anyone know this recipe?

Question

does anyone know the recipe for Nigella Lawson's christmas cake from her recent christmas kitchen programme?. But not any cake, the one with a slight hint of chocolate. Help greatly appreciated
thanks

sorry, i forgot to mention that it also has tia maria. and maybe honey.
thanks

Answer 1

I think this might be the one you are looking for. Edible glitter? Does such a thing exist?

Preparation time 30 mins to 1 hour

Cooking time over 2 hours







Ingredients
350g/12¼oz dried soft prunes, chopped
250g/8¾oz raisins
125g/4½oz currants
175g/6¼oz unsalted butter, softened
175g/6¼oz dark muscovado sugar
175ml/6¼fl oz honey
125ml/4½fl oz coffee liqueur
2 oranges, juice and zest only
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tbsp good quality cocoa
3 free-range eggs, beaten
150g/5¼oz plain flour
75g/2½oz ground almonds
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
For decoration
25g/1oz dark chocolate-covered coffee beans
edible glitter
gold mini balls
about 10 edible gold stars



Method
1. Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2.
2. Line the sides and bottom of a 20cm/8in, 9cm/3½in deep, round loose-bottomed cake tin with a layer of reusable silicon baking parchment. When lining the tin with the parchment, cut the material into strips that are twice as high as the tin itself (it is easier to use two shorter strips of parchment, than one long strip); the height of the strips protects the cake from catching on the outside of the cake tin.
3. Place the fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueur, orange juice and zest, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan. Heat the mixture until it reaches a gentle boil, stirring the mixture as the butter melts. Let the mixture simmer for ten minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat and leave to stand for 30 minutes.
4. After 30 minutes, the mixture will have cooled a little. Add the eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder and bicarbonate soda, and mix well with a wooden spoon or spatula until the ingredients have combined.
5. Carefully pour the fruitcake mixture into the lined cake tin. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for 1¾-2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm but will has a shiny and sticky look. At this point, if you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake, the cake should still be a little uncooked in the middle.
6. Place the cake on a cooling rack. Once the cake has cooled, remove it from the tin.
7. To decorate, place the chocolate-covered coffee beans in the centre of the cake and arrange the gold stars around the perimeter of the top of the cake. Then sprinkle some gold mini-balls over the whole of the cake. Sprinkle the edible glitter over the top of the cake.

Answer 2

I think this is it!



Christmas Special: Certosino Cake


1/3 cup of seedless raisins
2 tablespoons of Marsala
2 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons of flour
2 teaspoons of baking soda
1/2 cup plus 2 T of honey
1/2 cup of sugar
3 tablespoons of unsalted butter
3 tablespoons of water
1 tablespoons of anise or fennel seeds
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
2 medium-tart apples, roughly grated
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons or 7 ounces of blanched almonds, coarsely chopped
Scant 1/4 cup of pine nuts
3 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1/3 cup of walnuts, chopped
10-inch springform pan, buttered and lined with parchment or wax paper

Suggestions for decorating:
4 tablespoons of apricot jam to glaze pecan halves
Natural-colored glacé cherries
Blanched whole almonds
Marrons glacés
Glacé fruits


Soak the raisins in the Marsala for 20 minutes and--while they're steeping--preheat the oven to 350°F. Measure the flour and baking soda out into a large bowl. Heat the honey, sugar, butter and water in a saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Add the anise or fennel seeds and cinnamon, then pour this mixture over the bowl of flour and stir to combine.

Mix in all the other ingredients--not forgetting the soaked raisins and their liquid. Then spoon into the pan and cook for about 45 minutes to an hour. Should you find that the cake needs that final 15 minutes, you may need to cover it with foil to stop it from scorching. When the cake has cooled, heat the apricot jam in a small pan and--using a pastry brush--paint most (but not all) of it over the top of the cake. This glaze gives it a sticky surface to which the fruits and so forth will adhere. Decorate with glacé fruits and nuts of your choice, leaving no gaps of cake visible on top. Brush with scant remaining glaze, so all looks burnished and shiny

Answer 3

Hi,
yes interestingly I found myself in the same dilemma!
Saw the program on TV could not remember the channel, thought of channel 4 but after searching google came across the fact that it was BBC2. And what a delight! Making the cake today and the link is http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/christmas/nigella_about.shtml
Enjoy, hope it is as good as on TV

Answer 4

Not sure where you saw the show, but I know Nigella Lawson has a show or had a show on FoodNetwork, and their website is www.foodnetwork.com, I found her name there, and several recipes for her, but not sure which you might be looking for, so try there and good luck.

Answer 5

This one is described as somewhere between gingerbread and chocolate:
http://www.recipezaar.com/131762
This one is called Certosino Cake, and has all kinds of ingredients, including a small amount of chocolate:
http://www.stylenetwork.com/Shows/Nigella/Recipes/certosinocake.html
Hope one of these is what you're searching for!

Answer 6

This is the Christmas Cupcakes that are "somewhere between chocolate and gingerbread" if that's the one: http://www.recipezaar.com/131762

Answer 7

look for it in the cook books
maybe they have the answer

Answer 8

go to foodnetwork.com and search. always works for me.