Do you have a great recipe for chocolate pudding?

Royal stopped making Cook and Serve Dark and Sweet Chocolate Pudding. It is a serious trauma for my family. For a while there my mom bought it by the case directly from Royal because they were only selling it in a few states (not hers) but now they have discontinued making the product altogether.

So, I thought I might try making pudding from scratch. Here are the parameters:

- It has to be a pudding that is cooked/boiled.
– We like a darker chocolate flavor than typical chocolate pudding, but not so dark that it lacks sweetness.
– I like it to be a thick consistency.
– I would like to know if you have ever tried using less fat and the recipe still worked. I used to use ¾ skim milk and ¼ cup 2% evaporated milk with pudding mix from a box and it was fine.

I did search some recipes, and I will probably try a recipe or two and adjust the cocoa powder up if it isn’t chocolately enough, but I thought I would bounce it off the collective first.