Xmas Pudding(cake)recipe

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Anja,

Is a Xmas Pudding Cake a mound shaped cake with lots of dried fruit

and brandy mixed in? Ok here's my shot at a vegan recipe.

Basic vanilla pudding:

1 pint plain amazake

3 TB kudzu or arrowroot

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 teaspoon ginger juice

1/4 tsp nutmeg or coriander

Dilute kudzu or arrowroot in the smallest amount of water possible,

when completely disolved ,add amazake and slowly bring the mixture to

a boil,s tirring constantly. One or two minutes after the mixture

thickens completely, turn off the heat. Cool several minutes and add

vanilla,ginger,and other spices. Chill pudding or eat warm.

Now if I was to go on to make a xmas pudding cake. I'd make a double

recipe of pudding but flavor it with some rehydrated diced dried

apples and apricots and raisins. I'd make a cake batter using the

pudding, by adding whole wheat and millet flour with baking soda and

salt. The amazake will make it sweet.I'd add some fresh persimmon, a

few diced dates, some wheat germ, allspice, cinnamon.

To get the mound shape I would bake the cake in a stainless steel

mixing bowl. You know...your basic pudding-basin haircut bowl.

I'd probably make several smaller mound cakes rather than one large

one so I could give em away as a xmas gifts. I might pour a bit of

brandy on a special one destined to Anja.

Please, help me imagine this recipe. What else do we need or what

options would help make Anja's xmas pudding (cake) special? What can

we do?

We have a few weeks still to think up recipes.

1st annual Vegan-Macrobiotic Xmas Pudding (Cake) Recipe contest

begins!

Anja, will you be the judge?

What else will be serving at this xmas banquet?

Shall we bake a ring or coin into the cake to see who'll get the good

luck? Does anybody know more about that tradition?

Happy Turkey Liberation Day!