Ardéchois

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 100 g butter
• 2 2 eggs
• 3 50 g caster sugar
• 4 200 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons)
• 5 1 tablespoon rum (optional)
• 6 100 g flour
• 7 3 g baking powder
• 8 2 pinches salt
• 9 1 tablespoon icing sugar (optional)
• Total weight: 555 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
20 min.	45 min.	1 hour

Step by step recipe

1	Melt (microwave or bain-marie) 100 g butter, and set aside.
2	Preheat oven to 160°C (320°F). Pour 2 eggs and 50 g caster sugar into a bowl and whisk to combine.
3	Pour in the melted butter, 200 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons) and 1 tablespoon rum. Mix well. Note: Keep the butter container for buttering the mould in step 6.
4	Sift 100 g flour, 3 g baking powder and 2 pinches salt into the bowl.
5	Mix well again.
6	Brush a 20 cm (8-inch) diameter mould with butter, using the melted butter from step 1 if possible, and place a circle of baking paper on the bottom. This is not essential, but it makes unmoulding much easier.
7	Pour the batter into the mould.
8	Bake for approximately 40 minutes (check after 35 minutes).
9	Leave to cool, and decorate with powdered sugar if desired.

Remarks

For an even more distinctive version, replace half the flour with chestnut flour.
You can replace the rum with whisky, which goes very well with chestnuts.

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