The

story behind…

everything we make is 100% gluten free

…the puddings 

Christine's Puddings was born in 2008 as a tiny business selling Christmas Puddings after attending a small food event in our home town,


we fell in love with food festivals and now our range has grown.


I founded Christine's Puddings out of a deep love for good gluten free food, that can be enjoyed by everyone, even those not on a gluten free diet.


Christine's story…

  • Being a Coeliac for over 45 years I am pleased to say that the selection of food available to a Coeliac has come a long way from cardboard biscuits, bread in tins, and fruit salad. These plain and basic choices motivated me and kick-started Christine's Puddings.

    My mission – To make delicious and tasty puddings and tarts for all to enjoy


    14 years on after making my first Christmas pudding, I have my pudding room overlooking the beautiful Blackmore Vale and River Stour in deepest, darkest and delicious Dorset, baking and making a wonderful range of gluten-free, award-winning, delicious sweet and savoury tarts, pastry, and of course everyone’s favourite sticky toffee pudding.


    Over the years we’ve been fortunate to have won many awards nationally and regionally and most recently another gold from the Taste of the West and another 1 star from the Great Taste Awards for our festive Christmas puddings. 


    All the puddings and tarts are made with love and care and you could easily forget that my products are gluten-free which must mean my mission is complete… but I will not stop there, I will continue to bake wonderful delicious gluten-free puddings and make it my goal that you’ll never be offered just a fruit salad again. 

14 years on from making my first Christmas pudding, I have my pudding room overlooking the beautiful Blackmore Vale and River Stour in deepest, darkest and delicious Dorset, baking and making a wonderful range of gluten-free, award-winning, delicious sweet and savoury tarts, pastry, and of course everyone’s favourite sticky toffee pudding.

Over the years we’ve been fortunate to have won many awards nationally and regionally and most recently another gold from the Taste of the West and another 1 star from the Great Taste Awards for our festive Christmas puddings.
 
All the puddings and tarts are made with love and care and you could easily forget that my products are gluten-free which must mean my mission is complete… but I will not stop there, I will continue to bake wonderful delicious gluten-free puddings and make it my goal that you’ll never be offered just a fruit salad again. 

…why the Ladybird?

I inherited my love of baking from my Grandad, who was a professional baker. He always wore a ladybird pin in his hat and this is why I use a ladybird image for my business.

My Grandad's original ladybird pin came from a charity called Pestalozzi Children's Villiage Trust. 

Between 1959 and 1965 the Pestalozzi ladybird logo captured the imagination of the British public and during those years started to change the lives of eighty three children from Europe and Tibet.

…a bit about Christine

Being a Coeliac for over 45 years I am pleased to say that the selection of food available to a Coeliac has come a long way from cardboard biscuits, bread in tins, and fruit salad. These plain and basic choices motivated me and kick-started Christine's Puddings. 

My mission – to make delicious and tasty puddings and tarts for all to enjoy

Our Awards…

  • 2022 – Cherry & Pecan Christmas Pudding – Taste of the West Gold. All the aromas you would expect from a Christmas pudding – warming. Christmas in a bowl!

    The judges thoroughly enjoyed this pudding and one in particular, who isn’t a massive fan of Christmas puddings, loved it.  Nice and light in texture but with plenty of oomph with flavour and inclusions! 


    It is packed with fruit, nuts, and lovely pudding.  Every mouthful is interesting with a good contrast of textures.  Very good mouthfeel with every bite being more and more interesting.  


    Rich, dark and moist looking.  A lovely looking pudding; appears to be packed with fruit.   


    A wonderful flavour, full of delicious fruit and nutty goodness with a lovely balance of Christmassy spices.  A wonderful pud! 

  • 2022 – Mini Mince Pies – Taste of the West Gold. Wonderful. Buttery pastry. Lots of fruit and spice. Christmas in a bite! Would have no clue these are gluten free.

    what the judges said…


    So appealing. Buttery. Fruity, with mild ‘booze’. Yummy! Hot and cold they smelt delicious.  


    Beautiful. Even pastry. Even fill. No boil-over. Love the Christmas trees on top. Perfect little pie!  


    They are utterly moreish and delicious both hot and cold and they leave a lovely, lingering aftertaste. 

    Please note that no butter was used in the recipe!

2022 – Cherry & Pecan Christmas Pudding – Taste of the West Gold. All the aromas you would expect from a Christmas pudding – warming. Christmas in a bowl!

2022 – Mini Mince Pies – Taste of the West Gold. Wonderful. Buttery pastry. Lots of fruit and spice. Christmas in a bite! Would have no clue these are GF. They are utterly moreish and delicious both hot and cold and they leave a lovely, lingering aftertaste.  
Great compliments, thank you – buttery taste? but no butter used as they are also vegan!

2021 – Sticky Toffee Ginger Pudding wins a Great Taste Star 
 
2020 – Mini Treacle Tarts – wins a Silver in the 'Sinful category' of the FreeFrom Food Awards 2020

Luxury Christmas Pudding wins a Gold in the Taste of The West Awards

Dark & Fruity Christmas Pudding wins a Silver in the Taste of The West Awards

2019 – Gold Winner for my Hot Irish Tart in the FreeFrom Food Awards and 

2019 – Great Taste Star for my Mini Raspberry Frangi Tarts

"They would be lovely as part of a selection of sweet canapes for an autumn wedding"

2018 – Great Taste Gold (2 stars) for my Sticky Toffee Pudding and a Great Taste Gold & Taste of the West for my FreeFrom Christmas Pudding

2017 – Great Taste Gold for my Amber Ale Christmas Pudding

2017 – Taste of the West Silver for my Amber Ale Christmas Pudding and Sticky Toffee Pudding
2017 – Shortlisted in the FreeFrom Food Awards 
for my Apricot & Ginger Bread Pudding & Gingerbread Biscuit Trees

2016 – Great Taste Golds for my Savoury Pastry Cases and Apricot & Ginger Bread Pudding. 

2016 – Taste of the West awards – Apricot & Ginger Bread Pudding (Silver), Naturally Sweet Spotted Dick Pudding (Highly Commended)

2015 – Great Taste Golds for my Taste of the Med Savoury Tart, Victoria Sponge and Christmas Dark Ale Pudding

2015 – Taste of the West – A Gold for my savoury pastry case and a Highly Commended for my dairy free pastry case

plus my Taste of the Med Savoury tart wins a Highly Commended in the 2015 FreeFrom Food awards

2014 – FreeFrom Eating Out Awards – gluten-free pastry cases



Award Winning Luxury Christmas Puddings

Sticky Toffee Pudding wins an award

Christine's Christmas Puddings featured in the Bournemouth Echo,

…and gets a mention and recommendation from Xanthe Clay in The Saturday Telegraph Weekend section and is also featured live on Radio Solent's Foodie Friday with Katie Martin

Christine's Frangipane Tart – wins another award!

An attractive individual tart. The gluten free pastry is crisp,
and the balance of raspberry and almond is right. This is an impressive example of a gluten, wheat and dairy-free product.

and also Christine's Sticky Toffee Pudding wins an award

Both these products were entered into the main non gluten free categories, so it was great to see that they got awards for 'taste' rather than just being gluten free.

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Christine's Gluten-free and dairy-free Frangipane has won the
FreeFrom Food Awards scones, sweet biscuit and cookie category

plus also a Runner Up of the FAIR Trophy for the best free-from food 2013

"This tart has a lovely taste and almond flavour, this was another product I was lucky enough to judge and I was truly amazed that this tart is gluten and dairy free. it was served warm at the awards night and was delicious." Gluten free cake lover