Biscuit pudding

Biscuit pudding can be served for dessert.

Quantity used below can serve : 4 people
Cooking time : 15 minutes

Ingredients :

Marie biscuits - 20 nos
Whole milk - 900 ml
Sugar - 75 gm + 1 tbsp
Vanilla custard powder - 3 tbsp
Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp
Instant coffee powder - 1 tbsp
Water - 55 ml

For garnishing :

Chopped nuts
Chocolate vermicelli
Chocolate chips


Method :

1. Mix cocoa powder and vanilla custard powder in 1/4 cup of milk and whisk it with no lumps.

2. Boil the remaining milk and once it comes to boil, add the sugar and mix well.

3. Add cocoa custard mixture (from step 1) and mix it vigorously using the whisk.

4. Boil until the mixture becomes thick which takes about 5 minutes.
    (The right consistency for a good custard is if you draw a line, the line should stay
      without getting mixed up)

5. Check the sweetness of custard at this stage and add sugar (if needed) so that it will melt nicely
    with the heat.

6. Boil the water and add coffee powder to it and mix well. Pour this in flat shallow plate.

7. Take a serving dish and pour a ladle full of custard. Spread it to get a thin layer of pudding in the
     bottom of serving dish.

8. Dip each Marie biscuit in the coffee mixture for 2 seconds and arrange them to form a layer of
    biscuits. Repeat with half the biscuits. You can roughly make them into pieces to fill the gaps in
    between.

9. Sprinkle some of the garnishing on top of that.

10. Add another layer of the prepared custard while it is still hot on them evenly.

11. Repeat the process of dipping the remaining biscuits and arranging them on the custard and
      pour the Remaining custard over it.

12. Gently tap the dish so that custard will settle in the edges.

13. Sprinkle the remaining garnishing over it.

14. Let the pudding to come to room temperature. Cover it with cling and keep it  refrigerated for
       6-8 hours or overnight.

Serve it cold with chocolate ice cream.


Notes :

1. You can also use drinking chocolate instead of cocoa powder for a much sweeter taste.

2. You can substitute custard powder with the same quantity of corn flour and 1 tsp vanilla
     essence in the recipe.