How to Make a Healthy Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

 

Strawberry Smoothie Ingredients:

Yields: 4 servings

2 cups fresh strawberries (16-18 strawberries)

1 cup skim milk (low fat)

1 ½ cups vanilla yogurt

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

½ cup (8-10) ice cubes

Directions:

1. Place ice cubes into a blender or food processor and blend until crushed.
2. Add all other ingredients and blend until smooth.

Strawberry banana smoothie ideas:

If you love strawberries and bananas both, simply add 2 ripe, sliced bananas to the above recipe for a refreshing smoothie. Packed with antioxidants, vitamin C, and potassium, it is an extremely healthy drink. A strawberry banana smoothie is an ideal for on the go breakfast or a late afternoon snack.

Chocolate smoothie recipe for kids:

Who minds chocolate for breakfast? While the above smoothie recipe itself is a great way to get picky eaters eating fruit they might not otherwise, 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup added will get them on the breakfast table in no time.

Dos and don’ts of breakfast smoothies

With the right blend of ingredients, a breakfast smoothie can be a nutritional powerhouse, whereas, just a few misguided add-ins, can quickly transform it into a high calorie, sugar laden dessert. So, make sure you avoid these pitfalls:

• Don’t just throw everything into the blender; instead measure the ingredients to keep the nutrition stats in check.
• Never add sugar to your smoothies. If needed to sweeten, do so naturally. Try adding, dates, beets, or honey.
• Lastly, beware of overindulging. To keep the calories and sugar in check avoid second servings. Try adding ingredients such as oats or avocado to keep you feeling full long after the breakfast.

Apart from being healthy, this strawberry smoothie makes a wonderful treat for any occasion. So, which version are you trying this morning?

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How to Make Moist Chocolate Cake from Scratch

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Chocolate Cake Ingredients:

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Moist chocolate cake recipe tips and tricks

To bake the perfect moist chocolate recipe cake, you have to be careful to not over bake it, without opening the oven to check it too many times. Also, using the toothpick or a wooden skewer is an immense help, but don’t forget that you are aiming in a moist cake, so don’t expect the toothpick to come out completely clean.

It’s almost impossible to go wrong with a chocolate dessert, whether you offer it to your dinner guests or have it as an everyday treat. And it can be served with many variations, since chocolate tastes great with seasonal fruits, whipped cream, chopped nuts and so many more yummy things.

Do you enjoy cake decorating? 

These cake decorating tips could be just for you!

This moist chocolate cake from scratch is going to taste better than any boxed cake mix and you can make easily a layered cake with it. Also, decorating it is really easy and think about adding some white chocolate chips or caramel chips into the mixture to give it a twist. Also, adding a little orange or lemon zest will take the cake to another level.

What are your favorite chocolate cake recipes? Look through Stagetecture’s chocolate cake recipe archives here.

How to Make Fresh Peach Cobbler in a Crockpot

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Peach Cobbler Ingredients

8 servings

2 pounds ripe but firm peaches (halved, pitted, and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices)

3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cups rolled oats

4 tablespoons unsalted butter and more for coating the Crock Pot at room temperature)

1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground allspice

1 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 cups dark brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Peach Cobbler Directions

1. Coat the bottom side of your Crock Pot completely with butter. Set aside.
2. Take a large bowl and whisk all-purpose flour, oats, spices, baking powder, brown sugar, and salt to mix them with each other. Toss the measured butter into the flour mixture so that it is well coated into flour.
3. Use 2 knives or a pastry blender to cut the coated butter into the dry ingredients. Keep cutting for 2 to 3 minutes or until the butter is reduced to pea-size pieces. The mixture will look crumbly.
4. Bring in the peach slices to the mixture and mix until everything is well combined. Spread the mixture evenly into a 6-quart Crockpot because a 4-quart is not large enough to cook properly.
5. Set the Crockpot over low heat and cook for nearly 3 hours or until the peaches are tender and the crumbled mixture is brown.
6. Scoop the peach cobbler into small serving bowls. If you like, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

Fresh Peach Cobbler Tips:

1. You can substitute the normal peaches with nectarines. However, it will not make the preparation less sumptuous.
2. To prevent the sides of cobbler from getting burned, line the Crockpot with cooking parchment paper.
3. Put paper towels under the Crockpot lid to stop dripping condensation from making the dough mushy.

