Chestnut cake
This delightful cake is doubly chestnutty: it contains chestnut flour, and sweet chestnut purée.
322K 82 4.0
Last modified on: May 8th 2020
Keywords for this recipe:For 1 cake, you will need:
- 1
5.5 oz flour - 2
5.5 oz chestnut flour - 3
0.2 oz baking powder - 4
2 pinches salt - 5
3.5 oz Noisette butter - 6
3.5 oz sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons) - 7
3.5 oz liquid cream - 8
2 tablespoons rum - 9
5.3 oz caster sugar - 10
3 eggs
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 23 min. | 50 min. | 1 hour 13 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).
Sieve in a bowl 5.5 oz flour, 5.5 oz chestnut flour, 0.2 oz baking powder and 2 pinches salt.
Set aside.
Sieve in a bowl 5.5 oz flour, 5.5 oz chestnut flour, 0.2 oz baking powder and 2 pinches salt.
Set aside.
Stage 2 - 1 min.
In a container with high edges preferably (more convenient to pour then) pour the 3.5 oz Noisette butter.
Stage 3 - 4 min.
Then add 3.5 oz sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons), 3.5 oz liquid cream and 2 tablespoons rum, mix well and set aside.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
In the bowl of a mixer, pour 5.3 oz caster sugar then 3 eggs, and whisk, at medium speed first to mix, and then at high speed, until a white and light mixture is obtained.
Stage 5 - 3 min.
Slowly reduce the speed, then gently pour the previous mixture.
Stage 6
Stop as soon as the mix is homogeneous.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Pour the powder mix over it and stir it gently.
Your dough is ready.
Your dough is ready.
Stage 8 - 2 min.
Pour into a buttered cake pan.
Stage 9 - 50 min.
And cook for about 50 minutes, check cooking 5 minutes before the end.
Stage 10
Let cool on a wire rack.
Remarks
You can find chestnut flour in organic stores, it is very necessary to sieve it before using, because it has an unfortunate tendency to become lumpy.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,620 Kcal or 10,969 Kj | 35 gr | 334 gr | 133 gr |
| 131 % | 14 % | 32 % | 20 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 314 Kcal or 1,315 Kj | 4 gr | 40 gr | 16 gr |
| 16 % | 2 % | 4 % | 2 % |
| Per cake | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,620 Kcal or 10,969 Kj | 35 gr | 334 gr | 133 gr |
| 131 % | 14 % | 32 % | 20 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 cake : 4.43 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crème caramel, Cooking sugar, Lemon and lime custard tart, Almond dacquoise, Toffee apple upside-down cake, ... All |
 | Sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mini Mont-Blanc choux puffs, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Chestnut moelleux, Rice pudding with chestnuts and poached pears, ... All |
 | Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Frozen Nougat, Gratin with Parmesan flavours, Quiche filling mixture, Plum and almond panna cotta, Mushrooms on toast, French style, ... All |
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Wiener Schnitzel, Panettone, Mascarpone fondant with two lemons, Far Normandy-Brittany, Kugelhof for Nanou, ... All |
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