This makes it crystal clear; during the family Christmas dinner you are not supposed to count the calories you are eating; healthy or not, it doesn’t matter as long as you enjoy it!
The Christmas dinner is all about eating and eating a little bit more, as long as we are having a good time together nothing else matters.

And with this recipe, that’s for sure: if you enjoy desserts and whipped cream this is the dessert for you! It’s a real grandmothers Christmas recipe, it’s been in the family for decades! Not a single year passes without it! Not healthy at all but un-mistakingly part of the Christmas dinner.
So, whilst you are making your shopping list, don’t mind the ingredients, just get them, make the pudding and enjoy this traditional recipe.

60 minutes
Easy
0 – 5 euro pp

Ingredients for 10-12 pers.:

  • 1 lt milk
  • 1 lt whipped cream (non-whipped)
  • 12 sleeves of gelatin
  • 12 table spoons sugar
  • 1 can of pineapple

How to prepare it:

As a note to get started: normally I always vote for fresh ingredients but in this case a fresh pineapple just doesn’t match with the gelatin. Therefore you should use pineapple from a can or you can blanch the pineapple before using it. The pudding really doesn’t taste the way it should if you are using a fresh pineapple.

Put the gelatin in cold water and have it soak for a couple of minutes. Take a big pan to boil the milk with 6 table spoons of the suger. Once it’s boiling, take the pan of the stove. Add the gelatin, leave by leave, whilst stirring until they are dissolved.

Cool down the mixture until it looks like a fat and non-smooth mixture. To cool it down quickly you can put the pan in a bowl of ice-cold water and stir it once in a while. This can take up to approx. 30 minutes.

Whip the unwipped cream together with 6 spoons of sugar until it’s stiff. Cut the pineapple into small pieces.

Add the whipped cream and the pineapple pieces to the milk mixture and stir everything well. Put the pineapple mixture in a nice serving bowl and put it away in the fridge for at least 12 hours to make sure it’s nice and stiff.

The pudding is ideal to prepare the day before Christmas day.