Peach Desserts: The Best of Crockpot Recipes

A fresh peach cobbler is the best slow cooker dessert recipe that you can imagine to reward yourself with after a long day’s work. Simmering the fresh peach pieces into the Crockpot yields something rustic and relaxed, the best thing to enjoy besides a campfire or a cozy family dinner.

For more peach desserts on Stagetecture, click here.

Breakfast in Bed: Valentine’s Red Velvet Pancakes Recipe 

Red Velvet Pancakes Ingredients:

Makes:  24 Pancakes

Total Preparation Time:  50min

2 cups All-purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoons Baking powder

½ teaspoon Baking soda

½ teaspoon Salt

½ cup Sugar

½ cup Unsweetened cocoa powder

2 large Eggs

1 ½ cups Buttermilk

½ cups Sour cream

2 tablespoons Red food coloring

2 teaspoons Pure vanilla extract

6 tablespoons Butter, melted

Red Velvet Pancakes Directions:

1)      Sift the all-purpose flour, powdered sugar, unsweetened cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into one large bowl.  Then take another large bowl and beat the eggs with the buttermilk and stir the sour cream, vanilla extract, food coloring until the mixture is smooth.

2)      Next, slowly add the dry ingredient mixture to the wet ingredient mixture and gradually add to the melted butter mixture.  Make sure to keep stirring until all of the mixtures are thoroughly even all around.

3)      Third, take a non-stick pan or griddle and set on medium heat for pan and 4 on the griddle.  Pour ¼ pancake sizes onto the heat metals (whichever you choose).

4)      Flip until reached desired shape and firmness.  Then place on the plate and enjoy with either cream cheese or syrup or both.  And make sure to add more powdered sugar on the top for extra goodness like display in the first photo.

For more breakfast recipes on Stagetecture, click here.

Valentine’s Molten Lava Chocolate Cakes 

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Lava Chocolate Cake Ingredients:

• 2 sticks unsalted butter, plus more for the ramekins
• 4 teaspoons granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Pinch of cayenne pepper
• Pinch of nutmeg
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, plus more for dusting (optional)
• 6 large eggs plus 6 egg yolks
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Molten Lava Chocolate Cake Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Butter eight 6-ounce ramekins and sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar.
2. Combine the butter, cinnamon, cayenne, nutmeg and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently until melted and smooth. Cool slightly. Whisk the flour, confectioners’ sugar, eggs and yolks, vanilla extract and almond extract in a bowl until creamy. Whisk in the melted chocolate mixture. Divide among the prepared ramekins.
3. Bake the cakes until the tops are stiff and the edges darken, 12 to 14 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool 5 minutes. Loosen the edges of the cakes with a small paring knife and transfer to plates while warm. Dust with confectioners’ sugar.

Looking for a Moist Chocolate Cake recipe?

We love this moist chocolate cake recipe here.

You can serve at least eight slices of pure chocolate cake pleasure. Your loved ones will surely enjoy this chocolate cake on every bite.

For more chocolate dessert recipes on Stagetecture, click here.

24 Of Our Best Party Food Ideas and Super Bowl Snacks

1. Game Day Favorite Philly Style Cheesesteak

Let’s start off with a sports favorite.  The classic Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich.  This mouth watering tailgating/ sports party favorite has been on the menu for decades.  This sandwich carries all of the comforting deep sauteed flavors that will leave you and your guests very satisfied especially on Super bowl Sunday.

2. Super Bowl Snacks Football Sugar Cookies

Dessert snacks anyone?  The football sugar cookies are great grab-n-go snacks when cheering for your favorite team during the day.  A nice pop of sweet sugar cookie for anyone to enjoy from the adults to the kiddies.  Not only are they simple to make but even better to taste so give them a try on the party day.

3. Super Bowl Food Easy Chicken Parmesan Garlic Bread Pizza

Who doesn’t love pizza?  The chicken Parmesan pizza with garlic bread is great if you have a multitude of guests or if you are just flying solo.  The recipe is simple with all of the traditional ingredients of herbs, crispy chicken, and chicken that will shoot your tastes buds through the roof.

