I have some fun facts about Bird's custard since it originally came from the city I was born, Birmingham. The creator Alfred Bird wanted to make an egg free custard for his wife who was allergic to eggs. The old factory has since been converted and is now full of independent shops, restaurants, pop ups, and studios, but is still called "the custard factory".

I was a bit surprised when the "frames not analyzed for stabilization" notification popped up (13:57). I thought it was something to do with my computer😆

We certainly never had the custard made with strawberry milk it was just food colouring. You should do a whole series of old British school desserts, you’ll be amazed 😂😅

Even though I'm an American, my favorite dessert growing up was something my grandmother made called "puddin' and sauce". The 'pudding' part is a yellow cake made with one egg and self rising flour and the 'sauce' part is a chocolate pudding-like sauce or chocolate gravy that was served over the top of a piece of the cake. I still make it fairly often. Edit to include cake recipe as I have it: Oven at 350 degrees, grease and flour a cake pan. In a bowl, mix 1/3 cup oil, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup self-rising flour, and enough milk to make a batter. Pour into prepared pan, bake in oven until toothpick comes out clean or middle top springs back when touched. Any chocolate gravy recipe will do for a topping, also lemon curd or jam and whipped cream. Depending on the ingredients I have on hand, I make chocolate gravy with cocoa powder, sugar, cornstarch or flour, water or milk, pinch of salt. Cook until thick stirring constantly, remove from heat add some vanilla or almond extract and a bit of butter. Serve it warm over the cake.

The pink custard takes me back to my school dinners as a child in England. We were convinced it tasted like strawberry but looking back I don’t think it did 😂 thank you for my little trip down memory lane, as kids we lived for pink custard day!!

Hi emmy! Lovely video as always. I believe there may be an editing mistake starting at 13:56. It is a blue bar saying “New Frames Need analyzing, click analyze” and it lasts for about 6-10 seconds. I haven’t seen any comments on it so maybe it’s just me though!

If you ask for a chocolate concrete in the mid west you'll get a thick custard based ice cream milkshake that is incredibly rich I can only eat a small one and I have quite a sweet tooth. Fun video, gonna have to try this sometime.

I grew up eating chocolate crunch, in primary school it was served as a dessert with custard and in highschool it was served without custard as a morning snack, along with shortbread biscuits etc, but I most remember it being served with green mint custard, not pink strawberry. So I guess even in the UK there's regional variations. Definitely not healthy to be eaten everyday but they were a comforting constant when dealing with the craziness of high school and all the changes that happen along with it. Chocolate crunch was the only thing that stayed the same, day in day out 💚

Just wanted to thank you for always putting your videos in the chapter sections! A lot of KZfaqrs don’t do it & I just wanted you to know I & I’m sure many of us really appreciate the extra effort you put in to do that. Thank you for all the amazing wholesome content ❤

Tragically we had chocolate custard at our school rather than pink (and it was a lot thicker), I always assumed the crunch was shortbread and have lamented at never finding a shortbread with the right texture, so I am very grateful to find out how I might recreate that 2002 vibe!

Anyone else notice how Emmy does this? First bite: “Mmm? 🤔” Second Bite: “Mmhmm. 🤨” “Yeah. 🙂”

I work in a nursing home as a Dietary Aide, as such I get to make all the desserts. The little tehehe you made when mixing with your hands is TOTALLY me at work when cooking 🥰 I love desserts lol and I love watching your channel, your enthusiasm is incomparable ❤

At 13:57 there's a blue bar with editing text on it- also, Beanz!

Emmy has a way of being authentically whimsical and simultaneously very practical and informative. It is a great combination. Love the lighting and atmosphere. 😌✨ Also agree that there are so many reasons to love parchment paper. It is so helpful in so many ways - I never like to be without it in the kitchen.

Hi Emmy! Idk if you noticed it but around 14:04 there are these pop ups from maybe editing about new frames needing analyzing. And it flashes for a few seconds. But amazing fun video as always!

Not just the 70’s and 80’s! We had this in primary school when I was there in the early 2000’s! I will say we never had strawberry flavoured custard with it though, it was just vanilla dyed pink for reasons unknown…😅

Britain does have a specific dessert called 'pudding'. It's a sort of cake which is either steamed or boiled, often in a cloth bag. There are many variations on this idea, the most common of which is probably the Christmas pudding. The amusingly-named Spotted Dick is made in a similar manner. But yes, we also use 'pudding' as a generic word that means 'dessert'.

