Panforte
From jo_jo_ba 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 16
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. Read more See less
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter shopping list
- ½ cup honey shopping list
- ½ cup sugar shopping list
- 1 oz unsweetened chocolate shopping list
- 1 medium orange, juice and grated zest shopping list
- 1 cup toasted hazelnuts shopping list
- 1 cup chopped, pitted dry figs shopping list
- ½ cup diced candied pineapple shopping list
- 1/3 cup chopped dried apricots shopping list
- 1/3 cup chopped candied cherries shopping list
- 1/3 cup flour shopping list
- 1/3 cup cocoa shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon shopping list
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg shopping list
- ½ teaspoon cloves shopping list
- ½ teaspoon black pepper shopping list
- 1 tbsp calvados liqueur shopping list
How to make it
- 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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