With booze-soaked currants, lashings of brandy and glacé fruits, there is a Christmas pudding recipe for you in this list to put a classic sweet finish to your yuletide feast. They’re best made five to six weeks before the big day, so now is a good time as any to start planning. Plus, our frozen variation on the Christmas pudding – just what you need for our hot Australian Christmases. It’s also plum season, so make the most of the tart stone fruit by making a plum pudding.
If you’re looking for inspiration for recipes that don’t require quite a lead time, here’s our one stop shop for Christmas salad recipes.
The best Christmas pudding recipes in 2024
Double plum pudding with brown sugar hard sauce
Christmas recipe for double plum pudding with brown sugar hard sauce.
Classic boiled Christmas pudding
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for classic boiled Christmas pudding.
Raspberry and peach butterscotch pudding
A summery Australian version of the Christmas classic.
Ronda’s Christmas pudding by Jeremy Strode
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Ronda’s Christmas pudding by Jeremy Strode.
Rich Christmas pudding with muscat custard
A traditional pudding, rich with dark fruit and spiked with muscat.
Rodney Dunn’s Christmas pudding
Australian Gourmet Traveller Christmas recipe for Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding semifreddo
If there’s a better way to use up leftover Christmas pudding, we’ve yet to find it.
Lauren Eldridge’s Christmas fruit pudding frozen nougatine
A cool spin on the traditional yuletide pud.
How to make a boiled Christmas pudding
Made with sweet dried fruits, fragrant spices, a generous dash of booze and a token surprise or two – the Christmas pudding is the perfect finale to any festive family meal.
Traditional Christmas pudding with Pedro Ximénez and brown sugar and fig ice-cream
Recipe for traditional Christmas pudding with Pedro Ximénez and brown sugar and fig ice-cream.
Frozen Christmas pudding
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for frozen Christmas pudding.