Fig and Date Ricotta Cake
Brilliant chef Antony Worrall Thompson has donated to TREE AID this delicious tree cake. Antony: "Villagers in Africa know all about foraging for food for free in their woodlands. Using the most nutritious of these foods could go a long way to reversing malnutrition. I want people to have fun cooking my tree cake and finding out about TREE AID's work to help villagers grow important food trees." Go to Treeaidcakebake.org to download your FREE recipe booklet and get baking for TREE AID!
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 13 of 15 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Pine | 1 oz (28g) | 191 |
| Ricotta Cheese | 1/2 cup (124g) part-skim | 174 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Dates | 1 date (24g) medjool | 66 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Dried Fig | 1 medium (50g) | 37 |
| Fig | 1 medium (50g) | 37 |
| Walnut | 1 walnut half (4g) | 26 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Rosemary | 1 tsp dried (1.2g) | 4 |
| Syrup | not in our table | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 250g (8 oz) of soft unsalted butter
- 250g (8 oz) caster sugar
- 8 eggs
- 2 oranges
- 3 lemons
- 125g (5 oz) roasted pinenuts
- 200g (7oz) of chopped dried dates
- 200 g (7oz) chopped dried figs
- 275g (9 oz) ricotta
- 75g (3 oz) plain flour
- For the syrup;
- 125g (5oz) sugar
- 125g (5oz) water
- 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1oz (25g) of toasted pine nuts
- 1oz (25g) dried fig (fresh if you can get it)