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Chestnut cake

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

264,7833.9/5 for 62 ratings

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Last modified on: May 8^th 2020

For 1 cake, you will need:

0 100 g flour
1 100 g chestnut flour
2 5 g baking powder
3 2 pinches salt
4 100 g Noisette butter
5 100 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons)
6 100 g liquid cream
7 2 tablespoons rum
8 150 g caster sugar
9 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.

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).

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 4.43 €

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Source

Home made.

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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: Sicilian Epiphany Pie, Caramelised walnuts, Tiramisu, You should not leave egg yolks in contact with sugar, Chocolate and vanilla crème brûlée, ... All
	Sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Chestnut moelleux, Mini Mont-Blanc choux puffs, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Chestnut mousse in a whipper , ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lemon and lime cakes, Strawberry, kiwi and mascarpone verrines, Langoustine gratin, Apple Batter Puddings, Spicy mustard cauliflower cheese, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cramique, Fillet of salmon meunière, Diamond biscuits, Hazelnut and orange cake, Sesame cookies, ... All

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