This stove top version of custard just takes a few minutes to cook and then it's ready to chill. You can serve it with your favorite fresh fruit or other toppings.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Pudding, Mousse, and More
Pudding and custards are actually easier to make than they sound. Even creme brulee can be made by an average home cook (no culinary experience necessary!)
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Stove Top Soft Custard
Flan De Queso (Puerto Rican Style)
A cream cheese flan with a hint of coconut flavor and a sweet homemade caramel sauce.
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
60 Second Chocolate Mousse
This marvelous mousse is lightning-fast and the technique is brilliant. Easy enough to be a last-minute dessert, decadent enough for any time.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Bread Pudding With White Chocolate Sauce
Bread pudding is a classic dessert that gets a delicious update with the addition of white chocolate sauce.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Slow Cooker Oatmeal Creme Brulee
Experience the comforting warmth of oatmeal combined with the rich, creamy texture of a traditional creme brulee, all prepared effortlessly in your slow cooker.
Method: stovetop, crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
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Microwave Sticky Toffee Pudding
Get ready to satisfy your sweet tooth with sticky toffee pudding, featuring a rich sponge and a velvety toffee sauce. It's quick to whip up in the microwave, and pairs...
Method: microwave, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Vanilla Rice Pudding
Rich and creamy, this simple rice pudding made with instant rice and vanilla pudding mix can be served hot or cold.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Cream Cheese Strawberry Mousse
Shh, but cream cheese is the secret to a light and fluffy mousse that's laughably easy to put together.
Time: 2-5 hours
Honey Egg Custard
A sweet and creamy dessert that can be served hot or cold. It's rich and delicious and can be served drizzled with honey or topped with fruit.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Vanilla Pudding Mix
If you're ever in a pinch for pudding mix, it's easier to whip up than you think. Household staples like dry milk, cornstarch, and sugar are all you really need.
Time: under 30 minutes
Fat Free Chocolate Mousse
A sweet treat that cuts down on calories without sacrificing flavor. This dessert is easy to whip up and can be varied easily to include other flavors.
Time: 2-5 hours
Baked Hot Chocolate
If you've ever dreamt of having hot chocolate as a full-on dessert, don't let your dreams just be dreams. This baked hot chocolate topped with whipped cream makes for a decadent...
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Copycat Sylvia's Restaurant Signature Banana Pudding
Sylvia Woods is known as the Queen of Soul Food and her signature banana pudding, still served at her restaurant today, is a perfect example of her...
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Blue Ribbon Bread Pudding
Made with torn pieces of French bread, plump raisins, and a creamy custard mixture of eggs, milk, and warm spices, this dessert is both easy to make and absolutely delicious.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Butternut Squash Creme Brulee
Made with sugar, butternut squash, vanilla extract, heavy cream, half and half, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, egg yolks
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Old Fashioned Baked Rice Pudding
There's nothing quite like a warm, homey bowl of rice pudding. The rich custard base is studded with plump raisins and flavorful cinnamon, making each bite even more...
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Arroz Con Leche (Cuban Rice Pudding)
This creamy, cinnamon-spiced Cuban treat is a great one to have in your repertoire. It's easy to cook big batches ahead of time, so there's no stressing when it's...
Time: 1-2 hours
Low Carb Dark Chocolate Custard
A rich, low-carb dessert that feels like cheating. Heavy cream, chocolate, and a combination of three different sugar substitutes keep it low-sugar, low-carb as can be.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Wine Tapioca (Sagu De Vinho)
This dessert is sure to please any wine lover. There's something about wine tapioca that just makes you feel fancy. Serve well chilled for a refreshing and indulgent treat.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Leprechaun Dust
Shake up some magic with Leprechaun Dust! Just a tablespoon of pistachio pudding mix and a splash of milk is all it takes to bring smiles and giggles to your kitchen.
Time: under 30 minutes
Mango Pudding Panama
Made with salt, vanilla ice cream, butter, milk, mangoes, sugar, cinnamon, allspice, all-purpose flour, baking soda
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chocolate Malted Creme Brulee
If you're gonna make creme brulee, you should do it right. Right means whole vanilla bean, an eggy custard, chocolate, and malt powder for an extra-decadent dessert.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: over 5 hours
Arroz con Leche (Mexican Rice Pudding)
A popular Mexican recipe, this rice pudding can be served warm or cold as a dessert, breakfast, or anytime sweet treat.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Easy Low Carb Chocolate Mousse
There's no reason that low carbers should deny themselves a sweet treat once in awhile. This low carb mousse is creamy and rich - and, of course, chocolately.
