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Vanilla and Chocolate Maicena Pudding

March 13, 2015

Vanilla and Chocolate Maicena Pudding Recipe: Based on a Dominican Children's favorite breakfast dish, it is perfect for when you need a comforting dessert.

Few Dominican children have escaped it, and although it’s not as popular these days, nearly all of us have eaten a version of this dish at some time or other. It was usually served as breakfast or dinner, and sometimes as a mild, comfort food when we were sick.

Coincidentally, a couple of readers recently mentioned that they would like a recipe for it, so I set out to do that. It took longer than I intended as my body just wasn’t into the whole “working” thing.

And I wasn’t just procrastinating.

Vanilla and Chocolate Maicena Pudding Recipe: Based on a Dominican Children's favorite breakfast dish, it is perfect for when you need a comforting dessert.

Do you remember that trip to Israel a few weeks ago? Well, I decided that the best thing to do after that was to take another long trip in the opposite direction of the clock, all the way to California. To be honest, this trip had been planned well before the Israel trip, but I clearly thought I was up to the task. Why didn’t anyone remind me just how old I am?

I hadn’t recovered from an eastward case of jet lag when I added some westward jet lag to it. Yeah, like 12 hours in both directions of my time line. And to top it I caught a case of the flu, or perhaps a really bad cold. What I thought was a simple case of “get your tush off that bed and get going” ended up as a week in bed and taking care of my daughter who also got the same bug from me. Hurray!

There’s my excuse for my disappearance as of lately.

Vanilla and Chocolate Maicena Pudding Recipe: Based on a Dominican Children's favorite breakfast dish, it is perfect for when you need a comforting dessert.

So I decided to make a “maicena” pudding for my child, who was barely surviving on yogurt for a couple of days. My mom used to make this for me when I was feeling down too. It’s as mild a food as can possibly be, although in this case the addition of chocolate, coconut and vanilla also makes for a very nice dessert.

And dessert always makes us feel better.

Buen provecho!

Aunt Clara

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Vanilla and Chocolate Maicena Pudding Recipe
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
15 mins
 
Vanilla and Chocolate Maicena Pudding Recipe: Based on a Dominican Children's favorite breakfast dish, it is perfect for when you need a comforting dessert.
Servings: 6 servings
Author: Clara Gonzalez
Ingredients
  • 6 cups of whole milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 1/2 cup of sugar
  • seeds of 2 vanilla pods , or 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup of cornstarch
  • 1/2 cup of toasted coconut flakes
Instructions
  1. Mix milk salt and sugar. Mix in cornstarch. Add vanilla seeds or cocoa powder, depending on which you're making. Sieve to eliminate undissolved solids.
  2. Pour into a pot and heat over medium heat, stirring constantly to prevent it from sticking. Once it breaks a boil, lower heat and continue stirring until it has thickened to the same consistency as condensed milk. Remove from heat.
  3. Pour into another bowl and stir until it has cooled to room temperature. Pour into small serving cups. Sprinkle with toasted coconut and chill.
Notes & Nutrition Facts

Choose whether to make the chocolate or the vanilla versions and prepare accordingly. Or you can make in two halves and serve in layers after cooling (see photo).

Use almond milk for a vegan version.

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If these are vegan recipes why did you say whole milk? Vegans drinf nut based milks like almond, coconut, or cashew etc. I think you need to change that.

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Please do read the whole recipe. I think you may have missed the end. 🙂

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Will I be able to leave the cups in the refrigerator overnight?

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They’ll get a thick crust on top. If you don’t mind, then yes.

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Hello! I am making this recipe for my class tomorrow, my professor is vegan. I followed the recipe to a T (cocoa one) and got the condensed milk consistency. I have placed the pudding in the fridge and was just wondering how long this will take to turn into pudding consistency? 5 hours? 8 hours? 12 hours?

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About an hour.

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Hi Aunt Clara,

I Love Your Website. You should rhink of getting an application for it. I think it would do great.

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I’m sorry to hear you weren’t feeling well! Lots of travel can really knock you out especially with the time differences too…Hopefully you’re doing better now!

-Kelsey

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