Date, orange and olive oil cake with salted white chocolate ice cream (Shane Delia)

Salted white chocolate ice cream

• 175 g sugar
• 250 g water
• 500 g white chocolate, broken into pieces
• 8 egg yolks
• 500 g pouring (whipping) cream (see Tips)
• 1 pinch salt

Date, orange and olive oil cake

• olive oil, for greasing
• 1 orange, zest only, no white pith
• 1 lemon, zest only, no white pith
• 50 g panko breadcrumbs
• 125 g almonds
• 125 g caster sugar
• 1 tsp ras el hanout (see Tips)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 40 g freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 80 g freshly squeezed orange juice
• 55 g white sugar
• 6 pitted Medjool dates
• 1 cinnamon quill
• 8 - 10 cardamom pods
• 2 star anise