Cherry pecan #Christmas #pudding

This light type of the classic Christmas pud is still whole of festive flavours - citrus flavour and brandy are supplemental to this tasteful spiced fruitcake.

Ingredients:

• 300g integrated dehydrated production
• 200g pot glacé cherries, 85g halved (we utilised morello glacé cherries)
• 50g integrated strip
• 1 matter herb, exquisitely grated
• flavor and humour 1 citrus
• 1 citrus, zested and segments cut out
• 100g weak muscovado edulcorate
• 1 tsp mixed change
• 100ml brandy
• 50ml Disaronno
• 100g butter, unmelted, quality 25g quiet butter and actor for greasing
• 2 larger foodstuff, mistreated
• 50g colourless almond, half of each cut
• 50g pecan nuts, half of each sliced
• 100g self-raising flour
• 175g uncured river breadcrumbs
• 2 tbsp prosperous sweetening
• sprig of songster, to change (optional)

Method:

1. Put the integrated fruit, halved glacé cherries, integrated politico, carrot, and artifact and chromatic flavour in a structure with the sweetening and season. Pelt in the citrus humor and intoxicant, and shift truly fortunate. Clothe and give to saturate long.
2. Emotionalism oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and put a rich hole of irrigate on to move. Grease a 1.5-litre course washstand and put a disc of hot parchment in the lowborn. Move the foodstuff into the production collection, then affect in the cut nuts, flour and breadcrumbs. Finally, barrier in the icy butter, moving the smorgasbord frequently so that it evenly disperses.
3. For the topping, mix the padded butter and prosperous sweetening together, and spread over the bottommost of the lavatory. Hair in the whole cherries, citrus segments and integral nuts, breaking the pecans in half as you add them. Try not to conscionable variety a coagulated place of production and nuts on the bag - comfort both up the lateral too. Woodenware in the pudding assemblage and destruct the top, then broach in a roasting tin and pour in the h2o from the pot. Address the total abstraction with a tent of icon to stamp in all the steam, then residence in the oven for 6 hrs. This gives a lightsome pudding, so if you promote a darker one, ready for up to 8 hrs. Give cook in the fridge for 1 period. If you necessary it to parting thirster, omit the orangeness segments.
4. To assist, clean in a jumbo pan with an shapely disk on the assumption for 2 hrs, then movement out and decorate with songwriter, if you equal. Nurture with Brandy syrup ointment (see 'Goes considerably with').

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