Have you started planning for Christmas? The food I mean rather than the presents.
If you want to have a change from a Christmas pudding, or are catering for a crowd and want an alternative to add to your menu, how about a slow cooker gingerbread pudding?
Inspired by the flavours of sticky gingerbread cake, but served as a steamed pudding, this dessert is bound to please a crowd.
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Ginger pudding
A traditional steamed pudding spiced with ginger and other festive spices and drizzled with lashings of golden syrup, this would make a great winter dessert for a cold day as well a being a festive favourite.
Use your slow cooker to steam the pudding and your kitchen won’t be filled with steam, plus you will have an extra ring free on the hob for your Christmas trimmings and sides.
Ingredients
Here’s what you will need for this recipe, get the quantities in the recipe card further down:
- butter
- dark brown sugar
- golden syrup
- ground ginger
- ground nutmeg
- ground cinnamon
- flour
- eggs
Method
- Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Stir in the golden syrup.
- Sift in the spices and flour and mix well. Add the eggs one by one.
- Put the mixture in a buttered pudding bowl (I used a 1 litre pudding basin).
- Cover the top of the bowl with cling film.
- Fill the slow cooker pot with an inch of boiling water, then place the pudding bowl in the pot. Replace the lid and steam the pudding for 2.5 hours on high.
- Invert the pudding bowl, and tip the pudding onto a serving plate.
- •Drizzle over golden syrup and serve with custard or ice cream.
Dig in while it is hot and add a jug of custard on the side, with the sweet golden syrup balanced by the warming flavour of ginger.
There’s no need to wait for Christmas though, we enjoyed this for a weekend treat too on a wintry day. Just look at the shine on that golden syrup, you could dive right in!
More steamed puddings
For more steamed pudding ideas, check these out:
- my slow cooker cranberry and vanilla steamed pudding
- slow cooker syrup sponge
- Snowdon pudding from Tin and Thyme
- slow cooker orange and almond steamed pudding with toffee sauce from Supergolden Bakes
Inside, the pudding is soft and the syrup soaks into the centre when you pour it on top of the warm cake. It won’t get dry when you steam the pudding, and the texture is just perfect.
Slow cooker desserts
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Recipe
Slow Cooker Gingerbread Pudding
Ingredients
- 175 g butter softened
- 100 g dark brown sugar
- 65 g golden syrup
- 2 tsp ginger
- 0.5 tsp nutmeg
- 0.5 tsp cinnamon
- 175 g self-raising flour
- 3 eggs
- golden syrup a little, to drizzle over the top
Equipment
Instructions
- Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Stir in the golden syrup.175 g butter, 100 g dark brown sugar, 65 g golden syrup
- Sift in the spices and flour and mix well. Add the eggs one by one.2 tsp ginger, 0.5 tsp nutmeg, 0.5 tsp cinnamon, 175 g self-raising flour, 3 eggs
- Put the mixture in a buttered pudding bowl (I used a 1 litre pudding basin).. Cover the top of the bowl with cling film.
- Fill the slow cooker pot with an inch of boiling water, then place the pudding bowl in the pot. Replace the lid and steam the pudding for 2.5 hours on high.
- Invert the pudding bowl, and tip the pudding onto a serving plate.
- Drizzle over golden syrup and serve with custard or ice cream.golden syrup
Laura Spicer says
I’ve made this a couple of times and it’s delicious! This Christmas we’re going to be out and about a lot- do you think I could make the mixture ahead of time and keeping it in the fridge for a day or two before cooking? TIA
bakingqueen74 says
No it would need to be cooked right away unfortunately. Glad you like it!
Shirley Addams says
Hi, this looks great. Is there a substitute for the syrup used? Would maple syrup work? Thanks
bakingqueen74 says
Hi Shirley. Thanks, hope you try it! Could you explain why you need to substitute, is it because golden syrup is not available where you are? If so, hopefully this article about substitutes will help.