Italian Desserts: Traditional Italian Desserts for Christmas

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Chocolate Panforte

By FDL

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A traditional Italian dessert made with nuts, fruits, chocolate and honey

Ingredients

Flour 150 g
Honey 150 g, Acacia variety
Walnuts 150 g
Hazelnuts 150 g
Almonds 150 g
Dark chocolate 100 g
Citron 100 g, candied
Orange 100 g, candied
Cherry 100 g, candied
Fig 100 g, dried
Cinnamon 1 pinch
Pepper 1 pinch
Clove 1
Nutmeg 1 pinch
Ginger 1 pinch, fresh, chopped
Edible rice paper 1 sheet
Icing sugar 200 g + 20 g for decoration

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Preparation time 20 m
Cooking time 30 m
Recipe category Dessert
Recipe yield 8
Recipe cuisine Italian

Preparation

In a large bowl, combine walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts - all peeled, toasted and coarsely chopped -, minced dried figs, chopped citron and candied orange cut into bits, cinnamon, pepper, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and flour.

Add chocolate cut into bits.

Heat icing sugar, honey and 15 ml water in a small pan, stirring well. Remove from heat when the mixture reaches a boil. Add the mixture of fruit, spices and chocolate.

Mix well. Cover the bottom of a cake pan with edible rice paper and place the mixture in it, coating your hands with flour and forming a disk 2 cm thick.

Cook for half an hour in an oven preheated to 150° C. Remove from the oven when ready and cool, then sprinkle with icing sugar.

Wine pairing: Vin Santo Riserva

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