Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding and how to make it
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As we want to honor Veganuary, here is the vegan chocolate chia pudding and how to make it. This vegan chocolate chia pudding is creamy, chocolatey, and packed with nutrients.
Perfect for vegan desserts or a quick vegan sweet breakfast, this chocolate chia pudding is a delicious way to start your day or satisfy your sweet tooth. Made with chia seeds, plant-based milk, and cocoa powder, it’s rich in fiber and protein. Best of all, it’s easy to prepare the night before, so you can wake up to a ready-to-eat treat that’s both nutritious and satisfying.
Are you looking for easy-to-make vegan desserts? Try our Vegan Aquafaba Meringue Cookies, the Vegan Dulce de Leche, or the Vegan Almond Barfi
🕐 Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding and how to make it
- Blend water with cashews, cashew butter, cacao powder, prunes, vanilla extract, and cinnamon until they become creamy.
- Add the chia seeds and blend on a lower speed so to keep the chia seeds intact for a nicer visual dessert.
- Refrigerate 🧊overnight or for 4-6 hours if you can’t wait until the morning hours.
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Tips
- We used cashew butter🥔🧈 for this chia seed pudding. Cashew butter is creamier and has an underlying sweetness. Ideally use it raw and plain for its nutritional benefits.
- Don’t forget that cashew butter, as with any nut butter, is highly dense in nutrition as well as calories so consume in moderation.
- We added 🫐prunes for their tart and sweet features so additional sugar is not much needed. If you really want it sweeter, add a teaspoon of maple syrup. Cinnamon and vanilla extract are also added for the extra flavor.
- 🟤Unsweetened cocoa powder makes the dessert chocolatey without the fat level of chocolate. And of course, the amazing chia seeds for their extraordinary healthy and nutritional benefits: high fiber, manganese, magnesium, and phosphorus.
💁Serving Tips for the Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding
The dairy free dessert can be an interesting one-of-a-kind breakfast. Forget about oats, eggs or yogurt and try a dessert instead. As this does not have any sugar -only natural from the prunes- it is less sweet and lighter. You can add cacao nibs, berries, banana 🍌slices, blueberries🫐, or nuts 🥜for garnish to make it even prettier.
FAQs about the Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding
Can a different type of nut butter be used for the Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding?
You can substitute cashew butter for almond butter if you want. Most chia pudding recipes do not use nut butter but nut milks. Alternatively, you can blend the nut butter of your choice with your favorite nut milk. Cashew butter is smooth and blends well with the other ingredients, so this is how we made the recipe at WD.
Can coconut milk be a substitute for the Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding recipe?
Certainly. Coconut milk is smooth and blends well with the ingredients of the recipe. However, some don’t like the intense flavor and taste of the coconut. If you go for the Coconut milk, you can use light or full fat coconut milk from a can. If you do so, avoid adding nut butter as the recipe will become too rich. Coconut milk itself has a creaminess, and the body is perfect for the recipe.
What about adding a sweetener?
The recipe uses prunes for the sweet and tart flavor, so we don’t think that to add any additional sugar. If you want more, you can add maple syrup or agave nectar.
Honey is not vegan so we can’t use it for a vegan recipe.
Agave nectar comes from the agave plant, so it is a natural plant-based sweetener; it has more calories than the traditional sugar per serving so you are likely to use less. It is vegan as it does not contain animal ingredients.
Maple syrup is another favorite option as it is high in antioxidants, and we like the slightly bitter flavor too!
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So, are you convinced? We hope that the Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding and how to make it blog post will teach you something you don’t know. Just try it!
📖RECIPE CARD
Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups filtered water
- 1 tablespoon cashew butter
- ½ cup cashews
- 3 prunes pitted
- 2 tablespoons cacao powder
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Blend all the ingredients until creamy on medium to high speed. Once ready, add 6 tablespoons of chia seeds and blend on low speed for up to a 1 minute
- Avoid blending for a longer time so the chia seeds stay intact
- You can garnish with your favorite topping
