A low carb and sugar free take on the traditional English Christmas pudding. This easy gluten free, diabetic-friendly Christmas cake is ready in just over 10 minutes!
The single main ingredient of a Christmas or plum pudding is, as we all know, mincemeat. Dried fruit and candied peel is a tricky ingredient for people on a sugar free and low carb diet, as it’s, well, high in sugar and carbs and basically off the menu.
Low Carb Christmas Pudding
Enjoy this low carb Christmas pudding as the crowning glory of your festive meal. It's sugar free, gluten free and suitable for diabetics. Even better, it's ready in just over 10 minutes!
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Keyword low carb christmas pudding, sugar free christmas cake, sugar free christmas pudding
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 6 minutes
Total Time 11 minutes
Servings 4 portions
Calories 271 kcal
Ingredients
100 g / 1 cup almond flour
1 egg
100 g / 1/2 cup shredded carrot
50 g / 1/4 cup blueberries, frozen
50 g / 1/4 cup cherries frozen
10 g small handful crushed walnuts
2 tbsp butter melted
1 tbsp double heavy cream
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cacao powder unsweetened
2 tbsp powdered sweetener or more to taste
2 tsp mixed spice pumpkin spice
2 tsp cinnamon
orange zest from 1/2 orange
optional: glug of brandy
double heavy cream, to serve
Instructions
Blitz the carrot in a food processor or grate them. Add the fruit (I used frozen blueberries and cherries) and chop. Your chopped carrots and fruit combined should fill 1 US measuring cup.
Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Melt the butter.
Add the melted butter and all remaining ingredients to the bowl and stir until combined. If you wish, add a glug of Brandy. Adjust sweetener if needed.
Grease a pyrex glass bowl with butter and fill in the Christmas pudding batter. Microwave at 700W for 6 minutes.
Turn out upside down onto a plate and serve with thick cream.
Recipe Notes
I have tried to keep this pudding as low carb as possible and avoided dried fruit, which arguably are the essence of a Christmas pudding. If you do wish to add dried fruit because it's Christmas and all that, I'd recommend prunes over sultanas - they are much lower in carbs.