List of recipes using Sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons): 9 recipes (without meat)

Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits

Here's a really simple recipe for little nutty biscuits, combining hazelnuts with a double dose of chestnut flavour: flour and purée (crème de marrons).
February 28^th 202129 K3 2 hours 1 min.

Chestnut cake

This delightful cake is doubly chestnutty: it contains chestnut flour, and sweet chestnut purée.
May 8^th 2020330 K5 1 hour 15 min.

Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes

This recipe allows you to enjoy a delicious brownie-style combination of melting fudgy texture and cake, with the distinct flavours of chocolate and chestnut purée.
January 31^th 201667 K5 55 min.

Chestnut moelleux

"Moelleux" means soft, and is also the name given to the gooey, soft-centred cakes that are popular in France. These muffin-style cakes are doubly chestnutty: there is chestnut purée in the mixture and pieces of marrons glacés (candied chestnuts) in the middle as well. The result is a little...
February 11^th 201847 K 15 1 hour 15 min.

Chestnut mousse in a whipper

In France, chestnut mousse is sometimes called "Mousse Mont Blanc". It is a delicious combination of whipped cream with chestnut purée, traditionally mixed in very gently. Here is a simple, rapid version, made with a cream whipper.
October 18^th 202049 K 9 min.

Like MaronSui's

Perhaps you've heard of "MaronSui's", those chestnut mousses you find in shops? Here's a much better homemade version, easy enough to make.
May 26^th 20249,247 2 2 hours 30 min.

Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines

This is a fresh-flavoured verrine with 3 different flavoured layers: vanilla panna cotta, clementine and chestnut mousse.
December 11^th 2022179 K 13.5 25 min.

Mini Mont-Blanc choux puffs

These mini choux puffs are topped with a layer of craquelin and filled with Mont-Blanc cream: a mixture of whipped cream and sweetened chestnut purée.
March 17^th 201956 K 1 hour 45 min.

Rice pudding with chestnuts and poached pears

A rice pudding a bit atypical, no sugar added, but chestnut cream instead, and served in a verrine with diced poached pears.
November 22^th 202314 K 1 hour 30 min.