If you're going to start the stroll through uk primary school puds would definitely do aussie crunch, treacle sponge and school cake too. But the ultimate is butterscotch tart 😍 was always served with a blob of stabilised cream on top and chocolate vermicelli sprinkles. Pure nostalgia!

I’m 28 and I remember looking forward to this in school omg. Back in 2000 my mum told me to get the recipe, I begged one of the lunch ladies for the recipe for weeks and she finally wrote it down for me. I still have that same classic recipe from school. Also in the original school recipes they use margarine and not butter specifically ‘stork’ brand and it tastes better than butter imo.

I grew up in the 70s with this dessert. It is actually nicknamed chocolate concrete because it used to be absolutely hard and difficult to break apart which is where the concrete idea came in. The custard was essential because otherwise any attempt to break it up with sand the dish flying across the room! The custard helped to soften it. Originally the custard was plain yellow but some places made it pink. I guess the softer version is a modernised version of this desert. Glad you learned to make it it has always been a UK favourite exclamation mark

i’m not from the uk but my dad is originally from wales and every so often he makes a vanilla cake with white icing and sprinkles and calls it old school cake and that is super delicious

Omg you finally made it 😍 this made me so happy! Chocolate crunch and pink custard was my favourite school pudding growing up. I have since made this but the recipe I used called for an egg to be added to the mixture also, and I added the sugar and water sprinkled on top prior to baking. The only major difference here is the custard and I'm sorry Em but for that truly authentic experience 🥰 you have to use a packet mix for raspberry blamange. It's like a set custard dessert but you just use it hot instead, the raspberry flavour is subtle but goes much better with the Chocolate. This video made my heart so happy 😊 ❤️ really enjoyed watching it!

This was a classic at my school. Suprisingly it was really nice as a kid. Tbh I would still eat it now if I don't have enough money to make brownies

I haven't heard of Chocolate Concrete but 'school cake' was my favourite in school in England (think it was UK-wide?) and is something many generations know and love. Vanilla cake, white icing, and sprinkles. It's delicious! Sometimes served with custard too.

7:14!!!! Such a great trick for pressing the crumb mixture flat and beautiful! I love learning tips and tricks for cooking and the kitchen area in general. Thanks very much Emmy ! After all these years you still come up with new things to share that are actually possible in a common household. Love you and your channel ‼️❣️❣️

Thanks to whoever suggested this to Emmy - was a real stroll down memory lane. I remember the smell of this permeating the canteen and asking the dinner lady to give me the custard skin (to the disgust of many friends). ❤

Emmy, as an American who's married to a Brit there is no end to the interesting and unexpected differences in the different terms we have for the same things. I just end up using the British versions 🤣

I remember having this at school but we had it with mint custard. It was delicious. In fact all the puddings I had at school were really good. Look up mint custard because it was epic!! I’m from the UK and was at school in the ‘70-‘80s btw😀

i adore the sheer accidental chaos of this video, from the chapters having been slightly off to the unanalyzed frames, not to mention the food looks really good..... 10/10 video but like genuinely

I use salted butter in everything instead of unsalted butter. I just omit any additional salt that might be in a recipe. I feel like things taste better with salted butter the unsalted. I understand why people say not to, because you want ro control the level of salt in a recipe, but I think chocolate chip cookies taste better with salted butter and also so many other things.

Have you ever tried the sweet and tasty Canadian dessert called Nanaimo bars? A childhood staple up here in the Great White North. 🇨🇦❄️

I'm 31 and born in the UK, this is so nostalgic! Thank you Emmy❤️

In my school we had these with banana custard and between that and strawberry, the banana paired much better in flavour. So good. Also we had a ‘white chocolate’ version of this in the same way you have a blondie and a brownie. Instead of cocoa powder it was just vanilla and milk powder, and some white chocolate chips strewn in. The white chocolate chips would stay as whole chips instead of melting all the way through like a cookie and that helped give it that firm texture.

A school lunch favourite. Served with pink custard, mint custard or just enjoyed on its own. ❤️❤️ A friend still blames this on weight gain, despite the fact we left school 35 years ago. Another special is chocolate toothpaste cake! 🤣🤣

If you want to bake more chocolate base cake, you should bake swedish stickycake(kladdkaka). One of first thing you learn how to bake in Sweden and it is so good! If you want a recipe let me now☺️

I LOVE “sandy” foods, I definitely have to try!

I grew up eating this at primary school in the UK, it was so rock hard even with custard you'd struggle to break it up with all the strength you had!

