Five Treasure Cake -Thermomix method
Makes one 15 cm round cake or two 10cm cakes
- Prep Time: 15 + 2 hours soaking time
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Yield: 1 x 15 cm cake
- Category: Festive
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: European
Ingredients
20 g whisky (or spirit of choice)
35 g pitted dates, roughly chopped
45 g sultanas, roughly chopped
75 g good quality dark chocolate, in small pieces
20 g unsalted butter/olive oil
30 g honey or maple syrup
25 g sugar
Zest of 1 orange
110 g walnuts and almonds, roughly chopped (55 g walnuts 55 g almonds or nuts of choice)
10 g desiccated coconut
20 g plain flour (oat flour/spelt flour/rice flour)
20 g Dutched cocoa powder, plus extra for dusting to serve
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
pinch of black pepper
pinch of ground chilli (optional but nice)
Instructions
In Advance – 2 hours to overnight
Place whisky in a small bowl and add dates and sultanas.
Leave to soak for a few hours or better overnight.
On baking day
Preheat oven to 160C non-fan (140C fan-forced). Grease and line a 15 cm round tin. Set aside.
Place sugar and orange peel into mixing bowl and mill 8 sec/ speed 10. Set aside.
Place nuts, and soaked dates and sultanas with excess liquid into mixing bowl
and chop 3 sec/speed 5. Set aside.
Place chocolate and butter into mixing bowl and melt 3 min/50C/speed 1. Scrape
down the sides.
Cook again 2-3 min/50C/speed 1 until all chocolate has melted. Add honey, and
orange sugar and cook 5 mins/50C/speed 2.
Add reserved chopped nut and fruit mix, coconut, flour, cocoa powder, ginger
cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, chilli (if using). Stir 5 sec/reverse/speed 3.
The batter is quite thick.
Spoon into the prepared tin smooth top with wet hands.
Bake in a preheated oven for 35 minutes the centre will feel soft but will firm on cooling.
The cake is cooked when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Allow
to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto cooling rack.
Serve dusted with icing sugar or cocoa powder.
Store in the refrigerator and serve in small slices.
Keywords: thermomix, panforte, chocolate cake , vegan cake, Christmas baking
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