Easy brandy sauce recipe (2024)

If you're not confident about making an egg-based custard to go with your Christmas pud, try this silky sauce instead. It’s stabilised with cornflour to make it fail-safe!

By The Good Housekeeping Cookery TeamUpdated: 19 December 2022

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Brandy sauce is essential for serving with hot

Christmas pudding at the end of your festive feast and this recipe is not only delicious but foolproof, too.

Only six ingredients are needed to whip up this brandy sauce recipe, and your guests will thank you for adding a little extra kick to an equallyboozy pud.

It’s deeply rich, made with vanilla pods, caster sugar, cream, whole milk and (yes, you guessed it) a few tablespoons of brandy. It’s more festive than serving pudding with simple double cream and can take a supermarket Christmas pudding to the next level or finish off your homemade Christmas puddingperfectly.

If you have yet to decide what Christmas pudding to serve at Christmas dinner then we recommend our most popular recipe, our easy Christmas pudding, which lets the microwave do the hard work. It can even be made on the same day.

And if you love brandy, you've got to try some of these gorgeous brandy butter chocolate fondants– perfect for serving to friends and family this festive season.

Find all of our most popular Christmas recipes here.

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Ingredients

3 Tbsp.
cornflour
400 ml
(14fl oz) whole milk
75 g
(3oz) caster sugar
1
vanilla pod, seeds scraped
3 Tbsp.
brandy
100 ml
(3½fl oz) double cream

Directions

1. Step1
  Put the cornflour in a small bowl and whisk in 3tbsp of the milk. Pour the remaining milk into a pan and add the sugar and cornflour mixture. Bring to the boil, whisking constantly, and heat until sauce thickens.
2. Step2
  Take off heat; stir in vanilla seeds, brandy and cream. Serve hot or warm with the pudding.