Heidi from the San Francisco food blog 101 Cookbooks made four batches of pudding before finally reaching comfort food nirvana, an unusual pudding made with coconut milk and (a Heidi signature) unusual spices.

She writes: "It took me almost thirty dollars in premium chocolate and four lackluster attempts to eventually come up with a chocolate pudding recipe special enough to share with you. I made not only bland, flat, and gelatinous puddings, but also runny and boring chocolate puddings before I finally turned out this keeper of a batch. It is deeply dark and impossibly chocolatety, rich, glossy, fragrant, and un-lumpy." ~ For Heidi's chocolate pudding tips and her recipe, check out Coconut Chocolate Pudding

For an everyday pudding, BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg recommends the Light 'n' Easy Chocolate Pudding from her food column Kitchen Parade.