Mini Christmas Puddings with Brandy Crème Fraîche

Name: Mini Christmas Puddings with Brandy Crème Fraîche
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: ½ cup (125 ml) brandy or cognac; 3 tablespoons honey or syrup; Heaping 1 cup (150 g) currants; Heaping 1 cup (150 g) raisins; Heaping ⅓ cup (75 g) succade (preserved or crystalized fruit), chopped; ½ teaspoon Freshly grated nutmeg; Grated zest and juice of 1 orange; ¾ cup (100 g) pitted dates, chopped; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon speculaas spices; ¾ cup (100 g) all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar; 3 tablespoons brandy, or more if you wish to flambé; 1¼ cups (300 ml) crème fraîche; ⅓ cup (150 g) cold butter, cubed, plus more for the muffin tin; ½ cup (100 g) lightly packed brown sugar; 2 eggs, beaten; 1 tablespoon ground ginger; A pinch of sea salt; 1 cup (100 g) dry breadcrumbs

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Home Made Christmas

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2018

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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

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October
Christmas
Vegetarian

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