Name: Chocolate Crunch Christmas Pudding
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 1 oz (25 g) currants; 1 oz (25 g) candied peel; 3 oz (75 g) plain chocolate; 2 tablespoons (2 x 15 ml spoon) brandy or rum; 2 teaspoons (2 x 5 ml spoon) ground cinnamon; 3 oz (75 g) raisins; 6 oz (150 g) crushed ginger biscuits; 8 oz (200 g) plain chocolate; 1 oz (25 g) butter or margarine; 6 oz (150 g) butter or margarine; 3 tablespoons (3 x 15 ml spoon) golden syrup; a little icing sugar, 2-3 halved glacé cherries and a sprig of holly for decoration; 2 oz (50 g) glacé cherries - roughly chopped; 6 oz (150 g) crushed plain sweet biscuits; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) water

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

If you are not insistent on sticking to tradition you can make this, which is not a Christmas pudding at all (it is crunchy and cold instead of soft and hot) but it looks perfect as an alternative on Christmas Day. It also has the advantage of being extremely quick to make and is much more popular than Christmas pudding with most children, and several adults too. It is expensive on chocolate but rich and filling and goes a long way.