Ravneet Gill’s recipe for mendiants with nuts and dried fruit

Quality control: Ravneet Gill’s chocolate mendiants with nuts and dried fruit. Photograph: Amy Currell/The Guardian. Food styling: Laurie Perry. Set design: Jess Morgan. Photo assistant: Alex Bibby.

These mendiants are old school: you can decorate them to look bejewelled, with the jade of Sicilian pistachios, the ruby-red of dried cranberries and garnet-hued apricots. I can’t think of a prettier homemade present.

Mendiants with nuts and dried fruit