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<\/a><\/p>\nJohn Whaite makes a delicious pecan and orange loaf with figs recipe that goes well stilton cheese on Lorraine.<\/p>\n
John says: “This cake is a lot like carrot cake and makes perfect toast when it starts to go stale! And – believe it or not – it also goes really well with stilton cheese…”<\/p>\n
Ingredients: 250g salted butter, at room temperature, 400g light brown soft sugar, Zest of 2 medium oranges, 2 eggs, 300ml buttermilk (see below for alternative for this if needed), 1 tbsp vanilla bean paste or extract, 300g plain flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 2 tsp ground cinnamon, 200g pecans, chopped and 200g dried figs, roughly chopped.<\/p>\n
For the drizzle: 150g icing sugar, 200g full fat cream cheese and Zest and juice of 1 orange.<\/p>\n
To make the cake, preheat the oven to 170\u00b0C\/150\u00b0C fan\/Gas 3<\/p>\n
Place the softened butter in a mixing bowl and add the sugar and zest. Beat together until the sugar is well incorporated in the butter and it is fluffy.<\/p>\n
Add the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla and beat in. Sift over the flour, baking powder and cinnamon, and stir in until you have a smooth batter. Fold in the pecans and figs, then scoop into the greased ring shaped mould tin or loaf tin.<\/p>\n
Bake for 60\u201375 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool in the tin \u2013 this will help to create a gorgeous crust on the cake<\/p>\n
Beat together your \u2018drizzle\u2019 ingredients (icing sugar, cream cheese and orange juice and zest) until smooth and fairly runny. Drizzle over the baked round\/loaf cake.<\/p>\n