Cook Time: 30-35 minutes
What you need
- 150g Odlums self-raising flour
- 5g Odlums baking powder
- 200g mixed peel
- 350g Shamrock mixed nuts (cashews, pecans, walnuts & pistachios, roughly chopped )
- 150g dried fruit
- 200g chocolate ( 100g dairy milk & 100g dark chocolate )
- 100g Shamrock ground almonds
- 50g cocoa
- 3g cinnamon
- 2g mixed spice
- 250g Honey
- 150g Brown sugar
- 7g Goodalls Vanilla Extract
- 300g Condensed milk

Recipe Steps
- Line a 20cm x 30cm flat tin with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 175℃/ Gas Mark 3.
- Combine the Odlums self-raising flour with the Odlums baking powder. in a bowl. Add the cocoa. Toss in the mixed peel, dried fruit and mixed nuts.
- In a saucepan over a very low heat, gently warm the honey, brown sugar and condensed milk stirring all the time with a spatula or a wooden spoon. DO NOT LET IT BURN.
- Break in the chocolate and allow this to melt in. Sprinkle in the spice and stir well.
- Pour the melted chocolate sweet mixture over the dry ingredients.
- Combine well. Spoon the mixture into the lined flat tin. Spread out well and push into all the corners.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes. When baked, allow to cool fully for several hours. Dust with icing sugar. ( a little edible gold dust if optional).
- Dip a long sharp knife into boiling water and cut the full rectangle into 16 or 20 squares.
- Wrap in parchment paper or Christmas paper and wrap up with some velvet ribbon.
- Store in an airtight container for 1 week, in the fridge for 2 weeks or freeze for up to 1 month.
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