Time: 2-5 hours
Coconut Tapioca Pudding
This creamy tapioca pudding has a lightly spiced coconut-vanilla flavor. Eat plain or toss with some tropical fruits or berries.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Chocolate Banana Parfaits
Whipped topping plays a middle man in between these rich, chocolate pudding layers topped with bananas. Perfectly cozied up in these personalized servings to add a special...
Time: under 30 minutes
Blissful Bread Pudding
Made with French bread, dinner rolls, or croissant, milk, butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, salt
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Copycat Arnaud's Caramel Custard
Arnaud's is a famous New Orleans restaurant known for their Creole cuisine. This rich caramel custard is one of their most popular dessert items.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Almost Instant Chocolate Pudding
This dessert is leagues better than packaged pudding and almost as easy to make.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Bread Pudding With Brown Sugar, Raisins, And Apples
Made with egg whites, bread cubes, water, brown sugar, raisins, apples, cinnamon, vanilla extract
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Cafe Creme Brulee
As if creme brulee wasn't good enough already, we had to go and add some coffee. Coffee and Kahlua, to be exact. This dessert doesn't mess around.
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Banana Bread Pudding
Bread pudding made from cubed banana bread is served with a rich vanilla sauce.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Caramel Custard
Made with vanilla extract, sugar, water, eggs, egg yolks, milk
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Creme Brulee With White Chocolate Liqueur
Creme brulee is already a creamy and rich dessert, but add a splash of white chocolate liqueur and it reaches decadent status.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Lowfat Raspberry Creme Brulee
This lower fat creme brulee is made with fresh raspberries, non-fat milk, and egg substitute, and then baked to perfection.
Method: oven
Time: 2-5 hours
Chocolate Cream Pudding
Made with milk, corn starch, baking chocolate
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Slow Cooker Chocolate Rice Pudding
Take rice pudding to the next level. Cocoa powder gives this slow cooked recipe just the right amount of chocolate flavor and a pinch of cinnamon spices things up.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Ice Cream Pudding
Why haven't we been making pudding this way all along? Adding ice cream to to pudding yields an extra creamy and rich flavor.
Time: 1-2 hours
Pumpkin Mousse
Why settle for ordinary when you can dazzle your dessert repertoire? Our Pumpkin Mousse offers layers of smooth, spicy, pumpkin prowess with a snappy gingersnap finish.
Time: 2-5 hours
Party Peanut Butter Mousse
A fluffy cream cheese and peanut butter mousse topped with a rich chocolate ganache and chocolate shavings.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Black Sticky Rice Pudding (Kao Niow Dahm)
Black rice cooked with coconut milk makes a creamy rice pudding that's absolutely stunning with some bright strawberries or fresh mango slices alongside.
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Low-Carb Banana Cream Pudding
Craving something sweet but watching your carbs? Our low-carb banana cream pudding is pure indulgence without the guilt. Spoon, please!
Time: 1-2 hours
Frozen Chocolate Custard
Frozen chocolate custard is a dreamy, creamy, and rich dessert that is perfect for any chocolate lover.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Slow Cooker Creme Brulee
Creme brulee in the crock pot? It's actually a great way to cook the custardy dessert. Use a kitchen torch or oven broiler to create the signature sugar crust.
Method: crock pot
Time: over 5 hours
Irish Coffee Panna Cotta
Panna Cotta is a simple Italian classic. Kick yours up a notchy with an Irish flair by adding whiskey and a good cup of espresso.
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Mom's Home-Style Bread Pudding
Made with raisins, brown sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, salt, bread
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Arnaud's Creme Brulee
Made with egg yolks, sugar, heavy cream, vanilla extract, brown sugar
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Cheesecake Flan
Cream cheese lends a silky richness to the caramel-topped flan for a result that's downright delicious.
Method: oven, stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Bread Pudding With Lemon Sauce
Made with egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins, pecans, lemon peel, sugar, cornstarch, water
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Gluten Free Chocolate Pudding Mix
Chocolate pudding is one of America's favorite desserts. And now, with this gluten free chocolate pudding mix, everyone can enjoy this delicious treat.
Time: under 30 minutes
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