Our Favorite Pudding Recipes (2024)

We love creamy dreamy pudding, from a rich and silky chocolate pudding to a spiced and textured saffron rice pudding. Explore more satisfying desserts, including classics like Rich and Creamy Butterscotch Pudding and inventive twists like this sweet and tangy Goat Cheese Pudding. These pudding recipes are spoon-licking good.

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Dark Chocolate Pudding with Candied Ginger

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"For me, ginger should be everywhere," says chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. "It's as good in marinades and vinaigrettes as it is in dessert."

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Rich and Creamy Butterscotch Pudding

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Butterscotch pudding is traditionally made with butter and a little Scotch (the alcohol burns off during cooking). Pastry chef Lisa Sewall makes a supercreamy version that is a bit of a cheat — she uses butterscotch chips to simplify the recipe. The result is so flavorful, even purists won't complain.

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Double-Chocolate Pudding

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This recipe from the late, great cookbook author Richard Sax has everything one could ask for in a chocolate pudding — an intense flavor and a silky texture that's still firm enough to stand a spoon in. For the best possible pudding, use top-quality cocoa powder and chocolate.

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Chia-Seed Pudding

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As chia seeds soak in almond milk, they create a tapioca-like pudding We love topping it with sliced fruit and toasted nuts.

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Goat Cheese Puddings

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For this pudding, molecular gastronomist and pastry chef Dana Cree blends tangy goat cheese and lemon juice with a rich vanilla bean base to create a dessert that's packed with complex flavors.

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Rice Pudding with Poached Rhubarb

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This vanilla-flecked rice pudding is exceptionally easy and exceptionally delicious, thanks to the tangy rhubarb. Chef Krista Desjarlais gently poaches the stalks in red wine, sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon. Perfect on the pudding, the rhubarb would be equally good with Greek yogurt.

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Creamy Caramel Pudding

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This delicious pudding gets its rich flavor from a simple homemade caramel. Top it with a crunchy nut brittle for an extra treat.

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Rich Baked Chocolate Puddings

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Baking in a water bath gives this deep, dark chocolate pudding a smooth and creamy texture. Traditional ramekins are an easy choice, but it's also fun to bake and serve in small glass jars.

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Hasty Pudding

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With its delightful contrasts of warm spicy pudding and cold vanilla ice cream, this version of an American classic is the ultimate comfort dessert. Homey as it is, though, it looks elegant when served in stemmed bowls. While Indian pudding is frequently stodgy, our version is soft and light and altogether tempting.

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Creamy Butterscotch Pudding with Toffee

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Whipped cream and toffee crumbles make the perfect garnish for this rich dessert.

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Banana Pudding with Vanilla Wafer Crumble

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David Guas, a New Orleans native, remembers this comforting dessert from his childhood. It's a spectacularly creamy banana pudding topped with a crumble made from vanilla wafer cookies.

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Chocolate Puddings with Miso Caramel

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Miso-enriched caramel intensifies the deep, chocolaty flavor of these silky puddings from pastry chef Clarice Lam. Be sure to bring the leftover caramel to the table; its savory, bitter, and sweet flavor will have guests reaching for more.

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Sholeh Zard (Saffron Rice Pudding)

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This sweet Persian rice pudding called sholeh zard is made with three distinct ingredients: saffron, cardamom, and rosewater. It's delicate in flavor but so deeply aromatic that it's hard to stop eating it.

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Almond Rice Pudding with Sweet Cherry Sauce and Caramel Cream

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This creamy and fluffy rice pudding is good enough on its own, but it's even better with two great sauces: a fruity and tangy sweet cherry sauce, as well as a creamy caramel sauce.

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Mayan Chocolate Pudding

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This simple chocolate pot de crème is spiced with cinnamon and allspice. A touch of ground habanero chiles that were dried over an open fire gives it a slightly smoky flavor.

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Popcorn Pudding

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Jonathon Sawyer and his family love chocolate-covered pretzels. That gave Sawyer the idea to create this luscious dessert that brilliantly combines the flavor of salted popcorn with a sweet, creamy pudding.

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Ravo

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This creamy semolina pudding, traditional to Parsi cuisine, gets its velvety texture from gentle, constant stirring and a careful eye on the heat; it should bubble when cooking over high heat but not come to a full boil. Sweetened condensed milk — writer Sabrina Medora's grandmother's riff — and a simple whole milk–and–egg mixture thicken the pudding and add a creamy, sweet flavor.

