Claire Ptak’s alternative Christmas puddings

Does ‘Christmas pudding’ have to come in only one form? This year, take traditional flavours – dried fruit, booze, spices – and shape them into seasonal sweet goods with a differenceSweet aromatics infuse the winter months: ginger, nutmeg, clove, clementine, spiced rum and brandy. Their exotic, warming flavours wrap around you like a warm blanket. My California blood almost curdled when I was first faced with Christmas pudding, but now I crave the concentrated sweetness o