Samoa Pudding Parfaits. Made With Homemade Chocolate, homemade Coconut Pudding, toasted coconut and chocolate coconut cookies these parfaits are the perfect dessert parfait!
In a large saucepan combine the milk, cocoa powder, sugar, corn starch, salt, egg, and egg yolk together over medium heat. Whisk continuously while cooking until the mixture has thickened.Once the mixture has started to bubble cook for 1-2 minutes and the pudding is done cooking.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla extract.
Pour pudding into a glass bowl and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
How to Make Coconut Pudding
In a large saucepan combine the milk, sugar, corn starch, salt, egg, and egg yolk together over medium heat. Whisk continuously while cooking until the mixture has thickened.Once the mixture has started to bubble cook for 1-2 minutes and the pudding is done cooking.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter and coconut and vanilla extracts.
Pour the pudding into a bowl and place in in the fridge. Allow the coconut pudding to cool for 30 minutes.
While the pudding is cooling toast the coconut.
How to Toast Coconut
Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Place your coconut in a baking pan that has sides.
Stir the coconut ever few minutes until golden brown, this should take about 5 – 10 minutes.
Remove the coconut from the oven.
How to Assemble Samoa Pudding Parfaits
When both puddings are cooled get your serving dishes or mason jars. If you want to store the parfaits for later using a mason jar is perfect because they have the lids.
Place the 1/4 cup of chocolate pudding in the bottom of each mason jar. Then a bunch of the crumbled cookies into each mission jar or serving dish. Top the cookie crumbles with 1/4 cup of the coconut pudding.
Then top with the toasted coconut and add a cookie to the top of each parfait.Drizzle with Caramel and chocolate syrup if desired.