Chestnut cake

Name: Chestnut cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 cups all purpose flour; 2 cups sugar; 1 packet margarine; 4 eggs; 1 cup milk; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 packet baking powder (20 g); 20 chestnuts boiled and peeled; 125 g couverture chocolate; 4 tbsp icing sugar; 2 tbsp milk; 1 tbsp brandy; 100 g butter

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Recipe by lenale

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Recipe by lenale

Saved

Ingredients

3 cupsall purpose flour
2 cupssugar
1 packetmargarine
4eggs
1 cupmilk
1 tspvanilla
1 packetbaking powder (20 g)
20chestnuts boiled and peeled
For the glaze
125 gcouverture chocolate
4 tbspicing sugar
2 tbspmilk
1 tbspbrandy
100 gbutter

Saved

Steps

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.