Low Carb Keto Christmas Pudding

Name: Keto Christmas Pudding
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 6 min
Total time: 11 min
Ingredients: 100 g / 1 cup almond flour; 1 egg (rom temperature); 100 g / 1/2 cup shredded carrot; 50 g / 1/4 cup blueberries, frozen; 50 g / 1/4 cup cherries (frozen); 10 g small handful crushed walnuts; 2 tbsp butter (melted); 1 tbsp heavy cream (double cream); 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp cacao powder (unsweetened); 2 tbsp powdered sweetener (or more to taste); 2 tsp mixed spice (pumpkin spice ***see notes); 2 tsp cinnamon; orange zest from 1/2 orange (grated); optional: glug of brandy

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A low carb and sugar free take on the traditional English Christmas pudding. My easy gluten-free, diabetic Christmas pudding is ready in just over 10 minutes!

This keto Christmas pudding recipe has been on my website since 2017 and I make it every year without fail.

One serving is 8 net carbs per person and the recipe comes together in just over 10 minutes.

10 minutes? Yes! I made it in the microwave. We're talking instant Christmas gratification.

Alongside my keto mince pies, this low carb Christmas pudding recipe is a holiday fave of many readers. Here are a couple of reviews:

"This is the best Christmas pudding I have ever eaten! I baked mine in ramekins in the oven for 35 minutes and they turned out perfectly." (Kristy)

"Tried this recipe today, added some dried cranberries as well as the other fruit and baked in the oven at 150c but it did take around 50 minutes, but was well worth the wait, it was absolutely delicious & so very moist." (Vanessa)

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Ingredients

The single main ingredient of a Christmas or plum pudding is, as we all know, mincemeat. Dried fruit and candied peel are a tricky ingredient for people on a sugar free and low carb diet, as it's, well, high in sugar and carbs and basically off the menu.

This moist Christmas pudding uses some clever substitutions. Are you ready?

Here are the ingredients I used:

Almond flour. First of all, I replaced the flour with blanched ground almonds. This was the obvious one - I've made LOADS of desserts low carb by making this simple swap.
Sweetener - Instead of sugar, I used my go-to sweetener erythritol. Monk fruit, allulose, Bocha Sweet or Swerve all work as well.
Egg
Butter and heavy cream
Blueberries and cherries. Frozen. I'm using these in place of the mincemeat or raisins. Both have plenty of natural sweetness and we're keeping close to the traditional Xmas pud colour scheme.
Carrot. To bulk up the recipe. Needs to be shredded. Carrot is lower in carbs and sugar than apple, which is often used in traditional recipes.
Cocoa powder. I threw in a spoon of cacao powder to make the pud nice and dark. Coffee would work nicely here, too. In one of my earlier attempts I had added double the amount of cacao, but found the result too chocolate-cakey.
Spices and flavor. This cake is brimming with Christmas flavours! I added orange zest, cinnamon and pumpkin spice mix (includes nutmeg, allspice, ginger).
Baking powder - Check that it is fresh.
Walnuts - Crushed. Pecans would also work well.
Brandy. A glug of brandy takes the recipe to the next level.

A tiny word of wisdom here: I made this particular specimen late morning and had a slice for breakfast. This might NOT be a good idea depending what you have planned on doing after eating your pudding.

I am a lightweight when it comes to alcohol and felt wonderfully warm and fizzy for a while. I cannot rule out that I imagined this, but perhaps 6 minutes in the microwave is not enough to burn off the booze.

Instructions

It's just a few simple steps to make a sugar free Christmas Pudding. You don't even need to use an electric mixer - a fork is enough:

Step 1: Grate the carrots. Add the chopped fruit, orange zest and optional brandy. Set aside.

Step 2: In a second bowl, whisk the egg, then add the melted butter and cream.

Step 3: Mix the dry ingredients - almond flour, sweetener, spices, baking powder. Then, add to the egg mixture.

Step 4: Last, stir in the carrot and fruit mix.

Step 5: Grease a separate bowl with butter and fill in the Christmas pudding batter. Microwave at 700W for 6 minutes.

Katrin's Tips

Option to soak the walnuts in Brandy overnight - this softens the nuts.

In recent years, I have also added sugar free dried cranberries to the recipe. These are also wonderful soaked, because it makes them lovely and plump.

Recipe FAQs

Does it taste like regular Christmas pudding?

Low carb Christmas pudding does not taste exactly like a traditional Christmas pudding. But it does come pretty close.

Can I add dried fruit?

Of course. The best option are my sugar free dried cranberries. Or go for prunes. They are lower in carbs than dates, sultanas or currants. I think if you would add 1 prune per person you could probably taste a difference without sending your blood sugar sky-high.

Can you bake it in the oven?

Yes. Bake the pudding at 180C / 350F and around 30 minutes. Some readers have doubled the batch and baked a larger version which took 50-60 minutes.

Can you steam it?

I have not tried steaming it myself. But a reader used her metal pudding basin and steamed it in the pressure cooker, which worked well.