Dark Chocolate Halloween Pudding with meringue ghosts and fondant pumpkins on cookie dirt. It’s our favourite pudding in yet another avatar. What’s not to love about pudding that comes together with pantry essentials in next to no time! What if I told you the pudding is eggless and gluten free too? All that and more. No refined sugar, and addictive good, it’s a pudding that’s been made often at home.This oat pudding turned out to be very popular and was made several times over when I shared it on Instagram stories. Folk found it addictive, easy to make and comparatively guilt free. Then again, anything chocolate is always popular. The Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Oat Pudding from my previous post was just another version of my original recipe.The pudding was inspired by these beautiful Daniel Wellington watches I was gifted recently. The classic good looks, vintage tans and smooth finish inspired how my puddings looked. I had such a great time bringing these together! It was published in The Hindu a few days ago.The original pudding had walnuts, but this Dark Chocolate Halloween Pudding went fall flavoured with cinnamon to stay in season. I wasn’t too sure cinnamon and chocolate would pair well. Of course I was proved quite wrong. They paired beautifully. The rest of the assembling is quite simple. You can make the meringue ghosts in advance. If you’d like to go completely egg free, skip the meringue ghosts. Maybe use marshmallows, or pipe ghosts out of stiff whipping cream, using chocolate chips as eyes.
And yet another special dessert. This time it's Dark Chocolate Halloween Pudding {Eggless| Refined Sugarfree | Glutenfree}
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 3 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Servings 6people
Ingredients
Dark Chocolate Oat Pudding
400gmilk
200mllow fat cream
30gcocoa powder
1tspcinnamon powder
35gquick cooking oats
150gdark couverture chocolatechopped
75gbrown sugar
30ghoney
Chocolate dirt
1packet chocolate Oreo cookies
Meringue ghosts {makes 6-8 meringue ghosts}
1egg white
pinchcream of tartar
1/4cupicing sugar
Few drops orange extract
Mini chocolate chips
Instructions
Dark Chocolate Oat Pudding
Place all ingredients in a heavy bottom pan and simmer over low heat, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken.
Once it becomes as thick as a custard, take off heat, allow to cool, then puree with an immersion blender or blend in a food processor until smooth.
Pour into serving bowls / glasses.
Cool and then chill for 4-6 hours, preferably overnight.
Then top with chocolate dirt, meringue ghosts, fondant pumpkins etc
Chocolate dirt
Place cookies in jar of the blender. Process until fine crumbs form.
Alternatively, place in Ziploc and crush with rolling pin until it makes a fine crumb mix.
Meringue ghosts
Preheat the oven to 100°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Place egg white with cream of tartar in a medium bowl. Beat until the white is mousse like.
Add the sugar 1 tbsp at a time, and beat on high speed until fir, smooth and glossy. The meringue should hold stiff peaks.
Spoon it into a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle {or cut a ¼” bit off to give you a ½” hole}
Pipe out little ghosts onto the parchment paper.
Place 2 mini chocolate chips on each for eyes.
Bake for about 1 ½ to 2 hours until firm and crisp.
Cool completely on cookie tray. Use a required.
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About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
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5 thoughts on “Dark Chocolate Halloween Pudding … with meringue ghosts and fondant pumpkins on cookie dirt”
OMG, they are so pretty. I loved this idea and these look a perfect dish to be served this season. I am sure to try this soon with a little extra sweet punch in this. Thanks for sharing. Tweeting this right away.
I love the idea of the Oreo dirt !
OMG, they are so pretty. I loved this idea and these look a perfect dish to be served this season. I am sure to try this soon with a little extra sweet punch in this. Thanks for sharing. Tweeting this right away.
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The most delicious pudding I ever had. I made it myself . The recipe was awesome.