Spiced Chocolate Fruit and Nut Loaf
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
30 min.
Preparation
ready in 1 hr 30 min.
Ready in
Ingredients
for
1
- Ingredients
- 0.333 cup raisins
- 4 tsps Rum
- 2 Apple (peeled, cored and finely sliced)
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 3 ½ ozs mixed Nut (e. g. hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts)
- butter (for the baking tin)
- flour (for the baking tin)
- 2 ¾ cups Spelt flour (no. 630)
- 3 tsps Baking powder
- 3 Tbsps cocoa powder
- 1 tsp Gingerbread spice (see Tips below)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup brown sugar (scant)
- ¼ cup Buttermilk
- ½ cup melted butter
- sugar
Product recommendation
To make the gingerbread spice simply mix together
100 g ground cinnamon
75 g ground cloves
50 g ground nutmeg
75 g ground ginger
125 g ground fennel seeds
125 g ground coriander seeds
125 g aniseed
Preparation steps
1.
Drizzle the raisins with rum and mix the apples with the lemon juice. Dry roast the nuts and then leave to cool.
2.
Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C in a fan oven), 375°F, gas 5 and grease a loaf tin and dust it with flour.
3.
Mix together the flour, baking powder, cocoa, gingerbread spice and a pinch of salt.
4.
Beat the eggs and the sugar until creamy and stir in the butter milk and the butter. Quickly fold in the dry ingredients and stir in the nuts, raisins and apples.
5.
Transfer the mixture to the cake tin and bake for around one hours. Test with a wooden stick to see if it's done. Leave to cool slightly, remove from the tin, sprinkle with sugar and leave to cool on a wire rack.
