Blogging Marathon# 30: Week 3/ Day 2
Theme: Kid’s Delight – Summer Special
Dish: Chocolate Custard with Custard Powder
Day 2 of BM# 30 and my theme for this week is “Summer Specials“. This month’s Kid’s Delight event is being hosted by the talented Chef Mireille @ Global Gourmet. I love her theme because it is crazy hot here and my 5 year old is driving me crazy with his little demands. So I’ve been looking for some kid friendly recipes to please my picky eater.
Today I made something sweet with one of his favorite ingredients, chocolate. He doesn’t eat vanilla in any form and he wouldn’t even touch the regular custard. So I added some cocoa to custard and made a chocolate version of it and he loved it. I wish I had thought of it earlier!!
This makes for a great dessert for kids party. Toppings can be served in individual bowls, so the kids can choose whatever they want. Of course, my son ate his topped with crushed oreos, but berries, bananas etc are great too.
| Prep Time | 20 minutes |
| Cook Time | 20 minutes |
| Passive Time | 4 hours |
| Servings |
serving
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- 2 cups+3tbsps milk (I used 2% milk and added about 1/2 cup of cream since I had to use it)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp custard powder
- 1 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- As needed Toppings of choice - Oreo cookies, Banana, berries, apple and so on
Ingredients
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- Combine 2 cups milk and sugar in a heavy bottomed sauce pan and bring to a boil.
- In the meantime, whisk custard powder and cocoa in the remaining 3tbsp milk, making sure that there are no lumps.
- Once the milk comes to a boil, remove from heat and slowly add the custard powder mixture whisking continuously.
- Bring the mixture to a simmer whisking continuously until the mixture thickens, about 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and mix vanilla extract. Let the mixture cool completely and chill it before serving.
Lets check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM# 30.
Sending this over to Valli's Summer Special Mela @ Cooking4allSeasons.
Oh gosh those pictures are driving me crazy Pavani..those are looking so good..and know what, for a change it’s raining in Madras..and I still won’t mind getting this to eat though..:)..your son’s pic tops the list ok..he should pose more
Wow ! Who can resist that and with all those chocolate even adults are in the queue.
Custurd is such a versatile dessert..one can do wonders with it..I am drooling over those pics and would love to indulge in grabbing some of those bowls.
I’ll go for that oreo topped custard, lovely topping and my kind of dessert,loving it.
Such a delicious one! The one with crushed oreos tops my list 🙂
Lovely idea for choco lovers!
My daughter would go crazy for the Oreo topped custard. It looks divine..
Mouthwatering and bookmarked :0
silky smooth and mouth watering… very well explained!!Sowmya
What does 2+3 cups tbsps Milk mean? How many cups go in the saucepan and how many tbsps to mix the custard and cocoa?
Hi Denise, I updated the recipe with the correct milk amounts. Hope this helps. Thank you.