Pandoro (Italian Christmas Cake)

Pandoro (Italian Christmas Cake)

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This traditional Italian sweet yeast bread from Verona translates as ‘golden bread’ and is most popular around Christmas and New Year. Traditionally shaped like a frustum with an eight-pointed...

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Ingredients

  • 500g strong white flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 5g sea salt
  • 125g organic caster sugar
  • 10g fast-acting yeast
  • 1 orange, finely grated zest only
  • 1 lemon, finely grated zest only
  • 150g softened unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 2 medium free-range eggs
  • 2 free-range egg yolks
  • 2 tsp vanilla paste or essence
  • 100ml organic full cream milk, warmed
  • Icing sugar, for dusting
  • 3 sprigs red currants, or similar
  • 150g raspberries
  • 1⁄2 kilo cherries for decoration (optional)
  • 250g mascarpone
  • 1 cup double cream
  • 3 tbsp icing sugar

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