Classic fruity Christmas puddings are a huge part of Christmas celebrations all over the world and whether we like it or not they hugely form part of at least one of our family member's Christmas menus. This year, you might be planning on branching out from your usual Christmas pudding recipe and looking for some ways to spice it up a little bit. There are a whole variety of different recipes out there for you to try, so let's get baking!
Here are 10 of the best fruity Christmas pudding recipes that you need to try this festive season.
10 Classic Christmas Pudding
The classic Christmas pudding is one that has become a traditional staple in many kitchens around Christmas time. Most of us have a family recipe that has been passed on through the generations but if you don't, here is another traditional Christmas pudding recipe for you to try. It's a lighter recipe than the usual recipe, which makes it much more enjoyable and flavorsome.
9 Sticky Toffee Christmas Pudding
This Christmas Sticky Toffee Pudding looks just like a Christmas pudding but it's a much more enjoyable modern twist to the traditional dessert. it still contains a bunch of raisins and dates, as well as some rum, but the base for the recipe much more resembles a sticky toffee pudding. Serve with some custard or vanilla ice cream at dessert time.
8 Steamed Carrot Pudding
This pudding recipe still includes all the nuts, fruit, and rum and while focusing more on adding carrot and spices, including nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves. Once cooked, the carrot pudding is coated in a vanilla sauce made from sugar, cornstarch, salt, water, butter, nutmeg, and vanilla extract.
7 Festive date & pecan pudding
This recipe can best be described as a cross between sticky toffee pudding and Christmas pudding, similar to the toffee pudding we mentioned earlier but with dates and pecans. It has a brandy syrup that coats the pudding once it is fully ready, and can be served with ice cream or custard.
6 Christmas Plum Pudding
This plum pudding is Britians traditional Christmas pudding. It's dark, moist, rich, and fruity, being packed full of dried fruit like plums, raisins, figs, and black currents. You will definitely want to recreate this Christmas dessert this festive season if you're a fan of Christmas pudding.
5 Chocolate Christmas Pudding
Christmas dessert just doesn't count if there isn't just a little bit of chocolate thrown in there. If you aren't a fan of the traditional fruity Christmas pudding then this is going to be right up your alley. It's a chocolate pudding filled with layers of chocolate mouse, that is designed and shaped to resemble a Christmas pudding. It is then covered in a delicious chocolate topping and even more, chocolate is grated on top for some extra decoration. It's a dream come true for chocoholics!
4 Vegan Christmas Pudding
The vegan Christmas pudding to top all others. It substitutes all the dairy for vegan alterities, while still keeping those delicious flavors and textures you probably love so much.
3 Rum and Pineapple Christmas Pudding
This boozy Christmas pudding can be made up to three months in advance (which sounds like a lot of effort for us folk who usually end up leaving things till the last minute.) It's filled with lots of sultanas, currants, almonds, and pineapple pieces.
2 Sticky Marmalade and Ginger Christmas Pudding
This is probably the easiest and quickest Christmas pudding you will ever make. It only takes 10 minutes to make and 5 minutes to cook in the microwave, which sounds absolutely impossible but actually is THAT easy. The tanginess of the ginger combines really well with the sweetness of the orange marmalade.
1 Steamed Figgy Pudding
This Christmas pudding has figs at the very center of its deliciousness. It's packed full of dried fruit, cranberries, orange, figs, and spiced rum. Serve with a side of bourbon custard or some vanilla ice cream (or both).
