. In fact, you might want to be sitting down for this....

I just made the most delicious and nutritious chocolate pudding!!! "Wait", you must be saying to yourself, "all things in moderation? What, can I have 1/4 cup of chocolate pudding??" NO way, Jose. What if I told you that you could eat 1 whole cup of rich, velvety chocolate pudding for 113 calories and about 2 grams of fat?!?! You would write down this recipe and make it right now, that's what you would do!!!

In all fairness, I did say "brace yourself" :)

Did I mention that it is dairy-free?

Here we go:
2 cups Silk Light Chocolate Soy Milk, divided
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup Truvia
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Heat 1 1/2 cups of the chocolate soy milk to a simmer. Meanwhile, whisk remaining 1/2 cup chocolate soy milk with the cornstarch until dissolved. Measure out truvia and cocoa powder and set aside. When milk is simmering, whisk in (use your muscles!) the corn starch mixture. It will thicken rather quickly. Keep whisking. Whisk in the truvia and cocoa powder. Continue to whisk for about one minute. Remove from heat and add the vanilla. Whisk one last time. It will look like this:


Next, grab your spoon, scoop out a generous bite and enjoy! (Please pardon my appearance, I am sweaty from the 100 degree weather and a workout!)