Chocolate Panforte

By pattisw

Ingredients

• 5 oz bitter chocolate
• 5 oz sugar
• 14 o) sweet almonds, peeled
• 1 1/2 oz bitter almonds, peeled
• 10 oz honey
• 12 oz assorted candied fruit
• 1 tablespoon candied orange peel
• 7 ozwhite flour
• Pinch of pepper
• 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• Pinch of grated nutmeg
• Scant handful of pine-nuts
• Icing sugar

Details

Servings 1

Preparation

Step 1

Crush all the bitter almonds with half of the sweet ones. Mix the other half with the pine-nuts. Cut chocolate into little pieces.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Heat the honey in a little pan until it becomes transparent. At this point switch off the heat
and add all the ingredients, stirring with a
wooden spoon slowly. You have to add flour slowly.
At this point pour the mixture into a low, wide, round cake tin, previously floured. Bake in the oven for half an hour or until the cake becomes brown and firm.
Let it cool and dredge with icing sugar before serving