Festive Sugar Plums
published by Craigz on Dec 9, 2009
These are great to serve with coffee and drinks after dinner and are so simple.
Festive Sugar Plums
Fancy a festive snack after dinner or for supper? Well relax as now you can rustle up this quick and simple recipe to wet your appetite.
They’re literally made in moments!
NB: This recipe makes 12 Sugar Plums.
Recipe:
200g luxury dried fruit
25g ground almonds
2 tablespoons chopped glace ginger
1 dessertspoon orange juice
the grated zest of 1 medium orange
25g ready-made marzipan
2 tablespoons white caster sugar
1 teaspoon mixed spice
12 pistachio nuts
Instructions:
Put the dried fruit, almonds and ginger into a food processor and chop finely (or chop by hand).
Add the orange juice and zest and whiz briefly again.
Now divide both the fruit mixture and the marzipan into 12 pieces and roll into balls.
Cut the fruit balls in half and sandwich them back together with a marzipan ball in the middle.
Mix the caster sugar with the mixed spice and roll balls in the mixture.
Finally cut the pistachios into thin slivers and put them on top of the sugar plums to imitate leaves!
# 1 by joyhyena29
December 9th, 2009 at 9:02 am #
yummy^^
# 2 by Linda Lori
December 9th, 2009 at 10:04 am #
Delicious!
# 3 by diamondpoet
December 9th, 2009 at 10:27 am #
I would like to try this but some of this stuff I have never heard of and I am a cook.
# 4 by metro7
December 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm #
pls kindly pass the plate pls thxs
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# 5 by LovelyWolf
December 10th, 2009 at 12:50 am #
SUGAR PLUMS?! Wow, I didn’t even know they exsisted! Thank you, I shall try this treat!
# 6 by Authoress Terry E. Lyle
December 10th, 2009 at 5:12 pm #
“I want some”
# 7 by atreyee
December 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm #
great one…simply loved it…
# 8 by withheld
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:29 pm #
Sounds nice
# 9 by withheld
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:29 pm #
Sounds nice.
# 10 by KittyK
August 11th, 2011 at 3:10 pm #
Oh my, this is certainly a special treat to enjoy!!!