Christmas Pudding Lactation Bliss Balls: A Festive No-Bake Recipe for Breastfeeding Mums

This recipe is part of the Nella Vosk Breastfeeding Nutrition & Milk Supply: Evidence-Based Guide for Australian Mothers — a comprehensive resource covering galactagogue foods, postpartum nutrition, and practical feeding strategies. This recipe focuses on one very specific problem: how to bring a genuinely nourishing, lactation-supportive treat to the Christmas table that looks the part, tastes indulgent, and takes about fifteen minutes to make.

Christmas with a baby is a specific kind of beautiful chaos. There’s the excitement of their first tree, their first carols, their first look at a pile of wrapping paper. And then there’s the reality of navigating the festive season while also breastfeeding, managing sleep deprivation, and trying to eat something more substantial than a leftover rum ball at a mother’s group catch-up.

These Christmas Pudding Lactation Bliss Balls solve the catch-up problem elegantly. Made using the Nourish Mama Lactation Bliss Balls Premix, dressed in white chocolate and crowned with a glazed cherry, they look like proper Christmas puddings on a platter. Nobody will guess they’re packed with oats, linseed, raw cacao, and sunflower meal. Nobody needs to know. Bring them to the mother’s group, the work Christmas party, or Christmas Day itself — and eat three while everyone else has two.

At Nella Vosk, making lactation support genuinely enjoyable — not medicinal, not complicated — sits at the heart of our Milk & Feeding Support pathway. The festive season is hard enough. Your snacks should be one thing that’s easy.

Author

Kelly Northey, Certified Postpartum Nutrition Professional

Servings

20 balls

Category

Snacks

Ingredients

• Nourish Mama Bliss Ball Premix
• 4 tbsp organic coconut oil
• 4 tbsp organic maple syrup
• 1 ripe avocado
• 100g white chocolate melting wafers or buttons — for dairy-free and vegan, Sweet William White Choc Buttons work beautifully
• 10 glazed cherries, halved (gives 20 cherry halves — one per ball)

Directions

1. Make the bliss ball base. Place all bliss ball ingredients into a food processor or high-powered blender. Blitz until the mixture comes together into a cohesive, sticky dough — approximately 30–60 seconds. Scrape down the sides as needed. The mixture should hold together when pressed between your fingers.
2. Roll into balls. Using a tablespoon, scoop equal portions of mixture and roll into 20 round balls. Place onto a tray lined with baking paper. If the mixture is sticking to your hands, lightly dampen your palms with water before rolling.
3. First chill. Refrigerate the balls for 20–30 minutes until firm. This step is important — chilling the balls before adding the chocolate topping stops the chocolate from sliding off.
4. Melt the white chocolate. Place the white chocolate buttons in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 20-second bursts on medium power, stirring between each, until just melted and smooth. Do not overheat — white chocolate scorches easily. Alternatively, melt over a double boiler on the stovetop.
5. Top the balls. Remove the chilled balls from the fridge. Using a teaspoon, dollop approximately 1 tsp of melted white chocolate on top of each ball, allowing it to spread naturally into a small pool — this creates the “custard” look of a traditional Christmas pudding.
6. Add the cherry. Press half a glazed cherry into the centre of the white chocolate on each ball before it sets.
7. Final chill. Return the tray to the fridge for at least 30–60 minutes until both the balls and the chocolate topping are fully set.
8. Transfer and store. Once set, transfer to an airtight container, layered between sheets of baking paper. Store in the fridge for up to a week, or freeze for up to 3 months (see storage tips below).