Mini Christmas Puddings with Brandy Crème Fraîche

A real Christmas pudding you need to start in October. And it should be done on “stir-up Sunday”: That’s the day that everyone starts their pudding. The joke is that the steamed cake should be drizzled with liquor for weeks to come until Christmas. Not only does this preserve it, but the flavor also intensifies enormously.

If you didn’t think to make it in advance, or simply don’t have time to tend a pudding for two months, you can do it like this. Because you make these mini puddin