Saltaire Triple Chocolate Stout Christmas Pudding

Christmas is always a super busy time at Thomas the Baker preparing the mince pies, Christmas puddings and Christmas cakes. They start planning how much of everything we’re going to need right back in June, with meetings to decide on the amounts of sweet mince for the pies and to start preparing the Christmas puddings. There are even a number of people who volunteer up their skills to help out with the Christmas rush. I’ve been recruiting a few times over the Christmas period just to pop lids on mince pie! They even get the managers out from behind their desks lidding mince pies and folding up boxes!

And this year, we’ve decided to make it even more difficult for ourselves but all the sweeter for you by adding another Christmas delight to our list: another Christmas Pudding! But this is no ordinary Christmas pudding – a lot of thought, time and effort has gone into this one, and it’s made using unique ingredients. It’s a Saltaire Triple Chocolate Stout Christmas Pudding and is currently available in the Seasonal section of the website for only £6.50!

Our ‘normal’ Christmas puddings (albeit luxury ones!), we’re very proud of already – they’ve won three different awards, one of which is the prestigious Gold Star at the Great Taste Awards. But this one is a new unique twist on that. Created with Jeff Baker, who has held a Michelin Star for 10 consecutive years and previously was given the title of Yorkshire Chef of the Year, it has a generous splash of Saltaire Brewery Triple Chocoholic Stout and Belgian chocolate chips added to the recipe. It might sound a little different to what you’re used to, but trust me, it’s good. And I’m not even a big fan of Christmas pudding!

It’s definitely at least worth a try, and if you can’t resist getting another one, well, you’ll have surprised me! So go on, give it a go – you won’t regret it!

PS: And following up on our last post on Mince Pies – my dad, Simon, was featured on BBC Radio York talking about their award in Good Housekeeping! If you follow the link to the website, then skip to around 2 hours 44 minutes, you’ll hear him!