In keeping with my own advice from the last post, I went into my kitchen willing to try something I had never tasted before, something I had never heard of before, something I thought was a completely original dessert: blueberry mocha pudding.
Technically, berries taste good with chocolate. Chocolate tastes good with coffee. So, shouldn't berries taste good with chocolate and coffee? The suspense of that answer was motivation enough for me to venture to attempt the combination.
After doing a quick inventory of what I had in the kitchen, I chose blueberries (the only kind of berry we had, albeit frozen, not fresh). Luckily, we had cappuccino mix and my parents didn't finish their pot of coffee from the morning, making it an obvious invitation for me to use the leftover coffee.
Since I did not want to experiment with the texture of pudding, I thought it would be best to not put in whole blueberries. But since the berries were frozen, all I had to do to get a lot of their juices out was just thaw them. Of course, with my patience being unusually short when it comes to trying a new dessert, I put them directly in the microwave and it worked just the same. After squeezing and pressing all the juice out of them, I was ready.
I made regular vanilla pudding and regular chocolate pudding. Except the chocolate pudding wasn't completely "regular" per se. Instead of using just milk, as the recipe asked, I substituted some of the cappuccino and coffee to bring out the flavor. The result: mocha pudding! Upon initial tasting, the coffee taste was overpowering, but when mixed with the overly sweet vanilla pudding, they complemented each other perfectly!
After mixing the two puddings, my sister artistically poured the blueberry juice on top and voila: blueberry mocha puddin' for all! And it tasted fantastic, too. ;)
P.S. Stay tuned for more sweets soon, since the chemical engineering kids have requested some tasty treats from me this weekend!
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