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Spice cakes with walnuts and figs
- Prep time:
- 10 mins
- Cook time:
- 15 mins
- Serves:
- 6
Richard Corrigan finishes his dinner party menu with a delicious dessert with seasonal figs and walnuts
Ingredients
- 250g Butter
- 50g Honey
- 100g Flour
- 300g granulated sugar
- 50 g ground Almonds
- 1/2 tbsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground Ginger
- 1 tbsp Mixed spice
- 1 tsp liquorice powder
- 1 tsp Chinese five spice
- 8-9 egg whites
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200C.2. Brown the butter in a saucepan and add honey to cool.
3. Mix all dry ingredients, stir in the melted butter and egg whites.
4. Line ramekins or muffin tin with butter and ¾ fill with mix.
5. Bake at 200C for 10-12 minutes.
6. Serve with ripe figs and walnuts (peeled).
This dessert finishes off Richard Corrigan’s dinner party menu. Why not try his main course of Roast gurnard with coriander mash and his starter Scallops with clementine, ham and almond salad?
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View all comments (7)Hi there, I've amended the amount of eggs and we're just checking the amounts of spices with Richard now. I'll get back to you!
Think the flour and sugar quantities may be wrong way round - 350g sugar
That's right. The equivalent of 6 egg whites were used.
We have just made the cakes using the web recipe - and thrown them away !. I think there is some error with the egg white listing. An expensive mistake.
On the show he used a half teaspoon of baking powder, half teaspoon of ginger, then one teaspoon of each of the other spices.
jan, on the show he used six egg whites.The amounts given for baking powder and mixed spice in the website recipe are different from the show too. On the show he used a 1
Hi i tried to make Richard Corrigan's spice cakes today which he made on market kitchen on friday maybe i'v made a mistake but the recipe did not work using the amounts given on the market kitchen website i wonder if the egg white amount is correct because it amounts to the whites of eight eggs