Slow Cooker Apple Butter Rice Pudding

Creamy, comforting rice pudding is jazzed up with apple butter & chunks of fresh apple in this easy to make Slow Cooker Apple Butter Rice Pudding...

Since a good, home cooked risotto happens to be my favorite savory adult comfort food, then a creamy rice pudding has to be my ultimate sweet comfort food. But rice pudding wasn't a comfort food that I came to love as a child. Now my mama made this great quick version of rice pudding with a little leftover rice mixed with melted margarine & sprinkled with cinnamon & sugar. 

But the first time that I tried an honest for goodness homemade rice pudding was when I baked up a batch myself a few years after moving out of my parents' house. Yes, making rice pudding from scratch equals adulting when you are in your earlier 20's. ;) And thus began my love affair with creamy, comforting rice pudding.

But the thing with most homemade rice pudding recipes is that they require both stove top cooking & oven baking and thus twice the dirty dishes. Is it worth the extra effort and dish washing? Yes! 

But I knew there had to be a better way to whip a homemade rice pudding recipe that I would love without all the extra steps. My solution? The slow cooker- duh! ;) 

You literally just dump everything in, mix, and let the slow cooker do the rest. Now I jazzed up the basic rice pudding with spicy apple butter and chunks of fresh apple for this Slow Cooker Apple Butter Rice Pudding I am sharing with you all today, but you could leave out the apple flavors for a classic creamy rice pudding (just increase the cinnamon to a 1/2 teaspoon)... 

Mexican Chocolate Rice Pudding

Not only is this 5 ingredient Mexican Chocolate Rice Pudding an easy to make cool & creamy treat, but it is practically guilt free as well...

As a Blue Diamond Tastemakers blogger, I am sharing with you all this recipe for an easy to make & healthier Mexican Chocolate Rice Pudding. This post is sponsored by Almond Breeze Almondmilk.

I have been a long time fan of a good homemade rice pudding. From my first creamy bite of it as a kid, I have been hooked. There is just something comforting about wrapping your hands around a warm bowl of it and digging in. And typically, rice pudding has been a sweet treat that I have always associated with the fall and winter... up until now. ;)

When I got my hands on a carton of Almond Breeze Almondmilk Chocolate and was asked to create an Easy as Breeze recipe for summer, rice pudding was not the first idea that popped into my head at all. In fact, I was thinking a creamy ice pop or maybe a smoothie... but then the wheels started turning. Why not give one of my favorite cold weather desserts a cool and creamy summertime makeover?

I combined together my love for rice pudding and Mexican chocolate in this easy to make stove top (no baking required!) 5 ingredient Mexican Chocolate Rice Pudding. In case you may not be familiar with Mexican chocolate, it is basically delicious chocolate with a hint of cinnamon and a little kick of heat from a pinch of cayenne pepper...