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Chestnut cake

Name: Chestnut cake
Prep time: 23 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 13 min
Yield: 1 cake
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 100 g flour; 100 g chestnut flour; 5 g baking powder; 2 pinches salt; 100 g noisette butter; 100 g sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons); 100 g liquid cream; 2 tablespoons rum; 150 g caster sugar; 3 eggs

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

357 K 4.0/5 (82 reviews)

1 hour 15 min. difficulté

Easy

4.45 €

1 cake

10 Ingredients

Last modified on: August 28^th 2025

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 for this recipe

Preparation: 25 min.

Cooking: 50 min.

All in all: 1 hour 15 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.

Note: As always with cakes, if you want a nice opening on top when baking, try this very effective trick.

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

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	40 RDI=10 %	330 RDI=30 %	150 RDI=20 %	2,770 RDI=140 %	11,610 RDI: 140 %
Per 100 g	4 RDI=2 %	40 RDI=4 %	20 RDI=3 %	330 RDI=20 %	1,390 RDI: 20 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, milk, egg

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 4.45 €

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