My fun alternative to Christmas Pudding

I am a very lucky lady in that my brother is a fantastic cook and likes to entertain and as such Christmas Day is spent surrounded by my family and with minimal effort from me.

However as everyone knows Christmas Day is hard work for the host and I always offer to help and do my bit. This year my brother tasked me with providing an ‘alternative to Christmas Pudding’ and as my humble offering was so well received I thought that I would share it with you.

The chocoholics Christmas Pudding is really easy to make and goes down really well with the kids.

Ingredients.

1 Chocolate Orange
2 Grab bags of Maltesers
1 Small bar of milk chocolate
Ready to roll icing.

Method.

To make just melt  a few squares from the bar of chocolate and dip a Malteser in it. Starting at the top of the orange stick the Malteser to the orange. Repeat this process working your way around the orange. Once the chocolate orange is half coated in Maltesers you may find that they are hard to stick, if this happens just pop the half coated orange in the fridge to harden. You can then turn the orange upside down and carry on.

Once your chocolate orange is fully coated roll out some white ready to roll icing into a circle. Chop around the edges with a knife to create the poured cream design.

Top your pudding with a few holly leaves cut out of green icing and red berries rolled from red icing.

To serve – just pop on a plate and cut with a sharp knife.

This pudding was so easy to make that I wanted to make some more as last minute presents and sent Stu off to buy more chocolate oranges on Christmas Eve, but alas there wasn’t a single one left in town so we had to make do with just the one.

Why not share this with your friends and let me know if you give this a whirl next year.