A gluten-free and dairy-free Christmas pudding!
I make a couple of Christmas puddings each year and wanted to try something different from the fruit pudding I normally make. One my friends made an almond and orange cake so I searched the web and adapted a couple of recipes to create a Christmas Almond and Orange Pudding. It's taken a couple of years but I think the recipe is finally ready to share!
Milestone celebrations call for something special! Hubby's Brother asked me to cook a Christmas pudding for their mother's 90th birthday celebration. With 20 guests I needed to double the quantity of the ingredients and, because we weren't having a cake, I decided to turn the pudding into a cake.
Perfect for a hot, sunny Christmas day!
Years ago I cut out a recipe from the daily newspaper for a Christmas ice cream pudding that came from Iain "Huey" Hewitson's book Huey's Greatest Hits. Over the years I've modified the recipe to suit the tastes and dietary restrictions of my family. Even Huey has changed his recipe—the original recipe has double the quantities in his current ice cream pudding recipe.
A lovely moist pudding that is lower in fat than our traditional family pudding.
A quick and easy treat to make for the holidays!
Looking for a last minute Christmas gift? What about a plate of White Christmas—bite-sized squares of crunchy rice bubbles mixed with sweet delights.
Hubby was relating how his mother used to always make White Christmas at this time of the year so I decided to have a go. Searching the Web yielded lots of recipes for White Christmas. After taking bits and pieces from different recipes and a disastrous overly-sweet first batch, I ended up with this basic recipe and two batches that cater for the family's dietary restrictions: one low in potassium and another that is dairy-free and nut-free.
Perfect for a cold Winter's night.
Gluhwëin is also known as mulled or spiced wine. We first tasted gluhwëin in Vienna, Austria where the temperature was near freezing and every Christmas market seemed to have a stall selling it. Maybe not suitable for a Southern hemisphere Christmas but perfect for those Northern Christmases.
A perfect accompaniment to the Christmas pudding.
This is a work colleague's family recipe. It makes about 600ml of sauce.
