(Siena honey cake - Authentic Italian recipes)

150 g (5 oz) bitter chocolate
150 g (5 oz) sugar
400 g (14 oz) sweet almonds, peeled
40 g (1 1/2 oz) bitter almonds, peeled
300 g (10 oz) honey
350 g (12 oz) assorted candied fruit
1/2 tablespoon candied orange peel
200 g (7 oz) white flour
Pinch of pepper
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
30 g (1 oz) pine-nuts
10 g (1/3 oz) icing sugar for dusting

Time:
preparation - 15 minutes
cooking - 30 minutes
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 584 (kCal) 29 % GDA - 2443 (kJ)
Protein: 11.8 (g) 22 % GDA
Total fat: 26.3 (g) 37 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 78.4 (g) 29 % GDA
Sugars: 64.3 (g) 71 % GDA

Crush all the bitter almonds with half of the sweet ones. Mix the other half with the pine-nuts. Cut chocolate into little pieces.
Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
Heat the honey in a little pan until it becomes transparent. At this point switch off the gas
and add all the ingredients, stirring with a wooden spoon slowly. You have to add flour slowly.
At this point pour the mixture into a low, wide, round cake tin, previously floured. Bake in the oven for half an hour or until the cake becomes brown and firm.
Let it cool and dredge with icing sugar before serving.

What's the right wine?

Our suggestion is: Vin Santo del Chianti Classico (a sweet wine from Tuscany-Italy)

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