Chocolate Chia Pudding Recipe

Chocolate chia pudding in a glass, topped with cream and blueberries.

5 from 69 votes

Chocolate Chia Pudding Recipe

This Healthy Chocolate Chia Pudding is sure to satiate your chocolate cravings...it's both decadent and perfectly sweet with no refined sugar. This delicious vegan chia pudding recipe is easy to make with just 5 ingredients!

Prep Time5

Time to thicken1

Total Time1 5

Course: Breakfast & Brunch, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Diet: Gluten Free, Vegan

Servings: servings

Calories: 156kcal

Author: Debra Klein

Equipment

Ingredients

2 cups unsweetened almond milk
2 Tablespoons cacao powder
2 Tablespoons maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup chia seeds

Instructions

Place almond milk, maple syrup, vanilla and cacao powder in a bowl or tall measuring cup. The cacao will resist mixing into the liquid so you'll have to use some elbow grease to mix until well incorporated. For best results, use an immersion blender.
Mix chia seeds into milk mixture. Wait 2-3 minutes and mix again, making sure to dig to the bottom of the bowl to get all seeds mixed into the liquid.
After 5 minutes, stir again. Chia pudding will have begun to thicken and will continue to gel as the seeds absorb more liquid.
Cover well and place in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour or overnight. Stir well before serving.

Notes

Cacao powder: Even though it seems like a dry ingredient, raw cacao powder or cocoa powder contains a fair amount of fat and will sit on top of the cold milk, immediately forming clumps, and will not be easy to incorporate into the liquid. Use an immersion blender to quickly resolve this issue. Otherwise, use a whisk and continue to vigorously stir until it looks like chocolate milk and the clumps have disappeared.

Hard clumps of chia seeds: Chia seeds need to be dispersed evenly into the liquid and then mixed a couple times during the first 5 minutes to avoid clumping. I like to use a glass container to mix the chia pudding in so I can see if the chia seeds have sunk to the bottom. If this happens to you, it's OK....use an immersion blender to break up the hard clumps on the bottom and continue. It's very time consuming to break up those clumps by hand, but you can do it with a fork.

Alternate recipe for chocolate chia pudding using raw cashews and dates:

Ingredients: 1 cup cashews, soaked in boiling water for 15 minutes, 3 cups water, 6 medjool dates, pitted and roughly chopped, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ¼ cup raw cacao powder, ¼ teaspoon sea salt, ½ cup chia seeds.

Directions: Drain cashews and place in blender with water, dates, cacao powder and salt. Puree until smooth. Pour into bowl with chia seeds and mix well. Wait 5 minutes and use a fork to mix again. Wait 15 minutes and mix again. Cover and refrigerate.

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