Chocolate Cashew Pudding
This Dairy-Free Chocolate Cashew Pudding is a favorite in our home. It involves no baking or cooking and I’m hoping it will become a favorite in your home as well!
This chocolate cashew pudding is a rich and delicious treat. With just 7 ingredients, you can whip this up in a jiffy! And, what I mean by “jiffy” is throw all the ingredients into the blender, blend until smooth, top with dairy-free topping if you like, and dig in!
If you have a good blender, this dairy-free pudding can be blended until it is lusciously creamy. However, if your blender has a hard time grinding nuts, then this dessert might end up a bit “textured”.
But, creamy or textured, this is a delicious, dairy-free treat that we have enjoyed over and over again.
In fact, when my daughter was in high school, the teacher in her home economics class had the students make this dish for one of their demos. She even wrote and told me that she and her students enjoyed it immensely!
*This post on Chocolate Cashew Pudding was originally published in September 2014. I have updated it with new photos and I am republishing it today. The content below is from the original post.*
I have found that sometimes sitting on a fence can get quite comfortable…minutes turn into months…and yup, I am still sitting there!
I got on the fence regarding making a big purchasing decision between a nut-grinding blender or a high-powered food processor months ago! I have been doing so much research…
And, I am still using my no-name, quirky blender. It was getting the job done just fine, which made me just put off making a decision; but lately, it’s not doing so well with nuts.
So, last Thursday, when I posted this Mystery Ingredient Chocolate Pudding, I sure was hoping y’all would see the grainy texture of cashews in that spoonful…
And, Helen @ Scrummy Lane did!!! Kudos lady – virtual fist bump and high fives and hugs and hip hip hurrahs all around!!
To all of y’all that entertained my need for games and played along – thank you ALL!!!
As a kid, my mom fixed me avocado pudding on a regular basis, when I was able to make it for my self I started adding chocolate to it (a few times, I even added protein powder to it and amped it up – so, all of y’all that guessed avocado – y’all were right about most of the chocolate pudding bowls I make.
But this time, after making this Non-Dairy, No Bake, Chocolate Cashew Cake, I figured I would experiment some more with cashew cream, and ooh-la-la – this was one delightful bowl of chocolate!
So sorry to have kept y’all waiting so long for this reveal – I attended my very first Food Blogger Conference on Friday and did not pre-plan a post.
As for the conference, it was AH-MAZING to meet in person some lovely people who comment on here and who I have interacted with online…and…there was so much delicious food…and…so much information…I don’t think 8 hours have ever gone by as fast for me, as they did on Friday!
Happy, Happy New Week Y’all! And thanks again for playing along!
If you love this, then also check out this easy 3-ingredient chocolate mousse!
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups soaked cashews cashews immersed and soaked in water overnight
- 3 tablespoons cocoa or can use 3 tablespoons of melted dark chocolate
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup or honey
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- Sprinkle of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup almond milk
Instructions
- Add the cashews and almond milk to a blender or food processor and blend till smooth and creamy
- Add the cocoa/chocolate, honey, cinnamon, salt and vanilla and blend till well incorporated
- Chill for and hour at least before digging into
Yum! This pudding looks so luscious and creamy!
Thanks so much Lisa!
This sounds delicious and looks so decadent. I would love to try this.
Thanks so much Taruna! I sure hope you do try it soon would love to know what you think
Dangit! I was wrong again. And how amazing are those blogging conferences?! I really wish I could attend more of them because it’s such a great experience to be able to finally meet people that you’re usually only able to interact with via the blog. Hopefully we find ourselves at the same conference one of these days!!
I thought for sure that last photo would give it away!
Sweet lady – I cannot wait to meet you – you have been such an inspiration tome Spoons!
Yum!!!!!!!! I still need to tackle soaking cashews for something… this looks like a good way to start! Pinning this for later 🙂
Thanks so much Kelli – in my cooking adventures, cashew cream can be sweetened up or spiced up for a hummus like concoction…
I totally missed the original post but love that pudding, cashew cream and chocolate what a great combination. I also love avocado and chocolate pudding
Thanks Suzanne – OOh both those sound wonderful and their common denominator is CHOCOLATE!!! 🙂
How healthy and delicious! A wonderful pudding.
Thank you for your heartwarming comment/compliments/kind words!
Cheers,
Rosa xo
Thank YOU for your sweet comments, friend!
You are one heck of an amazing photographer – don’t loose sight of that!
xxs
Thanks ever so much dear! 🙂 xo
Yay for no gelatin and for cashews! This looks delicious and I am completely surprised!
Thanks Lindsey – so am curious – whaz up with the gelatin-hating? 🙂
because it’s made from boiling horse, cow or pig bones and hooves…grosses me out. http://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/what-is-gelatin-made-of/
when you put it like that…I understand TOTALLY!!!
Huh! Should’ve guessed that! I use cashew cream all the time in my kormas!
Can’t believe how luscious the pudding looks with no cream or gelatin. Great job! Happy Monday!!
Thanks Nazneen – ooh cashew cream in your kormas??? Now I am salivating!
Very clever! I have also made chocolate pudding and chocolate mousse with tofu… it’s pretty good too. 🙂
Thanks so much! You know what – I haven’t tried tofu in a sweet dish yet…
Ooooh cashew cream is genius!! Hahaha I knew avocado would be too easy 🙂 Love all your sneaky mystery ingredients you use. Yay for going to your first conference too, hope you learned lots and had a wonderful time 🙂
Haha – thanks Kelly – but I really though you and everyone would get it after that last photo…
Ooh, Shashi, I am glowing with pride right now! That was such a wild guess as well! 🙂
Good for you for going to the conference … that must have been so exciting and I hope I get a chance to do that very soon!
CONGRATS Helen!!! Whoo hoo – you dabombdiggity lady!!!
I hope you get to attend a conference too – one preferably that I am at so I can give you an-in-person high five!
Why Why Why didn’t I look at your page before going to the grocery store. I definitely would’ve picked up some cashews. I suppose I’ll just have to drool of your photos until I get back there next week. Is that okay with you? Yeah.. well great!
Haha – thanks Jessie – I hopeyou got to get some cashews and have got to drool over your cashew cream instead of drool over our computer! 🙂
I want to know more about the conference! Avocado… I knew if couldn’t be that easy 🙂
Daniela – I sure did …a quick recap went up on Tuesday/Wednesday
o yes, cashew ‘cheese’…must give this a try some time soon.
I sure hope you do Angie!
xx
I wondered if it was nuts and then I thought I was being nuts. 🙂 I hate making decisions like this. I’d want them both.
Haha – Maureen – my parents always told me to go with my gut…and soaked cashews are also good for your gut… 🙂
I would love a huge bowl of this in front of me right now! Hope you had fun at your first food blog conference!
Thanks Ashley!!! Ye – TECHmunch was fantabulous on so many levels!