Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles
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Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles

2018/12/25 / 8 Comments
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Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles…when chocolate spice cake loaded with fruit mince and fresh, crisp, sweet walnuts from California Walnuts India meet a softly whipped vanilla orange spice cream, magic happens.

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Top the trifles with some more walnut halves roasted in ghee, then caramelised, and dig in! Dessert just right for this season!

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Have you baked with walnuts this season? It’s my absolute favourite dry fruit to bake with, has been for years. I love the value walnuts add to a bake, both by way of nutrition and taste.

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I also love that you can add them to about any bake and they pair well with almost all ingredients! In fact, I can’t think of any they don’t pair well with!

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Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles

Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles

...when xmas chocolate spice cake loaded with fruit mince and fresh, crisp, sweet walnuts from @californiawalnutsindia meet a softly whipped vanilla orange spice cream, magic happens. Top the trifles with some more walnut halves roasted in ghee, then caramelised, and dig in! Dessert just right for this season!
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Prep Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

Spicy Chocolate Garam Masala Fruit & Walnut Cake

  • Spicy Chocolate Garam Masala Fruit & Walnut Cake

Fruit mix

  • 150 g fruit mix {raisins berries apricots, orange, ginger etc}
  • 150 ml rum
  • 2 tbsp garam masala powder
  • 2 tbsp coconut sugar

Dry Mix

  • 1/2 cup all purpose our
  • 1/2 cup almond meal
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Wet mix

  • 75 g clarified butter {ghee}
  • 1 cup coconut sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Whipped vanilla orange spice cream

  • 300 ml 20% cream chilled
  • 1 tbsp powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala
  • Few drops orange extract
  • ½ vanilla bean scraped

Ghee Caramelised Walnuts

  • 1 cup ½walnut halves
  • 1 tbsp Ghee/ clarified butter
  • 2 tbsp sugar

Instructions
 

Fruit & Walnut Cake

  • Soak the fruit in the rum, 2 tbsp coconut sugar & garam masala for 2-3 days {or more if possible}. Check daily and top with more rum if required.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, almond meal, cocoa, garam masala, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir together dry mix with walnuts and chocolate chips.
  • Preheat oven to 160C. Line the bottoms and side of a 6″ round tin with baking parchment.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the clarified butter/ghee and coconut sugar until light and moussey. Beat in eggs plus vanilla extract, followed by the Greek yogurt.
  • Toss the fruit into the dry mix, then fold it all into the butter mix.
  • Transfer to prepared tin, even out and bake for 50-60 minutes until done.
  • Cool completely and rest for a day

Whipped vanilla orange spice cream

  • Place all ingredients in a large bowl and whip until light.

Ghee Caramelised Walnuts

  • Heat the ghee in a heavy bottom pan. Add the walnut halves and gently roast over low flame until light golden.
  • Add the sugar and continue to cook unil caramelised tossing to coat the nuts.
  • Immediately turn out onto a steel plate or parchment paper/silpat in a single layer, and allow to cool.

Assemble

  • Crumble some moist fruit & walnut cake to line the base of the trifle glass. Top with whipped spice cream, some caramelised walnuts. Repeat. Serve immediately, or chill until ready to serve.

About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

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