Slow Cooker Mincemeat Pudding

My slow cooker mincemeat pudding is simple to make, can be made at the last minute if you missed Stir Up Sunday, and is full of festive flavours!

An alternative to Christmas pudding

This slow cooker mincemeat pudding is ideal if you aren’t a fan of the traditional Christmas pudding with its deep rich flavours and dried fruit. It makes a great alternative.

This lightly spiced pudding with added mincemeat is great for mince pie lovers and still has that Christmassy vibe.

My children don’t like Christmas pudding at all so we tend not to have it, and this is a much lighter version which is easy to make.

No 8 hours steaming in a pan like normal Christmas pudding needed here! It takes the same time to make a normal slow cooker dessert, 2 hours.

Much easier to fit that in when you are busy fitting in all the Christmas preparations!

An everyday winter dessert

It also works well as a winter dessert for everyday, and can be enjoyed with custard midweek or with your Sunday roast too.

Whatever the day, this steamed pudding will have you dreaming of snow covered hills, opening presents and Santa leaving footprints on the roof!

What is mincemeat

If you aren’t from Great Britain or a place where you traditionally eat mince pies at Christmas then you might be wondering what mincemeat is.

There is no meat in here, mincemeat is a mixture of dried fruit, candied peel, apple, sugar, spices, suet and sometimes alcohol.

Originally mincemeat did contain meat, usually beef. It still contains suet fat now but often this is vegetarian suet instead of beef suet.

We have it in mince pies at Christmas in the United Kingdom (it is also popular in other Commonwealth countries like Australia and Canada I believe too). You can but mincemeat that is made with amaretto, gin or brandy too.

You can also make your own mincemeat, I like this boozy gin mincemeat from Claire from Foodie Quine, and this slow cooker mincemeat with ginger from Janice at Farmersgirl Kitchen.

Step by step instructions

Step 1. Make up the spiced sponge pudding mixture, butter a pudding basin and spoon half of the mixture into the basin.

Step 2. Add three tablespoons of mincemeat on top of the sponge mixture.

Step 3. Marble the mincemeat into the pudding using a knife, skewer or toothpick. By doing this it makes the mincemeat distribute more evenly in the pudding.

Step 4. Put the remaining sponge pudding mixture on top.

Step 5. Add three more tablespoons of mixture on top of the sponge mixture.

Step 6. Marble in the mincemeat again using a knife, skewer or toothpick.

Step 7. Cover the pudding basin with foil, pour some boiling water into the base of the slow cooker pot and put the pudding basin into the pot. Put on the lid of the slow cooker and cook on high for 2 hours.

Step 8. Check the pudding is cooked through in the centre using a toothpick, skewer or knife. Remove the pudding basin from the slow cooker and serve hot with custard, brandy butter or cream.

More steamed puddings 

• Syrup sponge
• Cranberry and vanilla steamed pudding
• Gingerbread pudding
• Cloutie dumpling in the slow cooker from Farmersgirl Kitchen
• Blood orange and ginger steamed pudding from Domestic Gothess
• Apple and blackberry steamed pudding from Fuss Free Flavours

More Christmas recipes for your slow cooker

Make sure you check out my Christmas slow cooker post full of edible gifts, sweet treats, Christmas dinner recipes and more, all made in your slow cooker!