Chocolate Malted Pudding Recipe

It took me a few weeks to find malted milk powder in San Francisco, so this was on the back burner until today! I like making chocolate pudding, with most recipes it only takes a minute or two, and it makes your whole house smell like warm chocolate-y goodness.

That said, this is going to be the last chocolate recipe for a while. After yesterdays chocolate cake and now this....well, need I say more? The quest has been on for a recipe to trump the amazing Mexican Chocolate Pudding I made a while back. This malted pudding was good, but nowhere close as good as the Mexican Chocolate Pudding. I think the whole malted thing made it smell and taste a bit like something you might get in a cafeteria somewhere. Somewhere like a hospital, institution, or prison.

Whenever I read a recipe for anything with malt in it, it inevitably says something like "tastes just like it did when you were a kid"....I'm not entirely sure what era malted drinks were popular, but I don't think it was in 70s California. Is this a midwest thing? Or is it that most cookbook authors were kids in the 50s?

At any rate, this was my maiden recipe from the "New Way to Cook" book. If I remember correctly this book got all sorts of raves when it came out last year, and I snapped it up at the library last week when I saw it on the 'first-stop' shelf. The 'new' angle with it is that you can cook and eat many of your favorite foods in a much more healthy manner, without compromising flavor and taste. The recipes overall tend to have a Mediterranean flair, but there are some all-american favorites like mac and cheese sprinkled throughout. At first glance she seems to use tactics like using less oil and butter (but not eliminating them altogether, and different cooking methods i.e. cooking in parchment paper, and roasting).

There are a few more recipes I've tagged for the near future including: Roasted Wild Mushrooms (roasting instead of sauteeing in butter), Greek-Style Potatoes with Lemon and Thyme, Spring Vegetable Ragout, Fresh Corn Polenta, Cold Spicy Sesame Noodles, Rosemary Buttermilk Biscuits, Corn Soup with Chiles-Lime + Cilantro Cream, and a Pistachio and Almond Cake. Lots of good recipes in here to try...

To feature an actual recipe taken from a cookbook, it is best to request permission from the publisher or author. In the early days on 101 Cookbooks, I would tell people where to find the recipe, but not feature the recipe itself. Eventually I began to request permission to run the actual recipes, but this wasn't one of them. The majority of entries on 101 Cookbooks will have the recipes attached, this just happens to be one of the ones that doesn't. My apologies!

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