Mini Christmas Pudding Cupcakes with Custard Flavoured Icing

Impress your family and friends with these cute Mini Christmas Puddings. These Mini Christmas Pudding Cupcakes are mini upside-down chocolate cupcakes with soured cream, ground almonds and sour cherries inside, then topped off with a custard flavoured glacé/glaze icing, and a sprig of edible holly to complete the festive picture.

Have you ever noticed that around this time of the year all the festive party foods tend to get smaller and smaller?

I went grocery shopping today and saw tons of party foods but in miniature style. Mini spring rolls, mini cheesecakes, mini… well, everything!

What I can’t workout though is whether major supermarket chains do this because miniature foods are…

1. In high demand by consumers.
2. They can make more money simply by making everything smaller so technically, you’re not getting as much value for money, and they make more profit.

But mini foods are way too darn cute. Which is probably why it’s a bit of both.

And these Mini Christmas Pudding cupcakes are definitely way too cute to pass up on.

Let’s imagine for a minute you’re hosting a Christmas party. Everyone has been fed a traditional Christmas dinner (and if you’re in the UK, that would be roast turkey with all the trimmings – yum!), and you’re getting ready to bring out the desserts.

Then out you come with these cute as a button mini Christmas puddings (which are really cupcakes in disguise). Your guests will be wowed and will probably ask where you managed to pick up cute mini Christmas puddings!

And of course you’ll probably brag that you made them – go on, brag away! If you’re in for even more brownie points, you could also mention that everything on these mini Christmas puddings are edible too. 🙂

What I love most about these mini Christmas pudding cupcakes, apart from the obvious miniature size, is their flavour. They’re not just average chocolate upside-down cupcakes. They’re better than real Christmas puddings in my opinion (probably because I hate Christmas pudding anyway). They’re made with ground almonds, sour cherries, and dark chocolate – not a cocoa ‘chocolate’, we’re talking real chocolate here with some additional cocoa powder too for that extra chocolate kick.

And to top off the festiveness, the glacé icing is flavoured like custard too. We couldn’t have a Christmas pud without custard, could we? Not forgetting the sprig of holly on top to complete the holiday festiveness.

These Mini Christmas puddings are so easy to make and can even be made ahead of time and frozen until you need them. The only preparation needed is to create the holly sprigs ahead of time – I would recommend at least one day for drying though. Once the holly sprigs are dry, they will last for months on end in an airtight container. 

However, if you don’t have the tools needed for creating the holly sprigs, you can easily substitute for real holly sprigs, or even bay leaves for the leaves and red M&Ms or sixlets or any other red small round sweets/candy for the berries.

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