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gluten free spiced festive pudding

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

  1. Soak the mixed dried fruit and the cranberries overnight in the orange juice or cider, add in the rum if using.
  2. In a large bowl, mix the chopped tinned apple, the soaked dried fruit, sunflower seeds, margarine, sugar, the beaten eggs, treacle and the spices.
  3. 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.
  4. Place into a preheated 160oC Fan for 45 minutes, remove, leave to cool then wrap in foil.