Starting to lose my mind

Last night my lovely, and very tolerant, housemate gave me a nice homemade Christmas card and some lovely homemade Christmas biscuits; and it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't made her anything for Christmas.  I am a bad person.

I can't face making up more of anything that I have made already and she's seen all this year's produce anyway.

Fortunately I was saved by one of the lovely people on a forum I post on, who found this recipe for fabulous mini Christmas Puddings.  I've opted to make double quantities, so I can take some to work tomorrow as well.

  It looks fairly simple, so I reckon I can knock it together whilst having a large glass of wine and celebrating that tomorrow is my last day in my current job.  I fail to see anyway that this plan can go wrong.

Mini Christmas Puddings
75g unsalted butter
100g plain chocolate
75g raisins
2tbspn brandy, port or orange juice
1x300g ready made ginger cake
To decorate:
150g ready to roll icing The picture in that link does NOT look like ready roll icing, so I'm going to melt white chocolate over the top instead.
Green and red food colouring I've bought icing pens instead, with my amazing art skillz this can't go far wrong...
Method:

• Soak the raisins in all of the brandy/port/orange juice; whichever one you chose, for a half an hour I'm soaking the raisins in Christmas Pudding Vodka, for that extra Christmassy taste.
• Melt the butter and chocolate together either over a pan of simmering water or in a microwave
• Stir in the raisins and crumble in the ginger cake At this stage I realise that I have bought Golden Syrup cake rather than ginger cake.  Because I am half way through a bucket of wine and NOTHING on god's earth is entice me back to the Supermarket now, I throw in the cake and teaspoon of ground ginger and try to pretend that nothing has happened.
• Mix well and leave to cool slightly
• Place in Fridge for an hour to firm and then roll into bite sized balls 

 Ok, at this stage they look slightly like a giant rabbit has crapped on the baking tray, but they taste amazing.  The Christmas Vodka really adds an excellent depth to the cake mix.

• Colour 1/3 of the icing green and roll it out on a worktop dusted with icing sugar
• Cut into holly leaves (use a cutter/knife)
• Colour 10g of the icing red and roll into berries
• Roll out remainder of white icing and cut out 10 circles and place these on the top of each of the puddings.
• Add the leaves and berries...and Serve!!!!! 

I ignored all the rest of the steps and instead I melted some white chocolate and left it to cool.  Then I dropped some of the still liquid chocolate on the top and let it dribble down the sides, to create an icing effect. Then I used the icing pens to squiggle on some green holly leaves and dot on some red berries.
 

Now these may not be the most artistic things that I've ever made in my life.

But they taste amazing.

And for a Wednesday night in a bit of a panic and half drunk, they're not that bad.

Hopefully they'll keep my lovely housemate from feeling abandoned as well.