Chestnut cake
This delightful cake is doubly chestnutty: it contains chestnut flour, and sweet chestnut purée.
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Last modified on: May 8th 2020
Keywords for this recipe: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
How long does it take?
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.
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.
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.
Source
Home made.
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 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 cake : 4.72 $
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Blackberry and almond fondant tart, Gâteau Basque , Jelly-style plum jam, Chocolate cream, Pecan fruit rolls , ... All |
 | Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pan-fried scallops and chanterelles with Noilly Prat sauce, Celeriac in cream and mustard sauce, Crunchy blackcurrant and mascarpone cream verrine, Eggs with green asparagus and Parmesan cheese, Crusty cockle tart, ... All |
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Boeuf (beef) bourguignon, Pitta bread, Chocolate eclairs, Pistachio "Financiers", Nanou's apple and almond cake, ... All |
 | Noisette butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio madeleines, Pancake batter, Pistachio "Financiers", Grapefruit moelleux, Chocolate madeleines, ... All |
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