Dairy- and Gluten-Free Christmas Pudding Recipe

Ingredients

• 150g of prunes, roughly chopped
• 100g of dried cherries
• 100g of sultanas
• 75g of currants
• 50g of stem ginger, in syrup, roughly chopped
• 150g of Armagnac, plus extra for flaming
• 100g of rice flour
• 60g of ground almonds
• 60g of quinoa flakes, (or polenta or gluten-free oats)
• 1 tsp gluten-free baking powder
• 125g of vegetable fat, frozen
• 75g of rhubarb, fairly finely chopped
• 150g of coconut sugar, or soft brown sugar
• 3 eggs, large
• 1/2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
• 2 tsp vanilla paste, (or seeds from 2 vanilla pods)
• 1 orange, zest only
• 3 tbsp of date syrup, (or syrup from the jar of stem ginger)
• 25g of flaked almonds