Chestnut cake
This delightful cake is doubly chestnutty: it contains chestnut flour, and sweet chestnut purée.
321K 82 4.0
Last modified on: May 8th 2020
Keywords for this recipe:For 3 cakes, you will need:
- 1
468 ml flour - 2
468 ml chestnut flour - 3
15 ml baking powder - 4
6 pinches salt - 5
300 ml Noisette butter - 6
300 ml sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons) - 7
300 ml liquid cream - 8
6 tablespoons rum - 9
450 ml caster sugar - 10
9 eggs
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 468 ml flour, 468 ml chestnut flour, 15 ml baking powder and 6 pinches salt.
Set aside.
Sieve in a bowl 468 ml flour, 468 ml chestnut flour, 15 ml baking powder and 6 pinches salt.
Set aside.
Stage 2 - 1 min.
In a container with high edges preferably (more convenient to pour then) pour the 300 ml Noisette butter.
Stage 3 - 4 min.
Then add 300 ml sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons), 300 ml liquid cream and 6 tablespoons rum, mix well and set aside.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
In the bowl of a mixer, pour 450 ml caster sugar then 9 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 |
| 7,861 Kcal or 32,912 Kj | 106 gr | 1,003 gr | 400 gr |
| 393 % | 41 % | 95 % | 61 % |
| 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 3 cakes : 13.29 €
- Per cake : 4.43 €
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: Butter cream, Pear charlotte, Warm apple feuillantines, Stewed rhubarb, Almond dacquoise, ... All |
 | Noisette butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Génoise (Genoa sponge), Financier batter, Lemon and lime cakes, Chocolate madeleines, Grapefruit moelleux, ... All |
 | Chestnut flour: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Corsican tarts, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Clementines and chestnuts entremet, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Cookies of the Camisards, ... All |
 | Sweet chestnut purée (crème de marrons): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Chestnut moelleux, Rice pudding with chestnuts and poached pears, Chestnut mousse in a whipper , Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, ... All |
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