Chocolate Budino with Candied Walnuts Recipe | Epicurious

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Glass bowl filled with chocolate pudding and candied walnuts topped with flaky sea salt.

Photo by Alex Lau

This deliciously wobbly, very special pudding isn’t thickened with cornstarch or gelatin. Instead, it’s made with chocolate, milk, cream, and eggs and spiked with olive oil and salt, which complement the bittersweet and fruity flavors of the chocolate. To die for!

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