Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles
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.
Top the trifles with some more walnut halves roasted in ghee, then caramelised, and dig in! Dessert just right for this season!
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.
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!
Fruit Cake & Caramelised Walnut Trifles
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.
Deeba @ PAB
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.
8 Comments
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