Yes!! I used to eat this all the time at school, though this was in the early-mid 2000s/2010s. My mum was actually a dinner-lady at my school so we used to eat it at home a lot, too (it came in these big bags, pre-mixed, that my mum would bring home from work.) Haven't had it in many years but it was always one of my favourites 🥰 I hated custard as a kid, so I always ate it plain, but I think I just missed the pink custard craze 😅ours was just plain yellow. We also used to have these rice krispie cakes made with golden syrup and chocolate at my school. No idea if they were common in other places, but they were delicious. Chocolate toothpaste cake too, though the name always put me off of trying it!

I loved pink custard in primary school, they served it every friday with angel cake which is pink, yellow and white. I recently found out that Ambrosia sells tins of pink custard and it made me instantly nostalgic as soon as it touched my tongue 😍

I used to love chocolate crunch at school and I've made it at home many times, yummy simple treat. Nice to see you make it 💜

gosh i miss chocolate concrete! i remember how difficult it was to bite into on the edges then inside it was so crumbly and soft, i will have to try this recipe, also your voice is so relaxing!

Chocolate concrete! I live close to Birmingham, UK and it's kind of a stereotype that we eat a lot ofchocolate concrete. We used to have this in school dinners, when it was served with green, mint flavoured custard. It was one of the very few items I could eat and enjoy from school dinners!

8:38 I remember having to roll out some dough, but surprisingly not having a rolling pin in the house. I looked around the kitchen and saw our wooden paper towel holder. It has a detachable thick wooden post that held the towels to the base. I floured it up and it worked beautifully. I never did buy a rolling pin.

I remember our dinner ladies making a chocolate sponge with pink custard, not concrete! Looks tasty though and takes me back (some considerable time 😉)

I'm from the UK, and I've never seen chocolate concrete, feel like I've missed out! I've not seen pink custard since my primary school days in the 80s, we used to have it over a vanilla sponge cake, that was baked in a large tray, with strawberry jam and desiccated coconut on top. I think it was just regular custard, dyed pink!

Emmy, please try the Lord Wooten Pie. It's a pie that Was created in England during the WW2 to help ppl make dishes using the simple rations. So it's a love/hate pie relation. I think you'll like it.

Wow I’ve not seen this since I was a kid this is such a nostalgia trip! I used to love chocolate concrete! was one of my favourite puddings

Thank you for the trip down memory lane. My school used to often do a sponge pudding (like a square from a tray bake) with chocolate custard and that was the food of heroes 💪🏼

Fascinating! It's so simple i never would have thought that would be nice... Seems like something a child would attempt whilst trying to learn how to bake but you make it look so professional!

I'm really surprised it held together because the mixture was so dry compared to a regular cake or brownie batter. Yummy!

I know this sounds funny, but that pink sauce reminds me of the Telly Tubbies kids show. They ate Tubby custard which was a pink custard. Lol maybe the creators were thinking back to thier school days.

I think its so cute that Emmy is using an oyster shucking knife to notch the parchment. Ultimate utility.

Ooh Earl Grey goes great with the chocolate concrete the bergamot really highlights the coco, also when I knew I was having this at School I would bring some finely chopped coconut to put on it, yes I was the foody kid at School people made fun of me till they tried it and where amazed at how it tasted, thank you for taking me down memory lane im going to go make some of this right now with a dusting of coconut sugar it tastes great anyone who reads this let me know if you tried it

when i was in primary school i used to eat my chocolate concrete thingy with a glass of milk and it was so good.

super cute!! those timestamps seem wrong though LOL

my mom did Hello Fresh with my family during the last couple years i was in high school; we primarily did dinners and they were absolutely amazing!

I’m from the UK and I used to absolutely hate chocolate concrete (more of a chocolate hedgehog kind of girl) but I would live for the pink custard. This, sprinkle cake, chocolate hedgehogs, treacle cake and pineapple upside down cake were the only good things about school

It took until you put the mix in the pan to realize that my dad made this for camping trips, no pink custard though, it did have oatmeal. Just the crumbly choco brick that dried out your mouth...it was so good. Edit: recipe was not this, anyone hear of chokdadhaurek? Google can not find it anywhere, my dad's recipe was lost in the cookbook expansion, luckily my aunt copied it down from my grandma's cookbook.

I loved chocolate crunch and pink sauce at primary school so much my mother got the recipe from the cook so we could have it at home for years to come. I still have the recipe now and still make it in my 60’s. Delicious

Had this in school but we had mint custard, never seen the pink one, chocolate and mint yumm!!

