Are you up for a challenge? Let's make the Sienese panforte from scratch

Panforte is the Sienese Christmas fruit and nut cake. I'm sharing my perfect recipe to make an outstanding panforte from scratch.

Are you up for a challenge? What if you make panforte, the Sienese Christmas fruit and nut cake from scratch?

First, an excerpt from Nigel Slater’s The Christmas Chronicles about panforte.

To eat it straight from its white paper wrapper in daylight is to indulge only in its curiously chewable compounded figs and nuts. You need a certain sense of occasion…