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

11 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.
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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

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.
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A steamed round apple pudding, drizzled with warm apricot jam, on a round plate with a silver fork on the right.

Apple Charlotte

The British have an age-old way with bread and hot puddings, as this apple-filled bomb shows.
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Sago pudding

Sago pudding

This dessert is popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and we can why – it's pretty, simple and sweet with palm-sugar syrup.
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Apple and and berry pudding in a rectangle dish, with a scoop taken out of it, sitting on a green napkin, with a plate of vanilla ice-cream in the top-left

Apple and berry budino

This Italian dessert is endlessly versatile. Use whatever fruit is in season - just be sure to serve it piping hot.
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Saint Peter’s summer pudding

Saint Peter’s summer pudding

“If you don’t have surplus fresh berries, frozen are a perfect substitute; just give them a little more time in the sauce to warm through and soften,” says Saint Peter's Julie Niland.
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Christmas Pudding

Christmas puddings and cakes

Rum-cream, ice-cream and pouring custard at the ready. Whether you favour a traditional boiled pud or a recipe with a modern twist, we've rounded up a selection of Christmas puddings worthy of your family's finale.
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