It's powder food day again

about 4 years ago

It is powder food day again.

Today I will try out this. Again a bag of powder of the brand Dr. Oetker. Dr. Oetker can not be a food specialist or a chef. Although the bag says it's not chemical I can assure you it is.

It's brown again so this is...
Something that tastes and smells terrible. I tried some powder and so did the youngest.
This is even worse as the "oatmeal" we tried lately on Dr. Oetker day

This turns out to be pudding.
Chocolate pudding with rum. One thing is for sure Dr. Oetker does not use real cocoa and the rum is fake too. My eyes start tearing as soon as I open this bag.

By experience, I learned this pudding does not taste like the chocolate pudding and custard we are used too. Dutch people have a huge diary culture and we have many different custards and puddings. Dr. Oetker gave us once chocolate pudding and I decided at that time to change the recipe too.

Needed:
500 ml of milk
3-5 tablespoons sugar.

I used:
400 milk
600 water (hot water)
2 teaspoons cocoa
5 tablespoons sugar

Add everything to the milk/water and stir well.
Put it on a low fire and keep stirring. If not it gets burned. The warmer it gets the thicker it will be. You will see so stay close to your pan and do not leave or watch a film in the meantime.

The way it looks if you are heating it up.
I tasted it and the terrible "chemical rum" taste became a bit less. Thanks to my cocoa we taste more chocolate.

As you can see this is not pudding what I made.

After I picked up the bus-kid from the library I stirred the custard a bit more and served it with slices of the last banana we have. The kid read it in a library book.

Here is what we call in Dutch chocoladevla (chocolate custard)

I added some chocolate sprinkles to it.
These sprinkles are cheap and it's typically Dutch to eat them on your bread (butter first).

If you do not have the Dr. Oetker powder you can make this dessert easily yourself.

Ingredients homemade chocolate pudding:

2 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cornflour
Stir through some water.
Add it to 400 ml milk put on a low fire till it gets thicker, keep stirring so it won't get burned.
For the chocolate custard you use about 250-300 ml more milk/water.

If you like you can add (whipped) cream through it once it's cold.

I never used rice flour but I assume you can use it instead of cornflour too.

Conclusion
This tastes bad and it is more expensive and not easier as making your own. If you live in the Netherlands the cheapest way is to buy 1-liter chocolate custard in the shop. Homemade with the help of Dr. Oetker is more expensive.