MINI FESTIVE CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS - Real Recipes from Mums

This recipe is a favourite in Food Technology with our Year 7s. It is easy to prepare, economical, and makes a lovely handmade gift at Christmas time.

Ingredients (makes 48 )

1 Store bought fruit cake
1 Packet white chocolate melts
1 Packet spearmint lollies (for decorating)
1 Packet raspberry lollies (for decorating)
4 tbsp Orange juice
4 tbsp Melted butter

Method

Crumble fruit cake into a large mixing bowl. Stir through melted butter and orange juice and mix until combined.
Melt white chocolate and set aside for decorating.
Slice spearmint lollies (you'll only need to use a few for the entire batch!) Slice raspberry lollies (I usually cut them into quarters).
Roll cake mixture into balls (approximately truffle sized) and place on a plate. When all mixture has been rolled, dip each in the melted chocolate and stick two pieces of spearmint on top (leaves) and a raspberry centre, to appear as a holly decoration on each 'pudding'.
Refrigerate puddings for approximately 15 mins or until chocolate is set. Place on a plate and wrap festively with cellophane for gifting!

Notes

We use light fruit cake at school but dark would also work well. At school, each student uses 1/4 of a cake and makes approximately 12 puddings from this. These puddings keep well in a container in the fridge and will last several weeks!

111 Comments

- - cassy26 said
  - 18 May 2024
    10:12 am
Aww I love these. They’re super cute. Saving this with my Christmas recipes.

- - Frankiielot said
  - 18 Oct 2022
    9:55 am
These look so cute!
So easy too that you use a ready made one to decorate.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 20 May 2019
    12:21 pm
Sounds like a quick and easy dish to prepare thanks for sharing

- - Ellen said
  - 03 Jan 2019
    2:53 am
Thanks for sharing

- - ella12 said
  - 06 Dec 2018
    12:39 pm
Ooh nice, they look really yummy.

- - rovermum said
  - 06 Dec 2018
    9:15 am
I’ve never made these but love eating them when friends make them!!

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 06 Dec 2018
    8:55 am
This looks amazing, thanks for sharing!

- - mom90758 said
  - 27 Nov 2017
    1:55 pm
What an easy and at the same elegant way to work with fruit cakes!!

- - mom112023 said
  - 17 Apr 2017
    11:58 pm
I like your recipe and something a bit different when I need to take a plate to christmas gatherings and parties. Thanks.

- - mom111059 said
  - 29 Sep 2016
    9:04 pm
I know what I’m making for Christmas desert. Thanks for the recipe.

- - mom103232 said
  - 18 Sep 2016
    9:17 pm
These are ALWAYS on our christmas dessert table. Their so easy and taste great too.

- - mom112217 said
  - 15 Aug 2016
    3:10 pm
I would love to make the puddings this Christmas,very adorable!

- - Melissa89 said
  - 30 Jul 2016
    11:28 pm
These look so sweet

- - Nas01 said
  - 14 Jun 2016
    12:37 pm
These look so cute. Thanks for sharing.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 28 Dec 2015
    8:05 pm
So utterly sweet and dainty looking.

- - mom62624 said
  - 17 Nov 2015
    6:36 am
This is an ingenious and festive idea; thanks for sharing!.

- - Toni Rowland said
  - 29 Sep 2015
    8:52 pm
Great Christmas gift. Yum

- - mom66977 said
  - 27 Sep 2015
    8:54 pm
BRING ON XMAS!!

- - rebekah.bone said
  - 30 Jul 2015
    7:38 pm
Looks good, thanks for sharing.

- - Kell said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    11:46 pm
Sadly the spearmint leaves no longer exist Dam you Allens!!!!!!!!
- kjgarner replied
  
  30 Nov 2017 , 11:09 am
  We have Farmer Feld’s Fresh Produce where we live, sells mostly fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs and milk but they have an area were you can buy dried fruit, boiled lollies, honeycomb etc. and they sell spearmint leaves. So I will be buying mine from there, hopefully you’ll be able to find them somewhere, they are yummy!