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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC  More recipes to eat and ingredients to mix ..   No cook yuletide Christmas biscuit puddings.  Enjoy the festive holiday with a cookery session that makes biscuit based chocolate balls, pours and drizzles runny white icing and places red cherry toppings ... Suitable for vegetarians please adapt for vegan diets with dairy free butter, biscuits and chocolate.   Ingredients, tools and methods involved.  Tools needed Small bowl & spoon per cook Knife to chop cherries A zip lock bag for crushing biscuits Wooden rolling pin Clear plastic film wrap Cupcake baking tin / tray Access to a fridge - cool storage point    Dry ingredients Biscuit base for each individual pudding   1 tablespoon of currants or mixed fruit   2 glace cherries   3 plain shortbread, digestive type biscuits or low fat and sugar biscuit crumbs. Method ..   Break up the biscuits into crumbs and small pieces.   Chop the cherries   Add cherry pieces and currants to the dry mix. --   Where a larger quantity of biscuit crumbs are needed place them into a bag and flatten gently with a heavy rolling pin.        Wet ingredients Chocolate sauce for 4 puddings.   4oz Milk chocolate - dairy free where needed.   1oz Butter   2 Tablespoons golden syrup Method ..   Melt all the sauce ingredients together over a low heat.   Pour into a bowl for the children to serve themselves with a 2 spoonfuls of sauce.   Add this wet mix to the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Making a pudding shape ..   Lay a piece of clear food wrap over a small cake tin indent and spooning the pudding mix.   Pull up the food wrap and gently twist at the top watch as the contained mixture forms a ball.   Place in a fridge for a few minutes to set.      Icing Enough for 4 puddings.   3 tbsp Icing Sugar   1 Teaspoon of water   4 red glace cherries Method .. Mix together the confectioners icing sugar and water to a smooth paste.   Drizzle over the top of each pudding and position a cherry on top.   For historical information - Yule plum pudding   Extend pudding making activities with an adapted version of the traditional '5 currant bun song' and a xmas pudding craft outline template  for creative & communicative activities - more on Mischief mouse's template outline page Collage, colour fill, cut and paste.