Great Italian Chefs

Name: Great Italian Chefs
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Cuisine: European, Italian, Mediterranean
Ingredients: 1kg mixed nuts; 1kg acacia honey; 200g of breadcrumbs; 200g of raisins; 150g of pine nuts, roughly chopped; 100g of candied citron, finely chopped; 10g of cloves, or to taste; 1/3 nutmeg, or to taste; 1 cinnamon stick; dry white wine, enough to cover the raisins; 1 pinch of salt; 1kg 00 flour; 400g of unsalted butter, room temperature; 400g of sugar; 200ml of dry white wine; 1 pinch of salt; icing sugar

Instructions

Cook:5h

This Italian Christmas cake is a speciality of the Emilia Romagna region, given as gifts to friends and family. Packed with nuts, honey and dried fruit – including Italian citron – the filling is rich, sticky and sweet and comes wrapped in a crisp, sugared pastry coating.

Updated at: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:09:46 GMT