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Chocolate-Cashew Chia Pudding

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This chia pudding is delicious on its own—and even better when layered with maple yogurt as a parfait. Leftover maple yogurt can be repurposed for breakfast and topped with fruit and granola. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure kind of dessert. This recipe is part of the 2019 Feel Good Food Plan, our ten-day plan for starting the year off right.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    4–6 servings

Ingredients

Chia Pudding

7

oz. Medjool dates (about 13), pitted

3

cups cashew milk

⅔

cup raw cashews

3

Tbsp. cocoa powder

2

tsp. vanilla extract

1½

tsp. kosher salt

1

tsp. ground cinnamon

½

cup white chia seeds

Maple Yogurt and Assembly

2

cups whole-milk or coconut yogurt

¼

cup pure maple syrup, plus more for serving

Flaky sea salt

Ground cinnamon (for serving)

Preparation

  1. Chia Pudding

    Step 1

    Blend dates, cashew milk, cashews, cocoa powder, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon in a blender on high speed until very smooth, about 1 minute. Transfer date milk to a quart-size jar or resealable container. Stir in chia seeds. Cover and chill at least 6 hours.

    Step 2

    Do Ahead: Chia pudding can be made 5 days ahead. Keep chilled.

  2. Maple Yogurt and Assembly

    Step 3

    Stir yogurt and ¼ cup maple syrup in a medium bowl. Transfer to a quart-size jar or resealable container (or reserve yogurt container and use that!).

    Step 4

    To serve, alternate layering a few spoonfuls of chia pudding and maple yogurt in a small ramekin or 8-oz. glass. Drizzle with maple syrup and sprinkle with sea salt. Dust with cinnamon.

    Step 5

    Do Ahead: Maple yogurt can be made 5 days ahead. Chill.

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  • This has turned out to be one of my families, favorite desserts. We’ve had it as parfaits, alone as a pudding, and even as a pie! All of them were exceptionally delicious.

    • Joe T

    • Minneapolis, Minnesota

    • 4/19/2024

  • I’m glad I gave this recipe a try! I’ve made a lot of disappointing chia puddings in the past. This one is incredible, both flavor and texture. It tastes even better with the yogurt, I will be making this regularly. I did reduce the amount of dates, salt, and maple syrup in the yogurt.

    • Anonymous

    • New York

    • 1/2/2022

  • Fabulous for a dessert or brunch. I first followed recipe as is and was far too salty. I then used 1/3 the salt and it was perfect. I had only black chia seeds and it was fine. A big hit for all!

    • Sally

    • Los Angeles

    • 9/11/2021

  • Thank you so much! it was delicious. I'll make this over and over.

    • Soos

    • Chesterfield, MO

    • 8/8/2021

  • The kind of dessert you can eat every night of the week and not feel too bad about indulging

    • Anonymous

    • 10/7/2020

  • LOVE this recipe. The combo with yogurt is SO GOOD. The only thing i'd change is, making this half recipe. I live alone and could not finish the whole recipe in 4-5 days.

    • Anonymous

    • San Francisco

    • 8/24/2020

  • I will make this pudding again today but with less salt. Otherwise - tasty and rich flavor, but totally agree that salt should be reduced. I made it without yogurt, just the chocolaty part. Nice and rich morning treat.

    • lolitapu

    • Latvia, Riga

    • 8/3/2020