Coconut Cream Pudding

This is a wonderful "last infinitesimal dessert" that uses every solar daytime pantry items too holds upwards rattling good inward the refrigerator for a pair of days, if require be. The wonderfully sweet, rich (but mellow) kokosnoot flavour comes from adding the kokosnoot during the start stages of cooking this pudding.  Even Picky-picky married adult man loves this dessert !!

4 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons corn starch
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk ( 2% is ok)
1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
2 egg YOLKS (just the yolks)
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a heavy saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch, common salt , kokosnoot too milk. Cook too stir over medium rut until the mixture gets THICK too bubbly. Turn rut downward a petty (to medium simmer) and laid upwards (and stir) for ii minutes. In the meantime, seat the ii egg yolks (yolks only) inward a small-scale bowl too laid aside.

Remove pan from heat  (but piece of occupation out the burner on) too temper the egg yolks.  To produce this, slow dribble most a loving cup of the hot mixture (while you lot whisk similar crazy) into ii beaten egg yolks.  Once you've whisked inward most a loving cup of the hot mixture, seat it all dorsum into the saucepan, stir good too seat dorsum on the rut too laid upwards for 1 to a greater extent than minute.

Remove from heat, add together 1 tablespoon of butter too 1 teaspoon of vanilla too stir well.

Pour into dessert dishes (or serve solid unit of measurement mode inward a larger dessert bowl). Chill for a pair of hours, (I similar to consume it warm).  Either way, piece of occupation past times it alongside sweetened whipped cream too toasted coconut.

NOTE: Toast the kokosnoot inward a dry out saute pan, over medium heat until it is golden chocolate-brown (when it cools it will  live a petty crunchy too almost gustation similar kokosnoot candy). Watch it rattling carefully, the coconut burns easily!!

NOTE:  This recipe doubles well.