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4. Super Bowl Appetizer Pulled Pork Sliders

Here is another recipe for your party food ideas that will become a super bowl favorite in your household.  The slow cooker pulled pork sliders are fill with the down-home barbecue that everyone will love to enjoy.  Pull pork bathed in sweet and spicy barbecue sauce and topped with creamy coleslaw.  Yum!

20 Super Bowl Appetizers Ideas from Blogger Friends

1. Crispy Baked Buffalo Chicken Tenders
2. Coconut Shrimp
3. Cole Slaw Chicken Sliders
4. Fajita Bowls
5. Hot Crab Dip
6. Spicy Thai Chicken Wings
7. Cowboy Caviar Recipe
8. The Best Philly Cheesesteak Egg Roll Recipe
9. Twice Baked Potatoes
10. Blue Cheese & Balsamic Steak Sliders
11. Hot Swiss Cheese and Bacon Dip Recipe
12. Cheesy Crab Bite Appetizers
13. Cajun Glazed Bacon
14. Polenta Footballs
15. Taco Salad Mini Bites
16. Pizza Bites
17. Beer Cheese Dip
18. Spicy Buffalo Cheese Dip
19. Ultimate Easy Nachos
20. Chicken Sliders

Looking for more delicious recipes for your game day celebration?

Try these Empanadas and Pigs in a Blanket recipes.

Super bowl Sunday is on the way and you don’t have to be unprepared for it.  try out some of these party food ideas on the table and see what a difference it will make on game day.

Now that you have the snacks and appetizers, what about Football themed desserts?

See our 21 Favorite Football Themed Dessert recipes

For more great Super Bowl snack ideas visit our archives.

21 of Our Favorite Football Themed Desserts

1. Football Themed Desserts: Sugar Cookies Recipe

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Super Bowl Dessert Ingredients:

For Cookies:

2 cups flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 stick room temperature unsalted butter

1 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoon milk or cream

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For Football Themed Cookies Icing:

2 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 tablespoon milk, plus more if needed for consistency

1 tablespoon light corn syrup

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Brown food coloring

Football Themed Desserts Directions:

1. Use your mixer to cream together the butter and sugar together. When thoroughly combined, add in the egg, milk, and vanilla extract.
2. Meanwhile, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
3. Turn the mixer to the lowest setting and gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Continue mixing until a cohesive dough forms.
4. Flour a work surface and flatten the dough into a disk. Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and transfer it to the freezer to set for at least half an hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
6. Flour two sheets of parchment paper. Unwrap the dough and roll it into a 1/8 inch thick sheet between the two pieces of parchment paper, dusting as needed to keep the dough from sticking.
7. Remove the top sheet of parchment paper and use a football-shaped cookie cutter to cut out shapes. Gather the dough scraps into a ball, roll it into another sheet, and continue cutting out shapes until all the dough has been used.
8. Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes, rotating them halfway through.
9. Allow them to cool completely on a wire rack before decorating.
10. While the cookies cool, start the icing by thoroughly sifting the confectioners’ sugar.
11. Mix the sifted sugar with the milk until a spreadable consistency is achieved.
12. Beat the corn syrup and almond extract into the icing until it becomes smooth and glossy.
13. Separate 1/3 of the icing into a different bowl. Stir brown food coloring into the larger portion until it reaches the shade of a football.
14. Leave the other icing white. Cover the bowl with a moist paper towel to make sure the icing does not dry out.
15. When the cookies have cooled completely, use the back of a spoon to spread a dollop of brown icing across each one.
16. Let the cookies stand for at least 20 minutes to allow the brown icing to harden.
17. Put the white icing into a pastry bag with a 2” tip. (Note: If you don’t have a pastry bag, you can use a thumbtack to work a small hole into the corner of a sandwich baggie.)
18. To decorate each end of the cookie: Pipe two lines of white icing to create a thick, curved C-shape. Fill in the space between the two lines with more icing.
19. To decorate the center of each cookie: Pipe a single vertical line. Then, pipe several smaller horizontal lines across it in order to create the laces.
20. Allow the white icing at least 10 minutes to set before serving.

