Christmas-style zuccotto

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• Cooking ingredients

  • 100g/3½oz icing sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod, split, seeds scraped out

• Biscuits, snacks and sweets

  • 85g/3oz dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa solids), grated
  • 85g/3oz dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa solids), melted, plus extra to serve

• Drinks

  • 3 tbsp brandy
  • 5 tbsp fresh orange juice

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 450ml/16fl oz double cream, whipped until stiff peaks form when the whisk is removed
  • double cream, to serve

• Other

  • 2 tbsp orange liqueur
  • 2 ready-made madeira cakes, trimmed and cut into slices
  • 100g/3½oz ready-made Christmas pudding, cooked and broken up into pieces

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