Venezuelan Marquesa de Chocolate – Laylita's Recipes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 3 cups milk (2 cups for the chocolate pudding + 1 cup milk for soaking the cookies)
• 1/4 cup espresso coffee powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 1/4 cup salted butter (If you don't have salted butter, use sweet butter and add a pinch of salt to the mixture)
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted)
• 2 packages of Maria cookies (200 g each package (400 g total))
• 1/4 cup rum
• Chocolate shavings and chocolate buttercream to decorate