This recipe will make around 30 football-shaped cookies. But when planning for your party, aim for two cookies per person. Feel free to play around with cookie shapes, food coloring, and piping designs in order to make this recipe work for you. While, as it stands, this is a super bowl dessert, it could easily be made into a go-to recipe for every special day.

20 Football Themed Desserts from our Blogger Friends

1.  Chelsea’s Messy Apron – Sugar Cookie Football Stadium
2. Life Love and Sugar – Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Footballs
3. The First Year Blog – Football Bark
4. Brite and Bubbly – DIY Dairy-Fre Football Shaped Fudge
5. Jenn’s BlahBlah Blog – Nutter Butter Football Cookies
6. Life is Poppin – Dr. Pepper Football Brownies
7. Jman and Miller Bug – Ice Cream Football Pops
8. Thrifty Jinxy – Snickers Rice Crispy Football Treat
9. The Country Chic Cottage – Snickers Football Cake
10. Mom Endeavors – Football Oreo Pops
11. The Suburban Mom – Dairy-Free Football Truffles
12. Well Plated – Football Peanut Butter Blondies
13. B Inspired Mama – Football Brownie Cupcakes
14. Sweet Simple Stuff – Sweet, Salty, and Gooey Footballs
15. Your Cup of Cake – Football Field Cupcakes
16. Shugary Sweets – Cookies and Cream Football Cheese Ball
17. Jman and Miller Bug – Iced Football Cookie
18. Chelsea’s Messy Apron – Football Shaped No-Bake Granola Bars
19. The First Year Blog – Football Oreo Balls
20. Sarah’s Bake Studio – Chocolate Football Pretzel Rods

Are you looking for more football themed appetizers and snacks for the big game?

Take a look at our 24 Super Bowl Snacks that are sure to get the party started!

For more desserts on Stagetecture, click here.

21 Of Our Favorite Chocolate Truffle Recipes

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How to Make Truffles That Wow!

Making chocolate truffles recipes can seem like a challenge, but we can help. The secret to making impressive truffles is this: choose high-quality chocolate and organic cream. If you can’t find quality chocolate, choose one with 62% cocoa or higher. If you don’t like dark chocolate, make white chocolate truffles. Don’t think of where to buy truffles when you can make your very own. Follow this recipe for the best outcome.

Chocolate Truffles Recipes Ingredients:

50g unsalted butter

300ml organic cream

300g high-quality dark chocolate

Flavoring (like orange zest or vanilla)

Crushed nut toppings (such as desiccated coconut or crushed pistachio nuts)

White chocolate

100g milk

Chocolate Truffle Directions:

1. Chop the chocolate and put it in a big bowl.
2. In a saucepan, mix the cream and butter and heat them until the butter melts and the cream simmers.
3. Remove the mixture from the heat and pour it over the chocolate. Stir the mixture till it blends smoothly. Add the flavoring at this point then cool and chill for about 4 hours.
4. Shape the truffles by dipping a melon baller in hot water and scooping balls of the mixture and placing them on greaseproof paper. You can also coat your hands with flavorless oil and roll the truffles between your palms.
5. Put the toppings in different bowls and roll the truffles till they are evenly coated then place them on greaseproof paper.
6. To make white chocolate truffles, use white chocolate instead of dark.
7. Store the truffles in an airtight container for 3 days or freeze them. If you want to give the truffles as presents, cover them with foil and refrigerate them. Leave them in the fridge until you’re ready to give them out.

20 Blogger Friends Chocolate Truffles Recipes

1. Chocolate Peppermint Truffles – Sweet Pennies from Heaven
2. Mocha Caramel Cookie Dough Truffles – Cake Whiz
3. Healthy Chocolate Fudge Truffles – To Simply Inspire
4. Chocolate Ganache Truffles – Julie is Coco and Cocoa
5. Dark Chocolate Truffles 3 Ways – Fearless Dining
6. Chocolate Pumpkin Truffles – Quirky Inspired
7. Ginger Butterscotch Truffles – Mama Dweeb
8. Pumpkin Pie Truffles – Connoisseursus Veg
9. Peanut Butter Truffles – Simple Stacie
10. Raspberry Chocolate Truffles – The Kitchen is My Playground
11. Easy Chocolate Peppermint Truffles – The Suburban Mom
12. Chocolatey Oreo Mint Truffles – The Thrifty Couple
13. Baileys Almond Truffles – An Italian in My Kitchen
14. Peanut Butter Oreo Truffles – Baking Beauty
15. Chocolate Cookie Truffles – My Heavenly Recipes
16. Irish Cream Coffee Truffles – The Crumby Cupcake
17. Cake Batter Truffles – Snappy Gourmet
18. Coconut Truffles – Cincy Shopper
19. Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Truffles – A Magical Mess
20. White Chocolate Peppermint Truffles – Thrifty and Thriving

