Tapioca Pudding with Homemade Whipped Cream Recipe
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Tapioca Pudding with Homemade Whipped Cream
September 4, 2014 by meggan 11 Comments
Full confession: I LOVE Tapioca Pudding. No one ever requests this for a birthday meal, and 50% of the people I know don’t even like it. But to me, those small beads swimming in a sea of vanilla topped with light and airy homemade whipped cream is nothing short of heavenly. I only ever order it at family style restaurants following a fish fry, and that’s a shame since there are no proper fish fries in California. Rather than continue my suffering, I decided to just make some homemade Tapioca Pudding. It was better than I remembered and my new favorite dessert.
The first thing you NEED TO KNOW is that Tapioca needs to soak overnight. I…
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