Desserts
Chocolate and fig Panforte
Difficulty
Medium
Preparation
30 min
Cook
10 - 15 min
Serves
10 - 12
Panforte (comparable to Gingerbread) is a traditional Christmas dessert of Siena, spicy and very nutritious, circular in shape, low and compact. Traditional panforte is a made with honey, nuts, almonds, hazelnuts, spices, candied fruit and it's flavoured with cloves, cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg and coriander. Joana, a culinary enthusiast from Bulgaria, has sent her Panforte recipe with figs and chocolate. Thanks Joana!
![[Photo credits: Joana Petrova]](/shared/visittuscany/immagini/blogs/ricetta/panforte_intero_wp5_6644.jpg)
Ingredients
- 80g flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground star anise
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200g figs, chopped
- 100g hazelnuts
- 150g almonds
- 100g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1 orange zest
- 150g caster sugar
- 150g honey
- 50g water
- icing sugar to dust
Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 150ºC . Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin.
- Sift the flour, cinnamon and star anise. Add the figs, nuts, chocolate, orange zest and vanilla extract and mix to combine.
- Place the sugar, honey and water in a saucepan and slowly bring to the boil over medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and boil about 10-15 minutes, until the dough begins to thick.
- Immediately pour the sugar mixture over the flour mixture and mix quickly with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- Quickly spoon out the mixture into the greased tin and bake for 15 minutes.
- Cool well before taking out of the pan.
- Sprinkle generously with icing sugar.
- Store in an airtight container.
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