Christmas Pudding versus Panettone?

For Panettone lovers - try it as French toast for another breakfast delicacy.

For Pavlova lovers - a very delicious and festive looking presentation - decked out with lemon creme (lemon curd cut with a little whipped creme) in the center then topped with fresh raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, garnished with fresh mint.

Take a picture of your Pavlova wreath before you cut into it!
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We have an Italian deli locally so my husband is able to feed his panettone habit all year round. I can take it or leave it, though it is delicious in a bread and butter pudding.

Similarly we buy enough Christmas puddings to see us through to the following December - in fact we’ll be eating our last one from 2022 tomorrow. Like puppies, we think it’s not just for Christmas. 😂

Love them both. But only get Panatone made in Italy from our local Italian deli. It’s delicious!

Thanks for the tips on what to do with pannetone! I’ve been gifted with some 2 years running and was underwhelmed, but then I did just eat it as it was! Toasted with coffee sounds good!
Post turkey, it’s always home made Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

My tummy won't tolerate Christmas pud or mince pies any more, but happily a kind neighbour left an Aldi Pannetone on my doorstep last year and I tried it for the first time. Oh my, my what a delicious discovery! How lovely is that!

I won't buy either, but I have made three Christmas puddings.

As the family (7 of us) will be here for a week, they will all get eaten. I make my puddings entirely with breadcrumbs, no flour at all, so they are beautifully light and DDiL will eat my CjChristmas puddings where she doesn't eat others.

Christmas pudding is far too rich for me, as is Christmas cake. I love Panettone, but don't eat it on the day. In fact I bought a mini one which I ate weeks ago!

For me Pannetone for DH Christmas pudding with Cumbrian rum butter

Really like both. Never liked meringue much too sugary and sweet

Pannetone - in the days before Christmas add brandy thro little skewer holes. cut whole cake in half horizontally and put in mascarpone - drizzle whole cake with liquid chocolate. Delicious!

Christmas pudding by a mile! With brandy butter.
I make my puds, though - not keen on shop ones - too dark, dense and heavy. I use an old GH recipe - people who don’t usually like Christmas pud often like it - but I always say nobody must ever feel obliged to have any - it’s such a waste, giving it to people who don’t really like it.

Dh and I will often be eating the 2nd one well into January.

I’ve never bought panettone. We were once given one, and TBH it was very dry and nothing to shout about at all - most of it ended up on the bird table.

I don't care for panettone, it doesn't know whether it's a cake or bread.
My DD and family love it and buy a big one every year.
Give me a Christmas pudding. I'd eat that any day of the week.

I love Christmas pudding I don't know any of the younger generation who do though. No one asked when I was growing up whether it would be something you liked,it was just put in front of us with the assumption it would be eaten. I suppose it is quite a rich food for young children but I've always loved it and it's a once a year treat. Having said that Panatonne is also lovely, surely there could never be anything unpalatable coming out of Italy! Not comparable to CP though it's texture is more bread like. I also love Stollen mmmm!

My DH has chocolate log I have Christmas pudding panettone is not a preference here for Christmas Day. DH likes panettone with a cup of tea over the holiday I don’t like it at all.

I do love Christmas pudding. Once a year only it's just right.

Not fussed about either of them. We’ll just have the main meal, possibly ice cream later in the day, neither of us have a particularly sweet tooth.

Can I join you behind the settee Cornergran? I don't think much of either of them and always make a pavlova.

Neither for me, revolting concoctions.

How do you "dollop" a cake like Panettone?
I love it though and it does make a wonderful Bread and Butter Pudding.

I like both. What about a dollop of panettone alongside the Chrissie pudding? We always have a big bowl of fresh fruit,too and pavlova for those who like it (not me, too sweet)

Neither thank you. Dislike them both (hides behind the sofa). It’s home made meringue and fruit with Cointreau cream for me. Mr C, a traditionalist, hopes for an unreasonably large portion Christmas pudding with brandy cream, never brandy butter.

Neither of us are fond of Panettone. No, I’m not sure why either. Any received as a gift are shared amongst the neighbours.

Freya5 - if you think pannetone is a "tasteless bit of fluff" maybe you haven't yet tried a really good one?

Made over two or three days in smaller batches is the way to go! Yum.

I don't see why it's a versus situation!

Surely most of us still have a Christmas pudding even if we have several panettones over the festive period.

Christmas pudding all the way. No to a tastless bit of fluff that is panettone.

Can you serve a panettone flambé? If not, then it cannot replace Christmas pudding.