Chestnut cake
Chestnut cake

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chestnut cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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T&Cs foodscene.deliveroo.co.uk Combine the remaining chestnuts with the pine nuts and flaky sea salt in a small bowl and sprinkle them over the top of the cake. Located in Southeastern France, the Ardèche is a department famous for its valleys, trails, lush forests and abundance of chestnuts. Mix the flour, a pinch of salt and the sugar with enough cold water to obtain a soft but not too runny mixture. Pour the chestnut purée into a large mixing bowl.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chestnut cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chestnut cake:
  1. Prepare 3 cups all purpose flour
  2. Take 2 cups sugar
  3. Get 1 packet margarine
  4. Get 4 eggs
  5. Take 1 cup milk
  6. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
  7. Make ready 1 packet baking powder (20 g)
  8. Take 20 chestnuts boiled and peeled
  9. Make ready For the glaze
  10. Make ready 125 g couverture chocolate
  11. Take 4 tbsp icing sugar
  12. Make ready 2 tbsp milk
  13. Get 1 tbsp brandy
  14. Get 100 g butter

Stir in the vanilla and cognac. Add to the chestnut mix in the food processor, then whizz again until fairly smooth. Stir in the chocolate mixture and the chestnut purée until you have a smooth, blended batter. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold them carefully into the batter.

Steps to make Chestnut cake:
  1. Cream the sugar and the margarine until fluffy, for the cake.
  2. Add the eggs one by one.
  3. Sift the flour with the baking powder and the vanilla.
  4. Add the flour alternating with the milk into the egg mixture.
  5. Coat the chestnuts in flour, lightly, and add them to the mixture mixing softly.
  6. Place in a cake mold and bake at 180°C for about 40 minutes.
  7. To make the glaze, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie.
  8. Add the icing sugar, the milk, the brandy and mix.
  9. Add the butter little by little while mixing constantly until you have a smooth, glistering mixture.
  10. Remove from heat and pour it over the cake.

Stir in the chocolate mixture and the chestnut purée until you have a smooth, blended batter. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold them carefully into the batter. Chestnut flour tastes best mixed with other flours: allow about ten per cent chestnut flour in bread (it has no gluten so won't rise on its own). Mix to taste in cakes, batters and biscuits or add. Sift the chestnut flour with the baking powder and use a large metal spoon to cut and fold the flour into the mixture, gradually adding the milk when about half is folded in.

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