Halloween Dessert Pudding: Worms and Maggots

For the Rice Maggots

1. Pour rice into a pan and briefly rinse with water clean. Strain well.
2. Pour milk to rice and keep over a medium heat setting.
3. Stir in salt and sugar.
4. Cook down your rice, stirring occasionally so that nothing sticks at the bottom. Always keep over a manageable medium heat setting. It should cook down steadily and bubble a bit, but not vigorously. The rice should be cooked through and appear sticky and thicker when done.

For the Vermicelli Worms

1. In a second pan, add the vermicelli noodles.
2. Stir milk, butter, vanilla extract, sugar and red food coloring into the noodles.
3. Keep over a medium heat setting and mix it all well.
4. Cook down vermicelli and stir occasionally so that nothing sticks to the bottom of the pan. The heat needs to be regulated and set at a medium to low level. The dessert can bubble a bit because it needs to cook down, but not all too wild. Yet, the noodles will thicken faster and easier than the rice.

To put the Dessert together

1. Take both pans from the heat when cooked and pour the vermicelli into the rice.
2. Briefly and roughly mix the noodles and rice together. Not too much because you want that the rice remains on the whiter side to make it appear like maggots and the noodles should still look like worms.
3. Plate up sweet vermicelli and rice pudding into a small serving bowl.
4. Sprinkle chocolate or cocoa powder over that to make it appear like mud.
5. Enjoy this Halloween dessert still hot or cold.