Chestnut cake with chocolate - Savoury Trips

Ingredients

• 65 gr of chestnut flour (you can use any sharp flour as a substitute)
• 65 gr of white flour
• 30 gr of orange juice (1,5 orange)
• 100 gr marzipan (store-bought)
• 150 gr of chestnuts (or chestnut puree)
• 100 gr of butter
• 3 eggs
• 75 gr of sugar
• 1 baking powder
• 30 gr of sweet cream (room temperature)
• CHOCOLATE TOPPING (bigger measure):
• 250 ml of sweet cream
• 4-5 spoons of cocoa
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour
• 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar
• 30 gr of butter
• 270 gr of dark chocolate
• dry and stone fruit for decoration
• Heat up the oven at 190°C. In a separate bowl, mix together marzipan (previously cut into smaller pieces), sugar, and chestnut.
• Gradually add butter and whisked eggs to that mixture.
• Then, add sifted flour, mixed with baking powder and orange juice. All the ingredients should be mixed well and sweet cream at room temperature added.
• Coat the moulds with butter. Bake in the heated oven for about 40 minutes.
• While the cake is baking, we are preparing the chocolate topping.
• Warm up the sweet cream, vanilla favour, powdered sugar and cocoa in a pot.
• Once the mixture reaches 100°C, it should be taken off the stove and poured over chocolate. Stir until the chocolate melts.
• At the end, add butter and take the hand blender and mix everything to be without bubbles and lumps.
• Once the cakes are baked, take them out of the moulds and pour the chocolate over while they are still warm.
• I decorated the cake with dry fruit and nuts. While serving, I put the chocolate topping under and over the cake. Altogether, the cake was amazing!
• ENJOY!