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Chestnut cake

This delightful cake is doubly chestnutty: it contains chestnut flour, and sweet chestnut purée.

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Last modified on: May 8^th 2020

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For 1 cake, you will need:

1 100 g flour
2 100 g chestnut flour
3 5 g baking powder
4 2 pinches salt
5 100 g Noisette butter
6 100 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons)
7 100 g liquid cream
8 2 tablespoons rum
9 150 g caster sugar
10 3 eggs
Total weight: 835 grams

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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 100 g flour, 100 g chestnut flour, 5 g 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 100 g Noisette butter.

Stage 3 - 4 min.

Then add 100 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons), 100 g liquid cream and 2 tablespoons rum, mix well and set aside.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

In the bowl of a mixer, pour 150 g 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.

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 %

% 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 4.43 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramel rice pudding, Lemon creams, Little apple and verbena tarts, Warm apple feuillantines, Vanilla ice cream, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pitta bread, Fruit crumble, Pistachio shortbread biscuits, Sweet pastry, Génoise (Genoa sponge), ... All
	Noisette butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Financier batter, Pistachio "Financiers", Pancake batter, Chocolate madeleines, Grapefruit moelleux, ... All
	Chestnut flour: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Corsican tarts, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Cookies of the Camisards, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Clementines and chestnuts entremet, ... All

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