Panforte' pies

Name: Panforte' pies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 140 grams mixed shelled and blanched nut such as pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds and cashews; 375 grams pack ready-made sweet shortcrust pastry; 50 grams butter; 50 grams dark brown muscovado sugar; 3 Tbsps dark maple syrup; 50 grams good-quality chocolate (70% cocoa), chopped; 1 egg, beaten; 1 zest orange; 50 grams soft dried fig, chopped to a paste in a food processor; 1 teaspoons cinnamon; 150 milliliters whipping cream; 1 Tbsp icing sugar, plus extra to dust; 1 Tbsp Cointreau or other Christmassy booze

Panforte' pies might be just the dessert you are searching for. One serving contains 308 calories, 5g of protein, and 20g of fat. This recipe serves 12. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up cinnamon, brown muscovado sugar, butter, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas

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Toast the nuts on a small baking tray for 5-8 mins until golden.

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Toast

Nuts

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Baking Pan

Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured work surface and stamp 12 circles with a 7.5cm plain round cutter. Use to line the wells of a 12-hole bun tin. Chill until step

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Roll

(You will only use around half of the pastry.)

Turn the oven down to 180C/160C fan/gas

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Melt the butter, sugar, syrup and chocolate together in a small pan, then beat in the egg, orange zest, figs and cinnamon. Stir in the toasted nuts.

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Orange Zest

Chocolate

Cinnamon

Butter

Sugar

Syrup

Figs

Nuts

Egg

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Frying Pan

Spoon the nutty mixture into the pastry cases and bake for 18-20 mins until the pastry is pale golden. Cool for 10 mins in the tin, then remove to a rack until just warm. Whip the cream with the sugar and booze, then dust the pies with a little icing sugar and finish with a dollop of cream and a scattering of orange zest just before eating. Good with strong coffee or mint tea.

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Strong Coffee

Powdered Sugar

Orange Zest

Liquor

Cream

Sugar

Mint

Tea

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Oven

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Baking Pan

Frying Pan

Ingredients

Servings:

140grams

mixed shelled and blanched nut such as pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds and cashews 375grams

pack ready-made sweet shortcrust pastry 50grams

butter 50grams

dark brown muscovado sugar 3Tbsps

dark maple syrup 50grams

good-quality chocolate (70% cocoa), chopped 1

egg, beaten 1

zest orange 50grams

soft dried fig, chopped to a paste in a food processor 1teaspoons

cinnamon 150milliliters

whipping cream 1Tbsp

icing sugar, plus extra to dust 1Tbsp

Cointreau or other Christmassy booze

Recommended wine: Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, Vin Santo

Pie works really well with Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, and Vin Santo. These wines are all sweet, which is important since wine should usually be sweeter than the food you're pairing with it. The Chateau Chantal Late Harvest Riesling with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 21 dollars per bottle.