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Ice-cream Christmas Pudding

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An ice-cream Christmas Pudding, on a plate with chocolate drizzles over the top. Christmas decorations are in the background.

Rather than spending hot summer days with the oven on for 4 hours while the Christmas Cake cooks, my family tradition is an easy Ice-cream Pudding.

It is as simple as letting your ice-cream soften, and mixing in some classic Christmas pudding ingredients into it before re-freezing. No cooking needed!

What you need 

Ingredients 

  • 1 Litre Vanilla Ice-cream 
  • 1 Litre Caramel Ice-cream 
  • 1 ½ cups mixed dried fruit 
  • 1 cup mixed glace fruit, chopped 
  • ½ cup slivered almonds, lightly toasted and chopped (see notes below) 
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

Tools

  • Large mixing bowl
  • Large metal spoon
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Ring cake or bundt tin

What to do

  1. Remove ice cream from the freezer and let sit at room temperature for approximately half an hour before using it. It should have a soft, folding consistency, but not be fully melted. 
  2. Place ice cream in a large mixing bowl. Using a metal spoon, fold in dried fruits, nuts and cinnamon. 
  3. Spoon mixture into a ring cake tin, or decorative cake tin. Store covered with plastic wrap in the freezer for several hours or until firm.
  4. Remove the Christmas pudding from the freezer 15 minutes before serving. 

Ice-cream Pudding can be made up to one week ahead of time! 

Notes:

I like to use plain slivered almonds, and not worry about chopping or roasting them, leave them out if there are people with nut allergies coming for dinner. 

For the dried fruit, I use a mix of sultanas, currants, raisins and mixed peel.

With the glace fruit, if you can use a mix of green and red cherries the colour is lovely when cut. It can be hard to find glace pineapple or ginger, yet both add to the flavour, sometimes health food stores will have stocks close to Christmas.

You can freeze the mix in silicone muffin or domed trays, so that you can make individual serves - with a little melted chocolate drizzled over. 

Suggestions for other fun ways to decorate it are with things like puree and whole berries, fresh mint, chocolate sprinkles, hundreds and thousands, smarties, mini meringues, marshmallows, crushed Tim-Tams, or Maltesers. Or add your favourite choice of sweets.  A super-easy way to do melted chocolate is using Cottees  "Ice magic", or maybe add some edible silver sprinkles. 

And, if you like the established Christmas tradition of coins in your Christmas pudding, you can now purchase special packs of sixpence and threepence pre-decimal currency. Warning ⚠️ - Choking Hazard - Not recommended for children under 3 years or people with swallowing difficulty. Available from the Royal Australian Mint Christmas Pudding Coin Pack or through the Perth Mint.

I hope you have fun making, and eating this version of Christmas ice-cream pudding! 

Another recipe you may enjoy is White Christmas Rocky Road

IDEAS does information so you can do Christmas. 

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