Placek with Cranberries, Chocolate & Nuts

After Christmas I found  I had lots of dried cranberries & nuts left from other recipes.

So I decided to make a variation on my placek (flat cake) with chocolate, nuts & sultanas

Ingredients

• 120g butter
• 120g Demerara sugar
• 2 eggs
• 120g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 100g dried cranberries
• 100g chopped chocolate (a mixture of dark & white)
• 80g chopped nuts

Method

• Grease and line a 21 x 26 cms baking tray.
• Pre-heat the oven to GM4 – 180°C
• Chop the nuts and the chocolate.
• Mix the nuts, chocolate & cranberries together.

• Cream together the butter and Demerera sugar.
• Mix in the vanilla essence and the eggs.
• Mix in the nut mixture.
• Mix the baking powder with the flour.
• Gently fold in the flour.
• Put the mixture into the baking tray.
• Bake for around 30 – 35 minutes.
• Leave to cool in the tin.
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Cut into squares to serve.

Served on Queen Anne tea plates – design name unknown.

Updated on 27 July 2023

I used just white chocolate in the recipe and chopped almonds.

 

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