If you are counting down the shopping days to Christmas with rising panic about costs, what to buy, how to wow your mother-in-law or those fussy teenagers here’s a little cheaty edible gift that’ll cut through all that. Using easily available, cheap ingredients they take little time to make (there’s no baking, stirring for hours, keeping an eye in case they burn etc etc). Dear readers I give you… Plum Pudding Truffles. Express your thanks for this in hard cash or hard liquor, I accept both.