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Panforte Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Jo_jo_ba / All my dishes 2 years ago An Italian confection that is a cross between fruit cake, candy, and honey cakes. Italy it's also called Siena cake, and dates back to the 13th century. Most often it is served at Christmas with a port wine or brandy, I like it with a slice of soft cheese like Brie. ... More Prep:30m Cook:60m Servings:16	Jo_jo_ba
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Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter

½ cup honey

½ cup sugar

1 oz unsweetened chocolate

1 medium orange, juice and grated zest

1 cup toasted hazelnuts

1 cup chopped, pitted dry figs

½ cup diced candied pineapple

1/3 cup chopped dried apricots

1/3 cup chopped candied cherries

1/3 cup flour

1/3 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon cloves

½ teaspoon black pepper

1 tbsp Calvados liqueur

Directions

Preheat oven to 300° F. Grease and line a 9" spring-form pan.

In a small pan, melt butter, add sugar, honey, chocolate, orange juice and zest.

Stir to mix well, then cook, medium high, without stirring, to 250 on a candy thermometer, about 10 minutes or hard ball stage.

While the sugar mixture cooks, mix toasted hazelnuts, chopped fruit, spices, flour and cocoa.

When sugar mixture reaches desired temperature, stir it into the dry ingredients. T

his will be a heavy, sticky mixture, so stir well to make sure all dry ingredients are incorporated.

Scrape into prepared pan. Moisten your fingertips in water and press batter into bottom and sides of pan.

Bake 50 - 60 minutes, until top of cake looks set.

Cool on a rack, removing sides of spring-form after 10 minutes.

When cooled, sprinkle or brush top with Calvados, wrap in plastic cling wrap and let rest for a week in the refrigerator before serving.

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Comments

grizzlybear 2 years ago said:
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Another great post

jo_jo_ba 2 years ago said:
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 205.7
Total Fat: 7.2 g
Cholesterol: 3.8 mg
Sodium: 13.5 mg
Total Carbs: 36.8 g
Dietary Fiber: 3.7 g
Protein: 2.7 g

kayvee 2 years ago said:
I like this combo of flavors, a verry niccceee! but can I get a heads up, what is Calvados my dear?

jo_jo_ba 2 years ago said:
Calvados is an apple liqueur, you can use brandy as well (it works too and, Grand Marnier is a WONDERFUL option if you have neither!)

mystic_river1 1 year, 12 months ago said:
Come join new group Company's Coming love this recipe...did you say Italian?

pattycake 1 year, 12 months ago said:
This sounds wonderful - I'm a big panforte fan (great for holiday gifts!)

danadooley 1 year, 8 months ago said:
That's very pretty. Thanks for sharing.

splosh 1 year, 5 months ago said:
The orange juice and zest sounds fresher than a citrus peel recipe I've used. Do you just use a shake of pepper as well?

jo_jo_ba 1 year, 5 months ago said:
I just use ground black pepper... haven't looked at anything else!

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