Ice-cream Christmas pudding

Name: Ice-cream Christmas pudding
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 185 g (6 oz) dark couverture chocolate or good-quality dark chocolate; 105 g (3½ oz) cooked Christmas pudding, Christmas cake or fruit cake, cut into 1.5 cm (⅝ inch) pieces; 1 vanilla pod, split lengthways; 350 ml (11 fl oz) milk; 1 cinnamon stick; 4 egg yolks; 200 ml (6½ fl oz) cream, chilled; 2 tablespoons brandy; 95 g (3¼ oz) soft brown sugar; 45 g (1½ oz) marrons glacés, chopped; 30 ml (1 fl oz) peanut or groundnut oil; 45 g (1½ oz) amaretti biscuits, broken into large chunks; 50 g (1¾ oz) white chocolate; holly sprigs, to decorate; 45 g (1½ oz) glacé cherries, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Christmas

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1999

About

A great alternative to the traditional pudding, especially if you have a lot of children at your Christmas gathering. It can also he made in advance and just removed from the freezer 30 minutes before serving.

Ingredients

350 ml (11 fl oz) milk
1 vanilla pod, split lengthways

Dessert
Christmas
Winter
December

Method

Prepare a large bowl of iced water with a smaller bowl inside. Pour the milk into a deep heavy-based pan over medium heat. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and add to the milk with the pod and cinnamon stick. Slowly bring to the boil, then remove from the heat. Place the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and cream together using electric beaters or a wooden spoon until