Name: Gluten-Free Baked Christmas Pudding
Ingredients: 400 g mixed dried fruit; 100 g dried cranberry; 180 ml orange juice or cider; 30 ml brandy or rum (optional); 170 g tinned apple (chopped); 30 g sunflower seeds; 140 g dairy-free margarine (melted); 100 g muscovado sugar; 2 eggs (beaten); 3 tbsp treacle; 2 tsp mixed spice; 2 tsp cinnamon; Grating of nutmeg; 125 g Schar Vitality bread (crumbs); 80 g Schar Mix it

This boozy gluten-free baked Christmas pudding-inspired dessert is sumptuously moist and celebrates the very best flavours of the festive season.

Gluten-Free Baked Christmas Pudding

This boozy gluten-free Christmas pudding-inspired dessert is sumptuously moist and celebrates the very best flavours of the festive season.

Course Dessert

Cuisine baking

Keyword gluten-free, gluten-free baking, gluten-free christmas, gluten-free recipe

Ingredients

400 g mixed dried fruit
100 g dried cranberry
180 ml orange juice or cider
30 ml brandy or rum optional
170 g tinned apple chopped
30 g sunflower seeds
140 g dairy-free margarine melted
100 g muscovado sugar
2 eggs beaten
3 tbsp treacle
2 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp cinnamon
Grating of nutmeg
125 g Schar Vitality bread crumbs
80 g Schar Mix it

Instructions

Soak the mixed dried fruit and the cranberries overnight in the orange juice or cider, add in the rum if using.
In a large bowl, mix the chopped tinned apple, the soaked dried fruit, sunflower seeds, margarine, sugar, the beaten eggs, treacle and the spices.
Whizz up the bread to a fine crumb, add in the mix it, stir everything together and place it into a parchment lined 22cm x 22 cm square tin. Cover the top with parchment ensuring a good seal.
Place into a preheated 160oC Fan for 45 minutes, remove, leave to cool then wrap in foil.

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