Perfecting Your Chocolate Truffle Recipe

To make your chocolate truffles stand out, think outside the box when it comes to choosing coatings and flavorings. You can coat your truffles with coconut flakes, colorful candy sprinkles, chopped nuts, or crushed peppermint candies. If you make many truffles, put them in lovely containers and give as gifts. Your friends won’t forget your kind gesture.

Love Chocolate? 

This chocolate cake recipe is the perfect one to try! How to Make Moist Chocolate Cake

What yummy chocolate desserts will you make this season?

Christmas Dessert: Yule Log – Chocolate and Almond Buche de Noel

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Yule Log Ingredients:

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup cornstarch

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

4 eggs

4 egg yolks

1 teaspoon vanilla

¾ cup granulated sugar

Powdered sugar

1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

½ cup butter, softened

2 teaspoons vanilla

1/3 cup almond slices

4 ½ cups powdered sugar

½ teaspoon almond extract (optional)

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Yule Log Directions:

1. 1. First to make your yule log, you need to preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Next, prepare a 15x10x1-inch pan by greasing it and lining it with waxed paper, which you also need to grease generously.
   2. In a bowl, combine cornstarch, flour and cocoa powder. Then use a fine-mesh sieve and stir these ingredients through it into a medium bowl. Add baking soda and salt.
   3. Take a mixing bowl and beat the eggs, yolks and vanilla using an electric mixer for about 5 minutes on high, until you get a thick mixture with a color of a lemon. Little by little add the granulated sugar continuing to beat the mixture on high for 2-3 minutes, until all the sugar is almost dissolved. Set the electric mixer aside and take a rubber spatula, which should be a large one. Sprinkle one third of the flour mixture over the egg mixture and fold in the flour mixture as gently as you can. Continue with the next one third flour mixture as before, and fold it in, just until its combined. Finish in the same manner with the remaining flour mixture.
   4. Slowly pour the batter in the baking pan and spread it evenly. Bake the cake for about 12 minutes or until it springs back when touched. Take care to not over-bake it, since it needs to keep its elasticity so you can roll it later. While the cake is baking, prepare a clean towel by spreading it out and sprinkling generously powdered sugar on it.
   5. When the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and let it cool in the pan on a wire rack for 2-3 minutes. Now, use a small knife to loosen the edges if necessary and turn the cake out onto the towel. Remove the waxed paper with care.
   6. Now it’s crucial to act fast, but with care. Don’t let the cake get cold or you won’t be able to roll it. So, while it’s still warm, start from a short side of the cake and roll it up together with the towel into a spiral. Let the cake with the towel cool on a wire rack. Watch this video to learn how to roll a cake. Click here to watch the video.

1. While the cake is cooling, move on to prepare the filling/frosting. To do that, simply take a large bowl and use an electric beater on medium to beat the cream cheese, add the butter and the vanilla fluffy. Little by little add the powdered sugar. Take another bowl and pour in half of the cream cheese mixture; this will be the filling. Add the cocoa powder to the remaining cream cheese mixture and beat it in; this will be the frosting.
2. Once the cake has cooled down, carefully unroll it and remove the towel. Spread the white cream cheese frosting on the cake but leave about 1 inch of the edges without filling. Now roll up the cake slowly, starting from a short side. Have a serving platter ready and place the cake with the seam side down, on it. Put the cake into a refrigerator for half an hour. Take the cake out and cut off a 3-inch slice from one end of the cake, diagonally. This part will be a branch on your Buche de Noel. Place this small piece where you want the branch to be.
3. The last step is the decoration. To do that, frost the cake entire with the chocolate cream cheese frosting. You can choose to leave one or all ends of the cake unfrosted, so the white filling shows. Chill if necessary and use a fork or toothpick to create a pattern on the frosting that will make your cake look more like a tree log. Keep it in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.
4. If you like, you can sprinkle powdered sugar before serving, decorate with mushrooms made with meringue or marshmallows or just use chocolate sprinkles.

