Berliner brot recipe



Berliner brot recipe from Nelliemoser

can make in advance vegetarian
Category Christmas recipes
Serves36 pieces. It is quite rich
Prep time30min ? mins
Cook time50-60+ mins

gransnetter ratings

Ease of finding ingredients 10
Ease of cooking10
Success with kidsn/a
Success with adults10
Overall Mark7.5

Ingredients

255g self-raising flour.
2 tsp ground cinnamon.
255g demerara sugar.
255g chopped mixed nuts.
85g dark chocolate (grated)
85g chopped mixed peel.
3 tbsp pear and apple spread
2 tbsp sherry.
2 med eggs
Water as needed. (I have never actually measured it properly)

Handy Hint

You will need to judge the time but usually about an hour. Pear and apple spread from wholefood shops. Nothing else would give that fruity flavour.

Method

1. Heat oven to 180C/Gas mark 4
2. Line and grease a tray bake tin (I use 18x28cm/11”x 7”)
3. Sieve together flour and cinnamon.
4. Mix together sugar, nuts, chocolate and cut mixed peel.
5. Gently warm pear and apple spread (to make it more runny) stir in the sherry then mix well into the nuts, peel and chocolate mixture.
6. Whisk together the eggs and water until frothy and add to the nut mixture, then stir in the flour and cinnamon and add enough extra water to make a soft dropping consistency.
7. Bake in the middle of the oven, (it might help to turn the oven down to 3 after about 20 minutes) until the top is cooked and springy to touch. 40 to 50 minutes. Keep checking, again I am not sure of the time.
8. A skewer should come out clean of mixture (but it may have some still melted grated chocolate on it0.
9. Put on a cooling tray for a time and cut into chunks about 4cm/2” square when warm but cool enough to handle.

gransnetter Reviews

From: Bags on Sun 30-Dec-12 13:03:23 Overall rating: 10.0
I love this recipe. It's so good, it will even replace my daily flapjacks on a regular basis.
From: Nelliemoser on Sat 15-Dec-12 22:33:01 Overall rating: 0.0
Its just very Christmassy in flavour. I have always cooked it just long enough! As with many cakes your own judgement needed. Amount of sherry can be to taste.