Avocado Chocolate Pudding

Avocado chocolate pudding secretly disguises avocado within swirls of deep, dark chocolate flavor. Not only is it delicious, but it’s healthy and nutritious–win-win.

This avocado chocolate pudding is one of those sneaky treats which uses a healthy ingredient that no one knows is included!

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I bet if you asked, no one would guess that this creamy avocado chocolate pudding is made with avocado!

I’m not usually a nature hater, but I’m still at war with a squirrel in my avocado tree. You may recall my frustration with this creature over a year ago when I posted my avocado and tomato salad.

Well, all this time later, that squirrel still gets to more of my avocados than I do! I pick so many of them off the ground that I just had to do something different with the avocados as they were ripening all at once.

Which Avocados are Best?

Obviously, if you have access to local fruit, those avocados will be the best. Otherwise, any you find will work in this recipe because you truly can’t taste the fruit. Have duds that just have no flavor? This is a great reason to make this avocado chocolate pudding! However, if you want to order good avocados, you’ll find quite a few choices including Hass avocados at Melissa’s Produce.

Love avocados? Try this avocado toast recipe, it’s fantastic (with burrata!)

Serendipity struck when I saw Manu’s Menu chocolate avocado mousse recipe! It looked so dark, thick and rich, and so incredibly easy to make. I made a few changes to this chocolate and avocado pudding as I wanted a bit of a boozy dessert, but you can totally omit the alcohol. You can also make it even healthier by substituting honey or maple syrup for the powdered sugar, but my opinion is that the flavor will suffer.

Are you looking to use avocado in a main course instead?
Try my pasta with avocado & cherry tomatoes!

By the way, no one in my family realized that there was avocado in this avocado and chocolate pudding until I told them, but not until after they’d scoffed them all!

Avocado Chocolate Pudding

adapted from Manu’s Menu Chocolate Avocado Mousse                  serves 4

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Ingredients

• dark chocolate
• avocados
• unsweetened cocoa powder
• (optional: Kahlua or other coffee flavored liqueur)
• (optional: espresso powder)
• pinch of salt
• confectioner’s sugar

Special equipment: food processor

Step by Step Directions for Chocolate Avocado Pudding

Melt the chocolate and set aside.

Place the remaining ingredients: ripe avocados, unsweetened cocoa powder, salt and powdered sugar (along with the liqueur and coffee powder, if using) into a food processor and blend until smooth.

Add the melted chocolate and continue to blend until evenly mixed to create the avocado chocolate pudding.

Ta dah! See how easy that was? It’s ready! You can now taste it to see if you like more sugar, or more coffee flavor, and adjust to your liking. This pudding recipe is vegetarian, vegan and gluten free!

Pipe or spoon into serving glasses, bowls or cups and refrigerate until ready to serve. Keep leftovers in the refrigerator for up to two days; do not freeze. If you liked my  avocado chocolate pudding recipe, I bet you’ll like more of my desserts, like this easy blender lemon ice cream recipe. Others can be found by using my list of desserts. If you want more of an avocado chocolate mousse you could fold in some stiffly beaten egg whites (not vegan if you do this.)

Apparently, Kourteney Kardashian makes an avocado pudding, but this is so much better, because hers has no cocoa powder or chocolate. Trust me, the health benefits also increase if you use good quality cocoa powder and dark chocolate!

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