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Spiced orange cake with plum sauce and Christmas pudding ice cream
Photo: Ian Dooley

Spiced orange cake with plum sauce and Christmas pudding ice cream

18 ingredients Serves 6-8 openrecipes

A wonderful dessert for Boxing day that's packed with festive flavours but a little lighter than most Christmas fare. Plus, the ice cream is a great way to use up any leftover Christmas pudding.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1003
Calories
30g
Protein
32g
Fat
150g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
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
Plum 1 medium (66g) 30
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Almond 1 almond (1.2g) 7
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
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

  • 375g/13oz milk
  • 375g/13oz cream
  • 150g/5½oz egg yolks
  • 110g/4oz sugar
  • 25g/1oz glycerine (optional)
  • 500g/1lb 2oz crumbled Christmas pudding
  • 3 oranges
  • 300g/10½oz ground almonds
  • 300g/10½oz caster sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 7 free-range eggs
  • 1.5kg/3lb 5oz plums
  • 150g/5½oz butter
  • 100g/3½oz sugar
  • 1 cinnamon
  • 1 lemon, juice only

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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