Chocolate Pudding Pie – with a light and flaky pie crust.
It will be love at first bite.
♥ And second bite… and third bite… and fourth bite…
Suddenly the entire pie is gone, and there’s no one to blame but you. And by you, I mean me. Many of my recipes are created with specific friends or family members in mind, while I make up others because I think they’ll be fun to photograph or post on the blog. But this chocolate pudding pie recipe was created for no other reason than Katie being hungry.
Hungry, and craving chocolate.
Consider this chocolate pudding pie the tofu-free alternative to my Ultimate Chocolate Fudge Pie (still one of the blog’s most popular recipes with readers). It’s a perfect recipe for all kinds of allergies or special diets—you can adapt the recipe to be soy-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, nut-free, coconut-free, dairy-free, wheat-free, and egg-free.
Just… not chocolate-free!
No, never.
Homemade Chocolate Pudding Pie
Adapted from Healthy Chocolate Pudding
Homemade Chocolate Pudding Pie
Ingredients
- 2 cups milk of choice OR canned coconut milk
- heaping 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup Dutch cocoa powder
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1/3 cup sugar, pure maple syrup, or honey
- 1/2 cup milk of choice + 3 tbsp cornstarch (such as Rapunzel non-GMO) – Readers have also had success with arrowroot
- 4 oz chocolate chips or broken-up bar, optional
- 3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
Crust Recipe:
1 1/2 cups ww pastry or all-purpose flour (A reader reported success with almond flour, but I have not tried it. Many readers have said gf all-purpose flour will work.)
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup granulated sugar of choice or xylitol
1/2 cup vegetable oil (80g)
2-4 tbsp water (I used 3)
Crust recipe: Preheat oven to 200 F. Grease a 9-inch pie pan. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. Add the oil and stir. Add water until it just sticks together but is not gummy. Press dough evenly into the pan. Place crust in the oven, and immediately increase the temperature to 350 F. (This crust will rise, so either use pie weights during baking or just press the pie crust down after it bakes.) Bake 15 minutes, then let cool.
Filling: Heat the 2 cups milk of choice in a saucepan with the salt, cocoa powder, and the sweetener. Meanwhile, whisk your cornstarch and the 1/2 cup milk in a small dish until fully dissolved. When the 2 cups milk are warm, add the cornstarch mixture. Bring to a boil. Once boiling, stir constantly for 2 minutes. Lower to a simmer for an additional minute, then turn the heat off. Once heat is off, stir in the vanilla extract and broken-up chocolate until the chocolate melts. Pour pudding into the pie crust, then transfer to the fridge to thicken and set at least 8 hours. It gets thicker the longer it sits, and by the next day it should be slice-able. *Note: I’ve only tried this recipe with Dutch cocoa powder so can’t vouch for the taste if regular unsweetened cocoa powder is used in its place. But you are always free to experiment. If you want a deeper pie than the one in the photos, I would try scaling all of the ingredients up and adding a little extra cornstarch. Be sure to report back if you experiment!
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haha I tried it, I used cacao instead of cocoa and I also used cane sugar 🙂
my family loved it , they could not believe it’s vegan! 🙂 thank you Katie!
I love your blog! I am sadly allergic to eggs and milk, so this is the perfect place for me to get recipes that work and taste delicious 🙂
Substitutions for the pudding: almond milk in place of coconut milk
honey in place of sugar (for the pudding, not the crust)
unsweetened cocoa powder in place of Dutched cocoa
I lowered the honey to 1/4c and used 1/4c less almond milk, since honey is liquid. I also only had 3.5 oz of 70% chocolate.
Substitutions for the crust: brown sugar in place of granulated sugar
Namaste gf flour in place of wheat flour
coconut oil in place of vegetable oil
The pudding thickened up quite nicely. It was the best chocolate silk pie I have ever made.
How did your crust turn out with the GF flour?
I’ve just made this pie last night and it is amazing! The recipe is perfect, I didn’t have to alter a thing! Will definitely be making this again and trying some of your other recipes!
Thank you Katie for sharing your wonderful recipes. I haven’t made vegan chocolate pudding in years and I was a little nervous but tonight I followed your recipe and yay it’s yummy and wonderful!!! 🙂 Beautiful blog, beautiful wonderful. I’d love to connect on Twitter. I’m following you and I’d love it if you’d follow me back. My username is notperfume.
This has become our families all time favorite recipe. We are in love! I have also used almond flour for the crust and it came out great.
I make this as a pudding frequently and will try it as fudgsicles and let you know. I have either this or the avo chocolate mousse a LOT!!
I made this today with some slight modifications, I made it paleo using almond flour for the crust and coconut sugar for the sweetener. I also used agar agar flakes to thicken. Turned out super yummy and creamy and oh my. I also used canned coconut milk. Turned out really tasty, only had to refrigerate for 5 hours or so.
Do you think I can make the filling today and add it to the crust tomorrow? I have to transport it on bike tomorrow so I can’t put the whole pie together today. I just don’t want it to get too hard in the tupper that I can’t add it to the pie crust
This was a huge success!!! It was gone before you could blink an eye.
Hi, this recipe came out absolutely delicious! Even hubby loved it & he avoids anything vegan or good for you, lol! Followed your recipe exactly, but it didn’t come out quite firm enough.
I think it may be the extra 100 ml almond milk I added to the 400 ml coconut milk to make 2 cups (CAD 250 ml = 1 cup).
I think US & CAD measurements are a little different is that maybe why?
Even overnight it didn’t firm up at all. Next time will use just the coconut milk, & I’m sure it will come out perfect. PS I am now totally addicted to your blog & can’t wait to try all your other amazing recipes!
Thanks so much Katie!
Bee Warren
Ummm… yum. ? this pie tastes exactly like a sugar-laiden, unhealthy fat, basically bakery quality pie. And I used stevia! I’m usually sensitive to stevia and chocolate together but this was great! Thanks
You made it sound so good! I need to try this one 🙂
Btw, I just rated this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I used arrowroot powder instead of starch and it became very thick! I doubled the recipe and made two pies. I added collagen powder to make it healthy – although it’s already pretty healthy with just stevia powder! Thank you for this
AMAZING! Best dessert I’ve ever made. I was dreaming of creamy chocolate pie and this was perfection. I used maple syrup to sweeten and I made a graham cracker crust
Thank you thank you thank you!
what is the difference between dutch cocoa powder vs unsweetened cocoa powder? I used Hersheys Special Dark powder and it turned out great!
Absolutely the best vegan chocolate pie I’ve ever made. The coconut milk made it really nice and rich. It was a hit with everyone who ate a slice. Even my husband the carnivore, who turns his nose up at most things vegan, loved it. Can’t wait to make it again.
This made us so happy to read!