I just had to stop mid-video to say how asmr the splop of food colouring was! Now back to the video.....

I'm from UK. Its an iconic school meal dessert we call it Chocolate Concrete. But at my school we mostly had it with green, mint flavoured custard. Personally i think that the chocolste and mint flavours works best. Another dessert was a shortbread cut the same size etc as the Concrete it had pink sugar on top and we had that with pink strawberry flavour custard. We woukd often take the Concrete out of the bowl for the finner lady poured the custard. So we woukd eat the custard and then take the chocolate Concrete out with us toveat in the playground.

Thank you Emmy, you've made a lot of Brits very happy by including something from this side of the pond! And transported many back to our childhoods. We have many great puddings for you to try. X

Custard in the go to accompaniment for puddings here. My Dad loved proper British puddings and custard so much, he was on his work canteen’s steering group for awhile because he wanted them to keep serving puddings 😆. At his funeral we even had lots of British puddings and hot custard, there was a big queue for pudding!

Yes I used to love it with strawberry custard in school and if u cleared all tables for the dinner lady's u got 2 more bits for doing it

Not sure I'm a fan of the new editing style but interesting to see how it evolves. Thank you for the video!

Why did it say frame not Stabalized? That was weird. Anywho, this is something I'm gonna have to try because it looks really good. Did they make the strawberry flavor milk sauce? Another question anyone know, if she has this as her you tube studio kitchen? It doesn't seem like a full kitchen in a house. Curious because I would like to have one one day

I definitely remember the pink custard but we always had it with a chocolate sponge cake

We never had this at our school here in the UK but we did have massive duvet like sponge pudding with chocolate, vanilla or pink vanilla custard 🤤. We never had strawberry flavoured custard but I would love to try making some. This looks amazing though like tiffin squares or biscuit cake 😋

I like seeing the close-ups of the things you make while you explaining texture and flavor to get an idea if I'd actually want to make it.

You serve the pudding cold, in warm chocolate custard. Then you get a spoon and smash it up into the custard. The texture is just perfect.

I loved this at school haven't had it in yonks might have to make some don't know about the pink custard though we always had it wirh regular custard, literally only seen pink custard on Teletubbies.

OMG... This brought back memories, I'm 53 and as a young child my school used to serve this... I thought we called it Chocolate Concrete because it was probably stale due to it being so hard, wow its actually a thing... and I'm from the UK and none of my family remember it.

This was a favourite school pudding, even when I had packed lunches I'd sometimes go and eat this! We also had a sponge with chocolate custard, and *the best* cornflake tart with custard. Our pink custard wasn't as pink as you made it (and it was very very mildly strawberry flavoured), but the custard was key to softening the crunch *I think another commenter is right in saying that it was a special mix to make the pink custard - blancmange but not served chilled!

In New Zealand we say pudding for desserts too - mostly hot desserts. For example the chocolate 'water cake' you made recently is called a 'self-saucing pudding' here.

I kind of wish Emmy would put the ingredients amounts to what she makes sometimes in the description.. especially when it turns out good. This looks like something I wouldn't mind making for my dad tbh

I loved chocolate concrete when I was at school in the ‘70’s but ours was served with mint flavoured green custar, happy memories ☺️

8:34 I love how Emmy says "prrrOjecT" like the Bowler Hat Guy from "Meet the Robinsons!" And then again at 14:59 When she says "In AWrder to hay-sen the COO-ling prrrrOsess," she sounds like she's using his accent and his drawl as well! XD That movie just fills me with so much nostalgia, so hearing that line does too. Thank you as usual, Emmy!

Hi, so i've watched your videos for years, I love them thank you. I grew up eating Chocolate concrete, I ironically had been craving it for weeks and made it this week and then noticed today that you had posted this video! I hope you enjoy it!

I’m super glad you made this! We make it often and it was a staple of school dinners here in the uk. Not so much now. Traditionally it’s made with lard, not butter. Much better in my opinion. Thank you and all the best from us here in Yorkshire!

You can see how this would be a popular institutional food. It uses readily available ingredients and equipment, it can be baked in a standard oven at a standard temperature, possibly at the same time as other dishes, it scales up or down depending on the number to be served, the prep instructions are pretty straight forward, it can be prepped ahead of time without needing refrigeration, portion size can be easily controlled, and most of all, most kids and adults will eat it, especially with a cup of tea or a glass of milk. The notion of serving a baked or boiled "pudding" with a sauce is a very old concept in British cooking tradition.

