Today’s sugar free vanilla pudding recipe is soy-free, gluten-free, coconut-free, egg-free, low-calorie, and it can of course also be sugar-free. The finished pudding reminds me very much of JELL-O vanilla pudding!
Serve it in fancy glasses for an easy dessert, or layer it in a parfait.
Above, sugar free vanilla pudding topped with fresh strawberries and my Homemade Reddi-Wip Whipped Cream.
Sugar Free Vanilla Pudding
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Ingredients
- 2 cups milk of choice
- scant 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup more milk of choice mixed with 3 tbsp cornstarch (23g cornstarch)
- 3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp uncut stevia (OR 1/4 cup sugar)
- optional 2 tsp buttery spread
Instructions
Sugar Free Vanilla Pudding Recipe: Heat the 2 cups milk in a saucepan. Meanwhile, whisk cornstarch and the 1/2 cup milk until dissolved. When milk is warm, add cornstarch mixture and bring to a boil. Once boiling, stir constantly about 3 minutes. Lower to simmer and simmer a few minutes. Turn off heat. Stir in the remaining ingredients, then let cool completely. Refrigerate a few hours, uncovered, where it will get much thicker.
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Lisa says
Thank you for going back to the old format. It’s easier to follow. I really enjoy your recipes. I make a different oatmeal almost everyday.
Laura says
This pudding is outstanding! I have been looking for a non-dairy pudding. How would this work with adding pumpkin? When would you add it, at the end with the sugar?
Chocolate Covered Katie says
I’m not sure… but I like your idea! If you try it, be sure to report back! You might also possibly try subbing some of the milk for pumpkin? Possibly? Sounds like a fun experiment in any case.
Ann says
This pudding could be used in a Cream Puff Chocolate Eclair Cake recipe! (I’m talking about this one http://amandascookin.com/2013/06/cream-puff-chocolate-eclair-cake.html , which I made because I’m bad. ) That cake was good beyond human words, so good that I knew I had to healthify it somehow. Luckily, the ingredients are pretty simple and can be swapped with some tweaking for vegan options! The pastry can be made with flax eggs, Earth Balance or coconut oil, and 1/4 cup coconut flour for low carb; the chocolate filling can be made with Earth Balance or coconut oil, vegan chocolate, and your sugar-free powdered sugar. The pudding layer can be made with vegan cream cheese and this pudding recipe. The cool whip layer can simply be made with your coconut cool whip! I’ll report back when I get the chance to experiment!
Chrissy says
This sounds awesome, and makes me wish there was a chocolate version for my poor mum, who is diabetic and a chocoholic. (She even has a sign that says “Chocolate is the answer, I don’t care what the question is!”)
Also, I wonder what would happen if you froze the pudding mixture? Would it be like a healthy Jell-O pudding pop?
Unofficial CCK Helper says
Might be icy. But if you try, definitely report back!
Adrienne says
Last night I wanted this recipe. I also wanted chocolate. So I added 1/4 cup cocoa powder and 1/2 tsp instant coffee (so that the coffee would bring out the rich depth of the chocolate). It was amazeballs!! Highly recommend.
Also…. topping it with some date salted caramel sauce is highly recommended. Just saying…..
Julia says
Hey Katie!
I was wondering, but do all types of milk work?
Thanks ! 🙂
Peekaboo says
Hi Katie,
I came across your blog while searching for a simple sugar free vanilla pudding.And I got exactly what I wanted and a huge collection of healthy desserts..I have a big sweet tooth and your blog is a blessing for people like me who have genetic links to Diabetes.Thank you sooo much..
Kristine says
Amazing recipe! I used almond milk and added 3 tbsp of cocoa. Yum!
jon says
this isn’t sugar free. milk has sugar
Unofficial CCK Helper says
This is a dairy-free blog, and unsweetened nondairy milk is in fact sugar free.
Bonnie says
Hi! I really enjoyed your chocolate pudding and would like to try this one, but I keep scorching the milk when I try to bring it to a boil. How do you bring yours to a boil without scorching?
Carter says
I made this using another sites recipe that I altered because I’m trying not to use sugar or dairy (a challenging but fun weekend of baking)
I used almond milk, with 1.5 teaspoons of stevia, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Everything else was equal. It was horrible. A great texture just tasted nasty. I think it’s a combination of replacing dairy and sugar.
When you make this what milk besides dairy do u think works best?
lina says
Oh dear! I couldn’t understand what the fuss about the comments was as I was totally into the recipe and the yumminess of it. I cannot believe that people actually complain about having to click X amount of times to get to a FREE AND AMAZING recipe!!!! OMG so sorry for you honey that you have to change things up . And I am a 20+tabs open at once all recipe related sites and a mom of a young child.
I thought to give me 2 cents in, thank you so much for creating a lovely blog with yummy recipes and you seem like a lovely person who really just loves good and healthy foods. I will be along with (I hope) many others who will gladly click on as many pages as you see fit and benefit from your recipe testing and posting. I am just grateful that I have food porn lol, and recipes that work.
I hope to get your book soon too! Much love.
Aaron says
Okay so I am a 15 year old teenage boy with extreme limits in my diet because I’m picky. For starters I am vegan and I usually don’t bother making breakfast because my family isn’t vegan so I have trouble finding breakfast options. But I made this one night and put it in the fridge and ate it for breakfast the next morning. It was so good, I wasn’t expecting such a good flavor and it is extremely low in calories . Since I watch my weight but I am still a kid I sometimes get upset because I feel restricted from a lot of sweeter foods but thanks to you, Katie, I now have a versatile pudding that I can add just about any flavor to. ?
Rae says
This pudding was so gross that I am giving chocolatecoveredkatie a break for awhile. Note that this comment is coming from a gourmet cook from a house full of dessert bakers and a professional chef…this was the clumpiest, most powdery-textured, sad tasting dessert that I have ever made. So sad in fact that we had to throw it all away in the end because no one could be convinced to eat it. I tried some variations after, adding more sweetness, some fruit, more vanilla etc…but this recipe cannot be saved.
Jason Sanford says
I would guess it’s either the type of milk you used or that an ingredient was either bad or accidentally left out (which I’ve done before). I’ve made this recipe multiple times and it has always turned out well. So maybe worth trying again!
Tom Durrant says
Cornstarch is starch. Starch is two sugars that come apart when an enzyme in you bod comes in contact.
Julie says
Do you have Weight watcher points for all your recipes? I just started and am always looking for low point recipes.. I use monkfruit sweetener instead of stevia.. same as sugar. So the vanilla pudding. I’d like to make it chocolate pudding. I can add unsweetened cocoa but would probably want to sweeten it up a little. I can add monkfruit to it which wouldn’t add any points to the recipe from the cocoa or the monkfruit just not sure of ratio? What do you think? Thanks!
CCK Media Team says
Hi yes, most of Katie’s recipes have a nutrition link with the WW points included 🙂
Here is a chocolate version: https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/healthy-chocolate-pudding-recipe/
Linda says
I just made this. I didn’t have stevia so I checked the conversion for sweet n low. The conversion was 6 packs for a 1/4 cup of sugar. I was worried it might be a little sweet. I only added 4 packs and figured I would taste after I put everything in. Then I could add the other 2 packs if needed. I didn’t it was perfect. Love the recipe. Thank you !!!!
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