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Festive Christmas Pudding and Holiday Cake Recipes

Christmas Pudding Cakes are a delightful treat to make during the festive season, and they’re great fun for bakers of all ages—especially since these are chocolate cakes.

Each cake is roughly the size of a large cupcake, making them perfect for individual servings.

For guests who aren’t keen on traditional Christmas pudding, these chocolate Christmas Pudding Cakes are a wonderful alternative.

I made these using a simple chocolate Victoria sponge batter. They’re quick and easy to bake and look charming once decorated. The decorating didn’t take long—I completed all of them in about 40 minutes. With a few helpers you could finish them well within an hour.

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Christmas Pudding Cakes

Sisley White

Chocolate Christmas Pudding Cakes are a festive and easy-to-make alternative to traditional puddings—perfect for parties and family gatherings.
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Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Decorating Time
45 mins
Total Time
1 hr 10 mins

Course
Bakes, Cakes
Cuisine
American, English, International

Servings
12 half sphere cakes
Calories
200 kcal

Ingredients

  • 120 g unsalted butter
  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 120 g self-raising flour
  • 0.5 teaspoon baking powder
  • 10 g cocoa powder
  • a few drops of milk if the mixture is too stiff
  • white sugarpaste
  • green sugarpaste
  • red sugarpaste

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 160ºC fan.
  • Grease a half-sphere cake mould.
  • Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add the eggs and mix until combined.
  • Sieve in the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder, then fold into the mixture until smooth.
  • If the batter is too thick, add a few drops of milk to loosen it slightly.
  • Bake for 15 minutes, then allow the cakes to cool in the mould before removing.

Nutrition

Calories: 200kcal

Please note that the nutrition information above is approximate and provided as a guideline.

Keyword Christmas Pudding Cakes
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I greased the mould lightly so the cakes wouldn’t stick. I filled each half with a heaped tablespoon of batter.

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Once cooled, I used a large flower plunger cutter to cut the white icing piece that forms the top of the Christmas pudding. I used ready-made white sugarpaste.

To secure each cake to the small silver boards I used a little buttercream, which I also used to glue the white sugarpaste to the cake.img 2800 3

At one point I worried they might not work out, but I kept going and they turned out beautifully!

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Next, I cut out the holly leaves using plunger cutters—the largest size available. Once cut, I attached each leaf with a tiny blob of buttercream.

decorating the little Christmas Pudding Cakes with stamped out holly leaves

They look so cute!

little Christmas Pudding Cakes topped with white icing and cut out holly leaves

Finally, I rolled tiny pieces of red sugarpaste into berries and attached them on top. Tada—my little Christmas puddings. I think these are the best things I’ve baked and decorated all year!

Holly berries and holly leaves on the Christmas Pudding Cakes

Yum. Merry Christmas.

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