{"slug":"mexican-chocolate-pudding","collection":"recipes","is_recipe":true,"visibility":"public","title":"Mexican Chocolate Pudding","description":"A deeply spiced chocolate pudding made with oat milk steeped with guajillo chiles, cinnamon, and vanilla, finished with bittersweet chocolate and cognac.","body_md":"\n## Ingredients\n- 2 dried guajillo chiles, stemmed, sliced, and seeds removed\n- 1 saigon cinnamon stick\n- 1/2 ceylon cinnamon stick\n- 2 vanilla pods, sliced open, seeds scraped out, and cut in half.\n- 1 tablespoon congnac\n- 480ml (2 cups) oat milk\n\n- 33g granulated sugar\n- 33g brown sugar\n- 30g unsweetened cocoa powder\n- 20g cornstarch\n- 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt\n- 115g (4oz) bittersweet chocolate, chopped\n- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract\n\n## Preheat Oven\nPreheat oven to 175°F.\n\n## Method\n\n### Steep Milk\nIn a glass bowl, combine:\n- guajillo chiles\n- cinnamon sticks\n- vanilla pods and scraped seeds\n- congnac\n- oat milk\n\nCover bowl with plastic wrap and let steep the oven for **two hours**.\n\n### Strain milk\nRemove the milk the oven and pour though a fine mesh sieve into a large bowl. Set aside to cool slightly.\n\n### Pudding Prep\n In a medium saucepan, combine:\n- granulated sugar\n- brown sugar\n- cocoa powder\n- cornstarch\n- salt\n\nSlowly whisk in the milk until smooth and combined.\n\n\u003c!--  --\u003e\n\n### Cook Pudding\n1.  Over medium heat, constanly stir the milk mixture, scraping the bottom and sides of the saucepan.\n2.  Cook until the pudding thickens, bubbles slightly, and the mixture coats the back of a spoon (5-10 minutes).\n3.  Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Vigoriously stir until the chocolate is completely melted.\n\n## Serve\n1.  Pour the mixture into individual ramekins and place on a baking sheet.\n2.  Serve warm or chill for later.\n\n\n## Notes\n\n- **Unit repair (2026-07-30):** the ounce figures in this recipe were placeholders, not conversions — everything between 14g and 40g had been written \"(1oz)\" and everything between 43g and 65g \"(2oz)\". The gram weights are correct and unchanged; only the bogus ounce fragments are removed. Where a spoon or cup measure sat in the same parentheses it is kept, since that one is real.\n\n\n- **Orphan vanilla placed (2026-07-30):** the 1 teaspoon vanilla extract was listed but never called for in any step (the steep uses the scraped pods, not the extract). Added it to the off-heat finish alongside the chocolate, which is where extract goes in a cooked pudding — heat drives it off. Nothing else changed; the amount is the recipe’s own.\n","draft":false,"servings":"4","prep_time":"10 minutes","cook_time":"2 hours 15 minutes","total_time":"2 hours 25 minutes","created_at":"2026-03-23T13:39:56Z","updated_at":"2026-07-30T22:26:27.658736Z","categories":["dessert"],"tags":["Chili","chocolate","Cinnamon","Cognac","Guajillo","Vanilla"],"methods":["Stove-Top"],"ingredients":[{"section":"","items":["- 2 dried guajillo chiles, stemmed, sliced, and seeds removed","- 1 saigon cinnamon stick","- 1/2 ceylon cinnamon stick","- 2 vanilla pods, sliced open, seeds scraped out, and cut in half.","- 1 tablespoon congnac","- 480ml (2 cups) oat milk","- 33g granulated sugar","- 33g brown sugar","- 30g unsweetened cocoa powder","- 20g cornstarch","- 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt","- 115g (4oz) bittersweet chocolate, chopped","- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract"],"parsed":[{"raw":"- 2 dried guajillo chiles, stemmed, sliced, and seeds removed","qty":2,"item":"dried guajillo chiles, stemmed, sliced, and seeds removed"},{"raw":"- 1 saigon cinnamon stick","qty":1,"item":"saigon cinnamon stick"},{"raw":"- 1/2 ceylon cinnamon stick","qty":0.5,"item":"ceylon cinnamon stick"},{"raw":"- 2 vanilla pods, sliced open, seeds scraped out, and cut in half.","qty":2,"item":"vanilla pods","prep":"sliced open, seeds scraped out, and cut in half."},{"raw":"- 1 tablespoon congnac","qty":1,"unit":"tbsp","item":"congnac"},{"raw":"- 480ml (2 cups) oat milk","qty":480,"unit":"ml","item":"oat milk"},{"raw":"- 33g granulated sugar","qty":33,"unit":"g","item":"granulated sugar"},{"raw":"- 33g brown sugar","qty":33,"unit":"g","item":"brown sugar"},{"raw":"- 30g unsweetened cocoa powder","qty":30,"unit":"g","item":"unsweetened cocoa powder"},{"raw":"- 20g cornstarch","qty":20,"unit":"g","item":"cornstarch"},{"raw":"- 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt","qty":0.125,"unit":"tsp","item":"fine sea salt"},{"raw":"- 115g (4oz) bittersweet chocolate, chopped","qty":115,"unit":"g","item":"bittersweet chocolate","prep":"chopped"},{"raw":"- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract","qty":1,"unit":"tsp","item":"vanilla extract"}]}],"servings_int":4,"qc":{"status":"passed","last_checked_at":"2026-07-30T22:26:32.046969Z","checked_by":"claude-code","standard_version":"2026-07-29","findings_count":0,"stale":false}}