To make a sumptuous chocolate custard pudding all you need are milk, chocolate, sugar, and eggs. You can dress and decorate this remarkable gourmet dessert recipe in numberless ways to impress important guests like your boss, your clients, or your loved one.

Puddings are often thickened with cornstarch or other starchy equivalent. Custard is set with eggs. Both pudding and custard can be boiled and then chilled. Or cook on the stovetop and bake in the oven. In this simple dessert recipe, the chocolate is melted in the saucepan and combined with milk. Mix together the egg, flour, and sugar until smooth and fluffy. Add the melted chocolate to the egg mixture and blend well together. The whole thing is then placed in pudding cups, custard cups or ramekins and placed in a water bath then baked in the oven.

Add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture off the heat to ensure that the eggs do not coagulate or turn into scrambled eggs. Stir the mixture constantly to prevent lumps from forming using an eggbeater or a wooden spoon. Pass the mixture through a sieve if there are any lumps or grains, to get rid of any granules or specks like eggshells.

If the cooking is correctly done the chocolate custard pudding will turn out like little chocolate volcanoes with a thin crisp surface on top that is just beginning to crack, revealing the warm and gooey chocolate goodness inside. You can serve the pudding in tiny elegant glasses or ramekins, which you can use for baking the custard pudding. Topping the individual pudding with whipped cream is fine. You may also use slices of fresh fruits like strawberries, oranges, or bananas for an attractive presentation. Although it is already quite heavenly on its own, just dig in with a dessert spoon.

Ingredients2 cups milk½ cup chocolate

¼ cup white sugar4 eggs

1. Grate and melt the chocolate in saucepan with little water. Add milk to this, mix well and then boil it again.

2. Beat the eggs and sugar together till fluffy. Add the chocolate and milk mixture and mix well. Pour this into cups or a pudding dish and level it.

3. Set pudding dish in a baking pan partially filled with water. In a preheated oven at 350 degree F, bake it for about 30 to 35 minutes.