These super sweet, sticky gingerbread pudding dumplings are a delicious festive twist on the classic Aussie golden syrup dumpling! The perfect easy Christmas dessert, if you want to save even more time, mix up the dry ingredients the day before. Serve with a generous scoop of vanilla icecream.
Ingredients You’ll Need
This recipe is super easy to pull together, and everything comes together into a sweet, sticky festive treat. You can grab all the exact measurements in the recipe card at the bottom.
- Brown sugar
- Ground ginger
- Plant-based margarine
- Golden syrup
- Water
- Plain flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Plant-based milk (soy or oat)
- Spices: cinnamon, mixed spice, nutmeg
Instructions
Follow along with this step-by-step guide to make your Gingerbread pudding dumplings. You’ll find all the exact times, temperatures, and measurements in the recipe card below.
Step one: Combine brown sugar, ground ginger, margarine, golden syrup, and water in a large pot. Bring to a gentle simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally.
Step two: In a mixing bowl, rub together plain flour, baking powder, salt, and the spice blend with a little margarine until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
Step three: Pour in plant-based milk and a splash of golden syrup, then stir until a smooth batter forms.
Step four: Drop spoonfuls of batter into the simmering syrup. Let the dumplings puff up on one side for about 10 minutes.
Step five: Carefully flip each dumpling with a large spoon and cook for another 10 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
Step six: Serve piping hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Gingerbread Pudding Dumplings
Ingredients
Syrup
- ¾ cup brown sugar packed; approx. 150 g
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 3½ tbsp plant-based margarine approx. 50 g
- ⅓ cup golden syrup approx. 113 g; or light corn syrup
- 2 cups water
Dumplings
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour approx. 180 g
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp salt estimate for “pinch”
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp mixed spice pumpkin-pie/spice blend
- 50 g plant-based margarine
- ¾ cup non-dairy milk soy or oat; approx. 180 mL
- 3 tbsp golden syrup approx. 63 g
- 1 tbsp brown sugar packed; approx. 13 g
Instructions
Spiced Syrup
- In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, combine brown sugar, ground ginger, and margarine.
- Stir in golden syrup and water.
- Place over low heat and bring to a gentle simmer, stirring occasionally, until margarine melts and sugar dissolves.
Dumplings
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, mixed spice, and brown sugar.
- Rub in the margarine with your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Stir in non-dairy milk and golden syrup just until a smooth batter forms.
- Drop heaping tablespoonfuls of batter into the simmering syrup, spacing them evenly.
- Cover and cook on low for 10 minutes.
- Using a large spoon, carefully flip each dumpling, then cover and cook another 10 minutes more (total cook time ~20 minutes).
- Test one dumpling with a skewer—it should come out clean when done.
- Serve the dumplings in bowls, spoon over extra syrup, and top with vanilla ice cream.
B says
Made this today did half the recipe for two of us and there was loads! So easy to make and tasted absolutely lush. Syrupy dumplingy deliciousness mmmm. Definitely going to make again!
Liz says
Yay I’m so glad you liked it! They are so sweet and addictive aren’t they haha. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review 🙂
Samantha says
Soooo sweet but sooooo good!!
Grace says
Such a family fave, I love love love this one, thanks Liz!
Gareth Tan Yiam Leem says
Seriously tasty, no exaggeration!
Janet k. says
This was so good
Sarah says
This looks absolutely mouth-watering.
Hong Nguyen says
Love this recipe so much. Thank you!
Tine says
that syrup is soooo good. i love this recipe! its super easy too