Chestnut cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	50 min.	1 hour 15 min.

Step by step recipe

1	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.
2	In a container with high edges preferably (more convenient to pour then) pour the 100 g noisette butter.
3	Then add 100 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons), 100 g liquid cream and 2 tablespoons rum, mix well and set aside.
4	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.
5	Slowly reduce the speed, then gently pour the previous mixture.
6	Stop as soon as the mix is homogeneous.
7	Pour the powder mix over it and stir it gently. Your dough is ready.
8	Pour into a buttered cake pan. Note: As always with cakes, if you want a nice opening on top when baking, try this very effective trick.
9	And cook for about 50 minutes, check cooking 5 minutes before the end.
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.

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