Healthy Baked Christmas Pudding – The Healthy Chef

Ingredients

• 450g pitted fresh medjool dates
• 1 whole sweet orange - including skin.
• 2 organic eggs
• 1/4 cup olive oil or good quality melted cultured butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
• 1 ½ cups (250g) raisins
• 1 2/3 cups (250g) organic dried apricots, chopped
• 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
• 3 cups (300g) almond meal
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• pinch sea salt