Great to see chocolate concrete getting some recognition! I was always excited when it showed up at school dinners. I never went fir the custard though. Sometimes the custard would be pink, sometimes green and sometimes plain yellow; I don't think they put extra flavouring in though - just food colouring.

I swear, you are one of the best KZfaqrs I just love this channel it has a vibe that can’t be emulated

Just another fantastic video presentation of yours! I also get a kick out of your need to have things be even and precise and neat. And you note that as well and laugh about it. It's great for a person to know themselves and not take themselves so seriously. I too have an OCD need but try to know when it's not necessary. I love this recipe and just this week made your two ingredient peanut butter fudge. I also used chocolate frosting and peanut butter for a second batch. Both were delicious and brought me back to when my Mom would make fudge. Keep up the great work!

My grandma used to make persimmon pudding. It was closer to a brownie but a little softer. I’d love to see you make persimmon pudding, that takes me back. The persimmons she had were small and were harvested when they fell to the ground. Different from Japanese persimmons

As a UK lad of an increasing...ahem....age that pink custard has given me a HUGE nostalgia hit. School dinners were never great in general but some things were. That was one of them for sure. Don't think I've even thought about pink custard for about 40 years. Thanks, Emmy, for making a boring work day into something a lot lovelier.

As an 80's baby Brit, this was a lunchtime staple even into the 90's! It's so yummy. Even though it's a bit dry. Thank you for being so respectful of the differences in wording pudding. :)

Chocolate concrete was rock hard. Pieces would go flying across the dinner hall as we used to try and break it with our spoons. The only way to eat it was to put the pink custard on and let it soak through so it went soggy enough to break with the spoon. Such fun memories of eating school dinners 😂

the skin on the custard was a prize at school dinners never mixed in

Definitely was about to shout out the ET shirt until I realized it was just your mic LOL Another great video!

As a child in one particular primary school in North Wales, some 40+ years ago, the dessert for our school dinners always seemed to be ice cold raspberry 'Ski' yogurt, so chilled that you instantly got brain freeze from it.

Emmy just transported me back 50 years. I sometimes thing everyone who went to school in 1970s Britain has a chocolate concrete memory. Our school's version was a lot harder (tooth breakingly hard) and the custard was much thicker (and yellow, not pink! )

This looks very nice, easy too! I wonder if a little bit of instant coffee would add just a little something something

School dinners were often a traumatic event, the food was always dreadful, and the days we got the mint custard, ugh, just nasty, oh dreadful the memories, it wasn't good, even just walking past the local primary school around midday, the smells coming from their dining hall brings back the bad times, I had PLENTY of dinnertime disagreements at school because the food was just such a bad experience for me (Autistic, but not known a the time, so was punished for it instead as a result!), ended up having to go home at dinner times instead cos of it... :S

Emmy your warp stabilizer made it through in your video export @13:57

Thanks Emmy! Very interesting. I think the lady who said use raspberry blamange has to be spot on. Usually it is raspberries or raspberry sauce you see with chocolate cakes or pies. At least in all the cookbooks I've ever read lol. Say do you or anyone remember Dream Whip??? When I was a kid that was one of our fave desserts. Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry I think we're the only flavors. It was powdered in packets. My Mom made that alot for us kids. I don't think it cost alot and we were a family of 7 so.. good buy for us I guess. Also a way to get all 5 kids to eat their dinner! Except Lima beans or liver. Good Lord how I hated those 2! Liver smelled awful cooking and that organ meat texture just turned us off. Tho we would eat chicken hearts because my Dad cut and delivered chickens for quite a few years. Lima beans? UGH. I used to hold a big bite and then had to go see. Into the toilet with them if I could get away with it! Have a good safe weekend lady🙏🤣🍫🍓

I'm from the UK and in the 2000s I had this! We called it "concrete cake" and my school served it with a beautiful green custard that was minty 😍💚

This recipe now joins my holiday desert arsenal. I may add finely chopped walnuts, or perhaps crushed peppermints!

I remember the chocolate concrete, but I have no memory of the pink sauce. I do not remember what we called it though. My favorite dessert is a recipe that my grandmother and great grandmother invented. They entered it into the Pillsbury contest in the 50s or 60s. They didn't win but the next year, funnily enough, a boxed dessert came out that was suspiciously similar. We call it Baked Fudge Float. You used to find a very similar dessert at buffets. Golden Corral used to serve it at their dessert section a few years ago.

Between the hat and the gloves, I thought you were breaking into a car to get the recipe! Never heard you say, "boil, bubble and toil" before! Always entertaining, Emmy! Very cool