Fruit Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Core and chop the pears and apples, if needed. Chop the apricots and prunes roughly.
• Stew the fruit in the juice with the spices on low heat for 30 minutes. Drain and reserve the liquid. Set aside 1/3 cup fruit.
• Measure the liquid and add more juice if needed to make 2 cups.
• Stir the tapioca into the juice in a saucepan. Let sit for 5 minutes. Bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes while stirring constantly. Take off heat and let sit for 20 minutes. Combine with fruit, except the 1/3 cup, and chill.
• Whip the cream with the vanilla and whatever you are using for sweetening until stiff but not dry.
• In a large clear glass bowl, or in individual glasses, layer the chilled fruit pudding and the whipped cream, ending with the whipped cream. Decorate with reserved fruit.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350, and while it preheats, place 1 stick of butter or margerine in a 9 X 13 or smaller deeper baking dish, in the oven until butter melts.(9x13 makes a nice size, but it comes out kind of thin.).
• Mix sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, and milk together, by hand until smooth.
• In pan with melted butter, add batter, making sure it covers most of the bottom of the pan.
• Drain fruit, and spoon on top of batter evenly, so batter is evenly covered with fruit.
• Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Steps:

• Beat pudding mix and milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Refrigerate 5 min.
• Spoon into 4 dessert dishes.
• Top with fruit cocktail.

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• Bring out the juices: Wash fruit and gently dry on kitchen paper - keep strawberries separate. Put sugar and 3 tbsp water into a large pan. Gently heat until sugar dissolves - stir a few times. Bring to a boil for 1 min, then tip in the fruit (not strawberries). Cook for 3 mins over a low heat, stirring 2-3 times. The fruit will be softened, mostly intact and surrounded by dark red juice. Put a sieve over a bowl and tip in the fruit and juice.
• Line the bowl with cling film and prepare the bread: Line the 1.25-litre basin with cling film as this will help you to turn out the pudding. Overlap two pieces of cling film in the middle of the bowl as it's easier than trying to get one sheet to stick to all of the curves. Let the edges overhang by about 15cm. Cut the crusts off the bread. Cut 4 pieces of bread in half, a little on an angle, to give 2 lopsided rectangles per piece. Cut 2 slices into 4 triangles each and leave the final piece whole.
• Build the pud: Dip the whole piece of bread into the juice for a few secs just to coat. Push this into the bottom of the basin. Now dip the wonky rectangular pieces one at a time and press around the basin's sides so that they fit together neatly, alternately placing wide and narrow ends up. If you can't quite fit the last piece of bread in it doesn't matter, just trim into a triangle, dip in juice and slot in. Now spoon in the softened fruit, adding the strawberries here and there as you go.
• Let flavours mingle then serve: Dip the bread triangles in juice and place on top - trim off overhang with scissors. Keep leftover juice for later. Bring cling film up and loosely seal. Put a side plate on top and weight down with cans. Chill for 6 hrs or overnight. To serve, open out cling film then put a serving plate upside-down on top and flip over. serve with leftover juice, any extra berries and cream.

Steps:

• Mix juice and extract until blended. Drizzle over cake cubes in large bowl; toss to evenly coat.
• Beat pudding mixes and milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Stir in 1 cup COOL WHIP.
• Place half the cake cubes in 12 dessert dishes; top with layers of half each of the berries and pudding mixture. Repeat layers.
• Refrigerate 2 hours. Top with remaining COOL WHIP just before serving.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine peaches, pineapples, and vanilla pudding mix.
• This includes the juices from the cans.
• Mix well until pudding is dissolved.
• Stir in strawberries, banana, blueberries, grapes, and sugar if desired.
• Chill.

Steps:

• Mix all batter ingredients well with wooden spoon.
• Pour into large greased pie dish.
• Bake at 350F for 40 - 50 minutes.
• Boil together topping ingredients for 5 minutes.
• As pudding comes out of oven stab it all over with a knife and pour topping over.

Steps:

• Beat pudding mix and orange juice in large bowl with whisk 2 min.
• Add fruit; toss to coat.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Spread the fruit out in a medium baking dish. Make the batter according to pack instructions and add the caster sugar.
• Pour the batter over the fruit and bake for 20-25 mins until golden and set. Dust with icing sugar, if you like, and serve hot or warm.

Steps:

• In large bowl, carefully beat whipped topping, sugar and sour cream with mixer until stiff.
• Add instant pudding, milk and continue beating until well blended.
• Add fruit.
• Chill.
• Sprinkle with coconut, if desired.

Steps:

• Pour milk into medium bowl. Add dry pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes.
• Let stand 5 minutes.
• Stir in fruit.

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• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Cut 2 x 5cm-wide strips of parchment and lay them up the sides of a 1.2-litre pudding basin, making a cross on the bottom of the dish. Make sure there is some overhang to help you release the pudding when cooked. Grease again. Lay a square of foil and equal-size square of greased parchment on top of each other, folding a pleat down the middle.
• To make the filling, chop plums, apples and pears into 1cm cubes and place in a bowl with the blackberries. Add butter, broken into bits, 125g of sugar and cinnamon. Stir and put to the side.
• Sift flour into mixing bowl. Mix in suet, remaining sugar and zest. Add a few drops of water, working it through with a cutlery knife, then keep adding water until you have soft dough. Using your hand, bring the dough together into a smooth ball. Tip out onto a lightly floured surface. Tear the dough into ¾ and ¼ parts. Roll the larger portion into a rough circle, approx 20cm. Drop into the basin and press up the sides until you have a slight overhang. Tip the filling into the pastry case. Roll out the remaining ¼ to make a lid, then press the pastry edges together to firmly seal. Tuck the protruding flaps of parchment down onto pastry.
• Put foil/parchment on top (foil side up), pressing and squeezing the foil round the edges to make a fitted lid. Tie string securely around the lid, making a handle with extra doubled-up string. Put in a deep roasting tin, then pour boiling water to 1-2cm below foil line. Cook for 2 hrs, topping up water level if it gets too low. Unwrap, release edges using parchment tabs and invert onto a plate.