Wishing all the beautiful Mums A VERY HAPPY MOTHER”S DAY!
This day holds more meaning today because I am mum too and that am able to spend it my mother is like icing on the cake. My daughter is too young to understand the significance but she did give me a BIG HUG and rubbed her pudding smeared face all over my dress.
Sigh! Cleaning up is a 24X7 job when you have a naughty toddler.
I wasn’t really going to do anything for Mother’s day because I feel, as a mum atleast one day you can decide not to do anything and only relax. I began the day in that lazy state of mind and by afternoon, post after post started dropping in into my inbox. Every single one of them was about Mother’s Day celebration, brunch ideas, desserts, parties, day outs etc. It was difficult not to be affected by all the infectious enthusiasm of my fellow food bloggers. On a whim, I got up and busied myself in the kitchen scavenging for ingredients without the faintest idea of what I was going to make. But as one of my favourite author quotes – when you want something (done) badly, the entire universe conspires to give it to you. So I found all the right ingredients to make a simple Vanilla Chocolate pudding. Since it is incredibly hot here in Cochin these days, the mood was to have something chilled and sweet.
Recipe for Vanilla and Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients
1 litre milk ( I used two 500 ml Amul milk packets)
400 ml condensed milk
8 tbsp sugar
5 tbsp cocoa powder (unsweetened)
6 tsp of gelatin
4 tsp of vanilla essence.
white and dark chocolate chips (optional)
Preparation
1. Boil milk in two separate vessels ( 500 ml each) with 3 -4 tbsp each.
2. Once the milk boils add the condensed milk – 200 ml each in both the vessels and keep stirring at low -medium heat
3. Add the 3 tsp of vanilla essence in one of them and the 5 tbsp of cocoa powder in the other and keep stirring till it dissolves well in the milk mixture.
4. Dissolve gelatin 3tsp + 3tsp separately in 2 small bowls of warm water. Pour it into the respective milk mixture and keep stirring
5. Let the chocolate and vanilla mixtures cool.
6. Pour them into moulds/bowls and chill in refrigerator. It would take about 5-6 hours to set completely.
7. Decorate with some white and dark chocolate chips and some caramelized sugar topping.
So it did look like an ideal Mother’s day celebratory pudding and I am glad my mum enjoyed it as much as my daughter. Isn’t it incredible that all the 3 generations of mums and daughters were together for Mother’s day celebration!!
N.B. I had already published this post but editing it again to write about the method of making caramelized sugar decoration.
You will need : 3-4 tbsp of sugar ( I used the white sugar). Keep a sheet of foil ready on the kitchen top.
Preparation: Heat the sugar in a pan on a stove and let it melt.
The moment you see that the sugar has melted and has taken on a light brown colour, remove from heat. It will continue to caramelize and take a deeper colour.
Take a fork and start drizzling the brown liquid sugar on the foil in a random pattern.
Let it cool down on the foil.
Once it cools down, it would be easy for you to pick it off the foil and break it into pieces to use as decorative pieces on top of cakes, puddings, cupcakes etc.
Super easy and yet so beautiful!
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