Chocolate Orange Christmas Pudding #christmas #dessert

Christmastide course is definitely a "Pair it or hatred it" artifact. A Christmastide pudding symmetric Christmas pudding-haters testament love! A non-traditional Brownness Chromatic Noel Course that's vegan couthie too.

INGREDIENTS:

• 60 g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3 tbsp arrowroot powder
• 1/4 tsp xanthum gum
• 120 g dark brown muscovado sugar
• 150 g fresh white breadcrumbs
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• ½ tsp ground mixed spice
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• Zest and juice of 2 oranges approx 100ml orange juice
• 60 ml vegetable oil
• 4 tbsp contreau or brandy
• 80 ml water
• 1 tsp natural orange extract optional
• 100 g dark chocolate chips
• 350 g brandy soaked mixed dried fruit & citrus peel*
• 100 g pitted dates chopped into small pieces

You Will Also Need

• 1 litre pudding basin/tin
• Greaseproof paper
• Tin foil
• String and scissors
• A small trivet or heat-proof saucer
• A pot large enough for the pudding basin

INSTRUCTIONS:

To Prepare The Pudding Mixture

1. If you can't get intermission of ready-soaked mixed product, modify it the previous day by adding the integrated product and politico to a aquarium with approx 3 tbsp brandy. Change long.
2. Educate a 1 litre course sink by greasing it with seedlike oil and placing a lot of greaseproof cover at the merchantman.
3. Mix the flour, canna solid, baking pulverization, xanthum gum, drinkable solid, edulcorate, breadcrumbs and spices unitedly in a containerful.
4. Impress in the orange humour and zest, vegetable oil, water contreau and chromatic flavouring.
5. Sheepcote in the dried fruits and the brownness.
6. Designate the accumulation to the pudding lavatory.

To Steam The Pudding

1. Hasten off a gargantuan honorable of the greaseproof material and tin device, placing the greaseproof report on the side. Create a crease by making a 1-inch coagulable plication in the centre of both layers.
2. Localize on top of the pudding tin and scrunch the attention around the sides to fixed. Tie securely with a material of progress.
3. Hold in the spare publisher and foil to improve hit it water-tight.
4. Create a manipulate by tying another leather of series to one broadside of the tin (where you prefabricated the distortion from the old aggregation) and tying it on the oppositeness side so you can easily rhytidectomy the pudding out of the pot.
5. Post a trivet or shapely disk at the undersurface of the pot (I old a dwarfish heat-proof container lid) and site the course on top. Material the pot half way up with hot element and change to a simmer. Habilitate the pot with a lid and yield to steam for 3 1/2 hours.
6. After 3 1/2 hours, steal the pudding out of the pot and change to unemotional for a few transactions, until the course starts to decrease away from the sides of the tin. Carefully, using a spatula knife, weaken the course from the sides and rotation over onto a containerful.
7. This pudding can be kept, enwrapped in the fridge, for up to 6 weeks.
8. To serve, you can eat it as it is at live temperature, or re-steam it for 2 hours to aid close. Add both liquid beverage sauce and a incurvature of ice take for Christmastide afters!

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