Nigella Lawson's Christmas pudding is a festive favourite for many, and it's not hard to see why. It ticks all the boxes for a holiday dessert: rich, deeply spiced, and surprisingly light. While some ...

Christmas pudding isn’t for everyone and, even though I have faith in my own pudding’s ability to convert, there’s no point nagging or, indeed, fighting against real, die-hard antipathies. Besides, I ...

A warm, soft and squidgy cake, it is both embracingly cosy and almost regally sumptuous. You could serve it just with crème fraîche, a little bit of tang to offset the pudding-cake’s richness, but I ...