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Chestnut cake

This delightful cake is doubly chestnutty: it contains chestnut flour, and pieces of glacé chestnuts are incorporated in the dough.

234,5113.9/5 for 15 ratings

Last modified on: October 13^th 2010

For 1 cake, you will need:

1 125 g flour
2 125 g chestnut flour
3 125 g butter
4 125 g caster sugar
5 4 eggs
6 1 sachet baking powder
7 100 g marrons glacés (candied chestnuts) (optional)
8 1 pinch salt
Total weight: 810 grams

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
23 min.	30 min.	53 min.

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Put in a bowl or the bowl of your food processor, 125 g butter and 125 g caster sugar.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Cream together.

Stage 3 - 7 min.

Add 4 eggs then sieve 125 g chestnut flour, add 1 sachet baking powder, 125 g flour, and finally 1 pinch salt and 100 g marrons glacés (candied chestnuts) cut small.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Mix until you obtain a smooth and homogeneous mixture.

Preheat oven to 392°F (200°C).

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Pour the mixture into a cake mould, and put in the oven for about 30/40 minutes.

Stage 6 - 30 min.

Check cooking after 30 minutes.

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.

If you are making a cake for adults (I just mean "that will not be eaten by children"), I recommend you soak the glacé chestnuts for an hour or two in a little whisky, and then incorporate a tablespoonful of this soaking whisky into the mixture. Use any whisky left over to make Irish coffee.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,721 Kcal or 11,392 Kj	41 gr	345 gr	131 gr
136 %	16 %	33 %	20 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
336 Kcal or 1,407 Kj	5 gr	43 gr	16 gr
17 %	2 %	4 %	2 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,721 Kcal or 11,392 Kj	41 gr	345 gr	131 gr
136 %	16 %	33 %	20 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 6.29 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Almond tuiles, Little Christmas biscuits, Biscuit de Savoie sponge cake, Sweet pastry, Flamiche, ... All
	Chestnut flour: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Corsican tarts, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Artichoke hearts forestier , Pilau rice, Roscoff loaf, Gratin Dauphinois, Moist Lemon Cake, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Brioche galette, Milk rolls, Lemon and lime custard tart, Fresh mint ice-cream, Flaked almond tart, ... All

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