Nigella Flourless Fruit Cake

It s incredibly simple only 7 ingredients and it all comes together in a blender.

Nigella flourless fruit cake.

A cake tester should come up mainly clean but with a few sticky chocolate crumbs clinging to it. It tastes like one of those sponges you drench while cooling with syrup only you don t have to. Preheat the oven to 180 c 160 c fan gas mark 4 350 f line the base of a 23cm 9inch springform cake tin with baking parchment and butter the sides. There s no creaming no mixing wet ingredients in one bowl and dry in the next.

If you insert a cake tester into the centre of the cake it will still be a little gooey in the middle. Line a 32 x 22 cm 12 x 8 inch rectangular tin see note. Beat the butter caster sugar and vanilla. This is a wonderfully damp dense and aromatic flourless cake.

Place in the oven and bake for 1 2 hours by which time the top of the cake should be firm but will have a shiny and sticky look. Though this cake is most definitely for life not just for christmas. This is a gluten free treat for the greedy. Let it cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack still in its tin and then ease the sides of the cake with a small metal spatula and spring it out of the tin.

Dried fruit and spices make for a exquisitely squidgy and festive gorgeously golden fruit cake a fresh gluten free alternative to the traditional christmas cake. Nigella lawson s flourless moist clementine cake8 10 servings approximately 375g clementines or other oranges see note preferably organic 2 1 4 cup 250g finely ground almonds 6 eggs 3 4 cup cane sugar 3 4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder wash the oranges and place them in a bowl cover with cold water and bring to boil. This is the fruity blonde sister to that brunette temptress my chocolate fruit cake from nigella christmas. This flourless chocolate orange cake comes from the great nigella and it s the epitome of what her baking is like.

Put the cake on a cooling rack. It includes espresso powder chopped pistachios and edible rose petals and it s quite an impressive looking cake even though it s pretty simple to make. Pour the fruit cake mixture into the prepared cake tin. Her dark and sumptuous chocolate cake from simply nigella is made with coconut oil in the cake and coconut butter for the icing although she writes that you could use vegetable oil and vegan margarine instead if you preferred.

Leave to cool completely or eat while still warm with some ice cream as a pudding. Coconut and passionfruit slab cake is a guest recipe by monday morning cooking club so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe preheat the oven to 170 c 340 f gas 3. And there s also my christmas spiced chocolate cake think chocolate cloud cake but with a seasonal twist. It keeps well indeed it gets better after a few days.

Fruit cake with the emphasis firmly on.