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Chestnut cake

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

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Last modified on: May 8^th 2020

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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

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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.

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.

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
2,772 Kcal or 11,606 Kj	35 gr	334 gr	154 gr
139 %	14 %	32 %	23 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
332 Kcal or 1,390 Kj	4 gr	40 gr	18 gr
17 %	2 %	4 %	3 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,772 Kcal or 11,606 Kj	35 gr	334 gr	154 gr
139 %	14 %	32 %	23 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 4.43 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pogne de Romans, Pavlova, Santiago Cake, Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", Caramelized brioche with pear and kiwi, ... All
	Noisette butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio madeleines, Chocolate madeleines, Génoise (Genoa sponge), Pistachio "Financiers", Lemon and lime cakes, ... All
	Chestnut flour: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Cookies of the Camisards, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Clementines and chestnuts entremet, Corsican tarts, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, ... All
	Sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Rice pudding with chestnuts and poached pears, Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Like MaronSui's, ... All

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