This is a Samhain barmbrack in cookie form. The dough holds currants and golden sultanas soaked overnight in Irish breakfast tea, along with house-candied orange and lemon peel, toasted hazelnuts, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and clove. The center is a soft caramel made with the same tea, and the top is finished with a thin honey glaze and smoked flaky salt. Barmbrack once carried tokens that told your fortune for the coming year. Ours carries a printed fortune in the box instead.
Top: candied orange and lemon, tea-soaked fruit. Middle: black tea, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, clove. Base: toasted hazelnut, honey, caramel.