CHOCOLATE AND FRUIT RECIPES

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LEFTOVER CHOCOLATE RECIPES | BBC GOOD FOOD



Leftover chocolate recipes | BBC Good Food image

Try our fun bakes and delicious ideas for using up leftover chocolate. Make a simple chocolate bark or a fridge cake packed with goodies.

Provided by Georgina Kiely – Digital food editor, bbcgoodfood.com

Number Of Ingredients 1

NIGELLA'S CHOCOLATE FRUIT CAKE RECIPE - BBC FOOD



Nigella's chocolate fruit cake recipe - BBC Food image

Nigella's easy chocolate fruit cake is dark, moist and delicious. Perfect as a chocolate Christmas cake or for anytime of year.

Provided by Nigella Lawson

Prep Time 1 hours

Cook Time 2 hours

Yield Serves 12

Number Of Ingredients 18

350g/12oz dried soft prunes, chopped
250g/9oz raisins
125g/4oz currants
175g/6oz unsalted butter, softened
175g/6oz dark muscovado sugar
175ml/6fl oz honey
125ml/4fl oz coffee liqueur
2 oranges, juice and zest only
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tbsp good quality cocoa
3 free-range eggs, beaten
150g/5¼oz plain flour
75g/2½oz ground almonds
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
For decoration
25g/1oz dark chocolate covered coffee beans
edible glitter (optional), 2mm gold mini balls, approx 10 gold stars

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 150C/130C Fan/Gas mark 2.
  • Line the sides and bottom of a 20cm/8in, 9cm/3½in deep, round loose-bottomed cake tin with a layer of bake-o-glide or other reusable silicon-baking parchment. When lining the tin with the bake-o-glide, cut the material into strips that are twice as high as the tin itself (it’s easier to use two shorter strips of bake-o-glide, than one long strip); the height of the strips protects the cake from catching on the outside of the cake tin.
  • Place the fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueur, orange juice and zest, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan. Heat the mixture until it reaches a gentle boil, stirring the mixture as the butter melts. Let the mixture simmer for ten minutes. Then remove the saucepan from the heat and leave to stand for 30 minutes.
  • After 30 minutes, the mixture will have cooled a little. Add the eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder and bicarbonate soda, and mix well with a wooden spoon or spatula until the ingredients have combined.
  • Carefully pour the fruit cake mixture into the bake-o-glide lined cake tin. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for 1¾-2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm but will has a shiny and sticky look. At this point, if you insert a cake tester into the middle of the cake, the cake should still be a little uncooked in the middle.
  • Place the cake on a cooling rack. Once the cake has cooled, remove it from the tin.
  • To decorate, place the chocolate covered coffee beans in the centre of the cake and arrange the gold stars around the perimeter of the top of the cake. Then sprinkle some gold mini-balls over the whole of the cake. Sprinkle the glitter over the top of the cake.

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