Panforte di Siena
Siena's medieval spiced fruit and nut cake — dense, chewy and fragrant with pepper, cinnamon and cloves.
Ingredients
Instructions
Line a 22cm tin with rice paper or baking paper, preheat oven to 150C.
Combine nuts, dried fruits, flour, cocoa and spices in a large bowl.
Heat honey and sugar together until sugar dissolves and reaches 115C.
Pour hot honey over nut mixture, stir quickly until combined — it will be very stiff.
Press into prepared tin as evenly as possible — wet hands help.
Bake 30 minutes until just set — it will still be soft but firms as it cools.
Cool completely, dust thickly with icing sugar before cutting.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.