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Christmas pudding tart
Photo: Sorin Gheorghita

Christmas pudding tart

35 ingredients 1 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

Christmas pudding gets a French makeover - it's mixed with pastry cream to fill a tart case, then topped with almond-flavoured crumble.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1346
Calories
36g
Protein
66g
Fat
157g
Carbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Pine Nut 1 oz (28g) 191
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Mascarpone 2 tbsp (28g) 120
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Cranberry 1 cup raw (100g) 46
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Almond 1 almond (1.2g) 7
Sauce not in our table 0
Pudding not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 270g/9½oz plain flour
  • 150g/5½oz unsalted butter
  • 50g/1¾oz ground almonds
  • 1 lemon or orange
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 100g/3½oz icing sugar
  • 1 free-range egg
  • 1 free-range egg yolk
  • 175ml/6fl oz milk
  • 75g/2½oz double cream
  • ½ vanilla pod
  • 90g/3¼oz caster sugar
  • 75g/2½oz free-range egg yolks
  • 15g/½oz cornflour
  • 15g/½oz plain flour
  • 15g/½oz butter
  • 150g/5½oz ground almonds
  • 115g/4oz demerara sugar
  • 175g/6oz unsalted butter
  • 85g/3oz plain flour
  • 1 lemon
  • 100g/3½oz blanched almonds
  • 25g/1oz pine nuts
  • 125g/4½oz icing sugar
  • 30ml/1fl oz orange liqueur
  • 250g/9oz cranberry sauce
  • 25g/1oz caster sugar
  • 125g/4½oz mascarpone
  • 100ml/3½fl oz double cream
  • 25g/1oz icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp almond-flavoured Italian liqueur, such as Amaretto
  • pinch freshly grated nutmeg
  • 250g/9oz Christmas pudding
  • 30g/1oz sliced almonds
  • , for dusting icing sugar

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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