Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chestnut cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chestnut cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chestnut cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
I baked the mini-cakes in these silicone molds. Topped with a rich chocolate ganache and served with rum whipped cream, it's a perfect dessert for special occasions. To assemble the cake: Using a serrated knife, cut the cake crosswise into four equal pieces.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chestnut cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chestnut cake:
- Get 3 cups all purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 packet margarine
- Get 4 eggs
- Take 1 cup milk
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Get 1 packet baking powder (20 g)
- Prepare 20 chestnuts boiled and peeled
- Get For the glaze
- Make ready 125 g couverture chocolate
- Make ready 4 tbsp icing sugar
- Take 2 tbsp milk
- Prepare 1 tbsp brandy
- Get 100 g butter
I think something Mimi and I have in common is our love for chestnut purée. The cake was dark and moist, almost like a pudding, and several in our group recreated this cake for Christmas dinner recently. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Castagnaccio, or Tuscan chestnut cake, is an autumn tradition in Italy.
Instructions 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.
This recipe would be a lovely addition to Thanksgiving dinner. Put the cubed butter in a saucepan with the honey and sugar and melt them together slowly. For the cake: Cut an x on the bottom of each chestnut. WE ARE NOW OPEN FOR TAKE-OUT! Thank you for your patience and patronage.
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