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Milk-Chocolate Pots de Crème

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Pot de crème ("pot of cream") is a traditional French custard typically served in a pot-shaped cup. This milk-chocolate version from pastry chef Frank Urso is supersilky and dense.

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FAQs

Why is it called better than Robert Redford cake? ›

It had been a very long time since I had an icebox cake. In the book, Dylan calls it the Robert Redford Cake and it comes from the chapter that features recipes from the 1970s. Apparently the cake is named after Redford because its as tasty as he is sexy.

What are the 3 types of pudding? ›

Puddings made for dessert can be boiled and steamed puddings, baked puddings, bread puddings, batter puddings, milk puddings or even jellies. In some Commonwealth countries these puddings are known as custards (or curds) if they are egg-thickened, as blancmange if starch-thickened, and as jelly if gelatin-based.

What's in a Robert Redford cake? ›

Ingredients
  1. 1 chocolate cake (baked in a 9 x 13-inch baking pan)
  2. 3/4 cup fudge topping, slightly warmed.
  3. 3/4 cup caramel topping, or butterscotch topping, slightly warmed.
  4. 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk.
  5. 6 chocolate-covered toffee bars, such as Heath bars, divided; or 1 1/3 cups toffee and chocolate chips.
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What does the queen call pudding? ›

In the Royal Family, according to former royal chef Darren McGrady, they use the word 'pudding' to mean dessert after a main meal.

What is Michelle Obama's favorite cake? ›

Few things will top of a meal better than Michelle Obama's Favorite Red Velvet Cake from Delish.com.

What is Elvis Presley cake? ›

An Elvis Presley cake is a single-layer classic yellow cake that's topped with a pineapple glaze. Much like a poke cake, the syrup and juices of the pineapple will seep into the cake through fork holes, resulting in a decadent, ultra-moist cake.

What is the most famous pudding in the world? ›

Flan is probably the the most famous and widely adapted custard dessert in the world.

What do Brits call pudding? ›

The simple explanation is that Brits use the word 'pudding' to refer to dessert. If they are going to serve you an actual pudding they will specify the type of pudding – for example, sticky toffee pudding or rice pudding.

What is the most common pudding flavor? ›

The most common kind of pudding is chocolate. Some other kinds are vanilla, butterscotch, banana, and pistachio. Most pudding today is made out of milk, sugar, flavoring, and flour. Eggs can be used, too.

What is a hot dog cake? ›

These hot dog look-alikes are sure to bring the smiles at your next summer gathering. Homemade golden sponge cakes are filled with chocolate franks and garnished with yellow buttercream 'mustard'. Summer is in full swing and we're adjusting to new routines.

What is a godfather cake? ›

A two-tier Godfather themed cake featuring all hand-modeled and edible elements from the classic movie. The cake is lemon chiffon with a delicious raspberry butter-cream filling, covered in dark chocolate ganache and LMM fondant.

Why is it called Devil's cake? ›

Devil's Food Cake

There are a few theories as to how it got its name. One, it's the decadent counterpart to angel food cake. Two, it's sinfully delicious. Finally, devil's food cake came about during a time when food that was spicy, rich, or dark was described as deviled, like deviled ham and deviled eggs.

What did Princess Margaret call scrambled eggs? ›

Consider her nephew's current reputation and Margaret's blue-blooded insistence on calling scrambled eggs buttered eggs starts to look rather appealing. It's a small price to pay for a stable and enduring monarchy: that a king's daughter's might occasionally be too royal.

What was Prince Philip's Favourite pudding? ›

Prince Philip's Favourite Dessert was Crepe Islandaise.

What do Scots call pudding? ›

Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: DOST :: pudding.

What is the dessert called better than Robert Redford? ›

This delicious dessert has a layered pudding and cream cheese filling over a pecan crust.

What is the name of the best cake in the world? ›

Recipes. Sponge cake baked with meringue and almonds becomes the centerpiece of this delightful layer cake filled with custard and whipped cream. Kvæfjordkake began its inception in the north of Norway and has earned it's nickname as verdens beste, “the world's best”.

What is the most favorite cake in the world? ›

Chocolate. No cake flavours list is complete without chocolate topping it. Chocolate is often touted to be one of the best cake flavours. It's almost impossible to resist a slice of gooey, moist chocolate cake.

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