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10 Christmas pudding recipes

There's sugar, spice and all things nice. Get ahead with your Christmas dessert preparation and you'll be rewarded on the big day.
Traditional Christmas pudding with Pedro Ximénez and brown sugar and fig ice-cream

Don't wait till it's too late to make these Christmas pudding recipes.

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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.

An arrangement displaying two hanging Christmas puddings, wrapped in calico, and a table arranged with a white pudding bowl, a grey tea towel, kitchen string, scissors and a wrapped Christmas pudding
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How to make a boiled Christmas pudding

Double plum pudding with brown sugar hard sauce
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Double plum pudding with brown sugar hard sauce

Classic boiled Christmas pudding
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Classic boiled Christmas pudding

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Raspberry and peach butterscotch pudding

Ronda’s Christmas pudding
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Ronda’s Christmas pudding by Jeremy Strode

Rich Christmas pudding with muscat custard
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Rich Christmas pudding with muscat custard

Photo: Teny Aghamalian

Rodney Dunn’s Christmas pudding

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Christmas pudding semifreddo

Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s Christmas fruit pudding frozen nougatine

Traditional Christmas pudding with Pedro Ximénez and brown sugar and fig ice-cream
Photo: Chris Chen

Traditional Christmas pudding with Pedro Ximénez and brown sugar and fig ice-cream

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