CHRISTMAS COCOA PUDDING

CHRISTMAS COCOA  PUDDING

Prep time:30 min, plus overnight soaking

Cook time:3 hrs 30 min

Serves:6-8

Elements

·     350 gm elegant combined dry fruit

·     100g ready-to-eat dry figs, sliced fingernail sized

·     100ml resolute, rather cocoa stout

·     60 g tasteless butter, board temperature

·     60 gm brownish Muscovy sugar

·     60 gm legible honey

      2 big eggs , board temperature, baffled

·     60 gm complain flour

·     125 gm fresh snowy breadcrumbs

·     ½ tsp basis combined spidery 

·     ¼ tsp scraped nutmeg 

·     ½ tsp basis cinnamon 

·     1 moderate  apple , cored and scraped

·     10 gm sliced sweet almond

·     100 gm pine nuts

·     100 gm black cocoa, preferably Divine

Formula

1. Assign the dry fruit, sliced figs and the portly into a blending pipe bowl. Bustle fine then binding with clingfilm and allow to pluck as 8-12 hours, or nightlong - whenever potential, apply the com mixture the left over bustle at times.

2. The following daytime, baffle the butter with the sugar and honey in a big combining pipe bowl, applying an electrical whip or woody spoonful. Gradually drill in the eggs, baffling cured later each plus and bend in the flour till equally com mixed.

3. In different bowl, blend the breadcrumbs with all the spices, scraped apple, sweet almond and pine nut. While soundly blended, ado into the egg mix with the crocked fruit and any liquified in the bowl.

4. Burst or chop up the cocoa into little bits and ado into the pudding mix,making sure the cocoa is evenly circulated.

5. Spoonful into a 1.1 liter buttered pudding washbowl. Solicit the pipe bowl softly about the act crown to eject some pockets then cover up with a stratum of greased imper viable paper folded in the midst to leave elaboration, then baffle (or apply a snap-on palpable). Bind securely with marooning coil the draw over the lead to brand a cover as light r emotion.

6. Steam or boil the pudding in a pan of stewing water: base the bowlful about an shapely dish then decant in stewing water from the boiler so the water descends 2/3  dorm the side of the bowl.

7. Simmer lightly as 3½ hrs, leading high with stewing water at times so the pan does not boil dry out. Carry away the bowl from the pan and while stale cross with refresh paper and foil. Storage in the fridge as adequate to month.

8. To serve steam or boil since ahead as two hrs.Come out onto a disc to serve.