Easy Vegan Chocolate Pudding
Serves 6
Ingredients:
6 ounces
semi-sweet chocolate chips*
1 10-ounce package firm
silken (aseptic-packed) tofu
1 to 2 tablespoons brown sugar, honey**, or
brown rice syrup
Dash of
nutmeg
Peanut butter to taste
1 banana, sliced into rounds
Melt the chocolate chips in a small
saucepan or
double boiler over medium heat.
Pour the melted chocolate into a food processor.
Add the tofu and process until smooth.
Add the brown sugar, honey, or rice syrup.
Sprinkle in the nutmeg.
Process again until velvety smooth.
Spread peanut butter in the bottom of six dessert cups.
Pour pudding into dessert cups.
Top with banana slices.
Chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
Voila!
*Note: make sure you use the kind whose ingredients say "soy lecithin" rather than just "lecithin".
Chiisuta informs me that lecithin that isn't specified as soy lecithin often comes from animal sources.
**Depending on whether you consider honey to be vegan. This doesn't seem to be widely agreed upon.