With the recent cold and snowy conditions outside, we’ve been ramping up our dinners with hot desserts. We’ve enjoyed home-made rice pudding twice this week; the first was a baked one, cooked in the oven. The one we’re sharing here is a chocolate rice pudding, made in a slow-cooker.
Rice pudding is probably one of the most ‘un-labour-intensive’ desserts you can make. You practically switch on your slow-cooker, pour all the ingredients into the bowl, give it a stir, put the lid on and leave it for a couple of hours. You can lift the lid, take a peek and give it a stir if you want… but even that isn’t completely necessary.
After 3 or so hours, you’ll have hot, creamy, chocolatey rice pudding ready to enjoy. I like to eat mine hot and quite thick, Justin prefers his cool and a thinner consistency. How do you prefer yours?
The good thing about making rice pudding in a slow-cooker (rather than baking in an oven) is that, as it’s cooking, if it’s looking to thick for your taste, you can add a little bit more milk and stir every so often to make sure it’s just as you like it.
Make sure you use short-grain pudding rice or Italian Arborio rice. It’s a lot more absorbent than long grain rice and produces a creamy pudding with firm grains.
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Slow-cooker chocolate rice pudding
Equipment
- Slow cooker
Ingredients
Instructions
- Turn on the slow-cooker to high and add the butter
- When the butter has melted, add the pudding rice, stirring to coat all the grains
- Add about a ¼ of the milk and stir
- Once the slow-cooker contents have warmed up again, add the cocoa powder and stir well to combine
- Pour in the rest of the milk, followed by the cream stirring to mix in. Put the lid on and let the contents warm up again
- Once warm, add the caster sugar, stirring to dissolve
- Stir in the vanilla extract. Replace the lid
- Cook for 3 hours. After the first hour, you could stir the pudding to make sure the consistancy it to your liking. If it's too thick, add a little more milk and replace the lid. Repeat after another hour and again, just before it's finished cooking
Hot if make it myself but do like those Muller style rice pots.
Hot rice pudding for me
I like both but if push comes to shove, I’ll go for cold. Cold tinned rice pudding kept me going through chemo.
I prefer it hot but I don’t dislike it cold
Sounds great – i love it cold and hot!
I love homemade rice pudding cold the next day.
I love cold in summer but always hot in winter
I prefer warm rice pudding
I like both but I prefer hot rice pudding.
Warm for me though I have been known when younger to eat it cold out of the tin
Super cold!
I can’t eat regular Rice Pudding any more due to Cow’s Milk Protein sensitivity: for some reason rice pudding is one of the worst cow’s milk containing recipes in terms of causing bad effects.
Has to be hot for me
Hot for me
I only like rice pudding hot
hmmm, i do like hot rice pudding, but then i do enjoy things like muller rice and the ambrosia rice pots, i will go with hot though
I don’t like rice pudding at all.
I like rice pudding both ways but if I had to choose I would have it hot.
Hot
Deffo HOT!
I’m not a fan of rice pudding but if forced to eat it it has to be piping hot
I love it cold straight out of the tin, I don’ tlike home made rice pudding either only tinned
Hot!
Definitely hot with some tart jam in the middle!
I like it hot
I definitely prefer cold rice pudding!
Love it hot or cold, from a pressure cooker, an oven or a tin! A lifelong favourite!
This is right up my street. I can’t wait to try it.
Hot please
It’s got to be hot
Definitely hot rice pudding for me
I prefer it cold
Has to be hot rice pudding for me
I love rice pudding but it has to be hot.
Like it hot but then do like it to cool down a bit and form a skin x
Oh I do love rice pudding, I will have to try this recipe thank you!
For me rice pudding has to be hot.
I prefer mine hot 🙂
Cold! Most pudds taste better cold.
Hot on a cold day and cold on a hot day!
Hot but I don’t think I’ve had it cold!
Hot
Hot