Name: Budino
Yield: Serves 8 (4-ounce portions)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon (200 g) sugar; 6 tablespoons (85 g) butter, softened; 8 egg yolks; 2½ cups (480 ml) heavy cream, divided; 8 ounces plus 1 ounce (225 g) dark chocolate (reserve the 1 ounce for garnish); 8 ounces (225 g) milk chocolate; Pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon powdered sugar; 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Kahlúa

Preparation info

Serves
8
( 4 ounce portions)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Barbuto Cookbook

By Jonathan Waxman

Published 2020

About

Budino is the most popular of Barbuto’s dessert offerings. It is the perfect ending to a Barbuto meal: rich and delicate at the same time. Budino is simply “pudding” in Italian. The puddings of my youth came from a box, but I loved them just the same. This decadent big brother has all the fixings: rich chocolate, sugar, cream, and butter—a far more advanced version of the boxed one my mom served in the mid-1950s.

There is a version of this in my previous book