The main thing to keep in mind making this beautiful Christmas Dessert is to roll the cake while it’s still warm and to not bake it too long. You can make numberless variations to the filling by adding other ingredients in place of the almond slices, like berries, chocolate pieces, or other nuts, flavor it with almond extract or espresso powder or add cocoa powder to make it chocolaty; or you can just use a completely different filling based on whipped cream or chestnut filling. You can be sure that this Christmas Dessert will be a highlight to your Christmas Menu, not only because of its taste, but also because of its unique look.

For more Christmas desserts and holiday cakes, take a look at our dessert archives.

Christmas Dessert: Classic Christmas Pudding Recipe

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Christmas Pudding Recipe Ingredients:

For The Pudding

2 large apples (cooking apples)

3 eggs

1 kg raisins

50 g almonds (blanched)

150 g wheat flour

3 tbsp brandy

250 g butter

100 g sugar (crumbled muscovado, if possible)

200 g candid peel, large pieces

100 g white breadcrumbs (soft)

1 nutmeg

For Brandy Butter

175 g softened unsalted butter

zest of half an orange

5 tbsp icing sugar

4 tbsp brandy

2 pieces of ginger, finely chopped

Christmas Pudding Directions

For The Pudding

1. Peel the apples, deseed them and cut them into bite-sized chunks.
2. Chop the blanched almonds into large irregular chunks.
3. Cut the candied peel into bite sized pieces.
4. Grate three-quarters of the nutmeg and keep aside.
5. For the pudding-now mix apples, eggs, raisins, almonds, flour, brandy, sugar, candied peel, white breadcrumbs and nutmeg powder in a large bowl. Grate the butter stick and mix little by little into the above-prepared mix. Stir well so that the butter folds in properly with the rest of the mixture.
6. Now grease 2, 1,2 ptr bowls generously with butter and add a sheet of bowl-shaped butter paper at the bottom of each. Put the pudding mix in both these bowls and cover with a double layer of butter paper. Tie a string to secure the butter paper and trim off the extra edges.
7. Now spread aluminum foil on a flat surface, keep each bowl on the foil and wrap the foil all the way up. Spread another aluminum on the top of each bowl and wrap it all the way down to form a double wrap. The idea is to make it water tight. Tie another string to bind the foils to the bowl.
8. Now oven-steam the pudding for eight hours, adding water in the base bowl as and when required. Remove from the steam and let the pudding cool over night.
9. Once the pudding is all cold and settled, carefully take it out of it’s wrapping and wrap it in fresh greaseproof paper, foil, and string. This needs to be stored in a cool dry place up until Christmas.

For The Brandy Butter

1. Cream the butter with sugar and orange zest.
2. Add brandy little by little along with chopped ginger. Mix well.
3. Put it in a small container and put aside in a fridge to set. This mixture will stay in the fridge for about a week and in the freezer for about six weeks.

Christmas Pudding Recipe: Putting It All Together

1. On Christmas, oven-steam the pudding again for about one hour. Take it out of the foil and wrapping.
2. To flame the pudding, heat 3 to 4 tbsp brandy in a small pan, pour over the pudding and set to light.
3. Serve along with brandy butter.

Phew! that was some real hard work… stretching over days, but one thing is certain, this Christmas Dessert is all set to amaze everyone. While preparing this dessert I would suggest adding a few chopped walnuts as well or if you want replacing the almonds with walnuts! But that’s up to you. This pudding is enough for about 12 to 16 people but there is no guarantee It might well be over before you know! Do share your thoughts on this Christmas Dessert.

Try Jamie Oliver’s Christmas Pudding from his Nan!

Looking for more Christmas dessert recipes?

Take a look at our:

19 Christmas Cake Recipes to serve after your delicious holiday meal.

20 of Our Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes

What yummy desserts will you make this holiday? Still need inspiration? Take a look at our dessert recipes archives.