Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chestnut cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chestnut cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chestnut cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
I baked the mini-cakes in these silicone molds. To assemble the cake: Using a serrated knife, cut the cake crosswise into four equal pieces. Repeat with two more layers, placing the fourth layer on top. Pour the frosting over the top of the cake and spread it to cover.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chestnut cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chestnut cake:
- Get 3 cups all purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Take 1 packet margarine
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Take 1 cup milk
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Take 1 packet baking powder (20 g)
- Take 20 chestnuts boiled and peeled
- Take For the glaze
- Prepare 125 g couverture chocolate
- Take 4 tbsp icing sugar
- Take 2 tbsp milk
- Prepare 1 tbsp brandy
- Make ready 100 g butter
Castagnaccio, or Tuscan chestnut cake, is an autumn tradition in Italy. This cake has a rich and almost nutty flavour from its roasted chestnuts. Put the cubed butter in a saucepan with the honey and sugar and melt them together slowly. This unleavened chestnut dessert tastes like a cross between a slightly sweet cake and a flatbread, and usually appears on fall tables in Tuscany.
Steps to make Chestnut cake:
- Cream the sugar and the margarine until fluffy, for the cake.
- Add the eggs one by one.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder and the vanilla.
- Add the flour alternating with the milk into the egg mixture.
- Coat the chestnuts in flour, lightly, and add them to the mixture mixing softly.
- Place in a cake mold and bake at 180°C for about 40 minutes.
- To make the glaze, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie.
- Add the icing sugar, the milk, the brandy and mix.
- Add the butter little by little while mixing constantly until you have a smooth, glistering mixture.
- Remove from heat and pour it over the cake.
Put the cubed butter in a saucepan with the honey and sugar and melt them together slowly. This unleavened chestnut dessert tastes like a cross between a slightly sweet cake and a flatbread, and usually appears on fall tables in Tuscany. Using ingredients like olive oil and rosemary gives it a savory note that makes it an excellent addition to your dessert table for a little earthy contrast. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl. We're still here for all of your take-out needs!
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