Chocolate Pudding Recipe

I was just going through some old emails, and I came across this recipe for chocolate pudding that I "invented" a few years ago.  I'm just passing it along for anyone who might be interested in trying it.  It works best in the winter, though.

 

Chocolate Pudding

Mix up the Perfect Hot Chocolate* recipe with quite a bit of extra agave and extra coconut milk added, and put it in a pan to heat on the stove.  Heat it up a couple of different times and let a few people have some out of it. Listen to some of them complain that they don't like hot cocoa made out of almond milk.  Then a couple of hours later come in and decide you want some and turn the heat back on to medium.  Forget about it and drive around the corner to see a neighbor's t.v. that is for sale, with the car sputtering the whole way (it doesn't like the cold).  Go back out to the car and realize the sputtering wasn't because of the cold, but because it was out of gas.  Go tell the neighbor why you are still in her driveway and be grateful that she happens to have 1/2 gallon of gas in a container in her garage.  Feeling grateful that the car now starts, back out of the driveway and get stuck on the ice patch on the street in front of the driveway.  Wait till the neighbor comes out and laughs at you and have her help you and 3 little neighbor kids try to rock it out of its predicament.  Finally ask her if she has any sand (no), carpet (no), or--then she remembers that she has some long strips of shingles and puts them under the back tires.  The van backs up easily and you can now be on your way.  Go to the gas station closest to your house and realize that the gougers are charging 13 cents more per gallon than everyone else.  Go downtown and fill up the tank and come home at least 1/2 later (but it had to be more) to find the stuff boiling like crazy.  Turn it off, thinking you'll have to throw it out.  Serve it to the family later as pudding.   Smile  realizing that even the ones who didn't like it as cocoa are now eating it as pudding. 
  It worked for me!   
 
*This was a recipe that a friend developed using almond and coconut milk, and agave as a sweetener, but I don't know where it is at the moment.  It probably works just as well with any hot cocoa recipe, though, all things considered. :)