Panforte - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• flavourless oil, for greasing
• edible rice paper (optional)
• 300g nuts, toasted and chopped (we used pistachios and hazelnuts)
• 50g candied peel, finely chopped
• 250g dried fruit, chopped (we used dates and apricots)
• 50g plain flour
• 2 tsp spices (we used 1 tsp cinnamon, ¾ tsp ginger and ¼ tsp cardamom)
• 125g honey
• 150g golden caster sugar
• 3 tbsp fortified wine or liqueur (we used Marsala)
• icing sugar, to dust