Ingredients
- 250 grams dark chocolate, broken into pieces
- 6 pieces eggs, separated
- 100 grams Butter, soften
- 50 grams raw sugar
- 200 grams Chestnut meal
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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Preheat oven at 180C. Grease and line a 6cm deep, 19cm x 10cm base loaf pan.
To make the chestnut meal, place toasted chestnut kernels into mixing bowl and mill 1-2 mins/speed 9, weigh 200gm and put aside.
Clean and dry mixing bowl.
Place chocolate into mixing bowl and grate 10 sec/speed 8, Scrape down side of bowl.
Melt chocolate 2 mins /50C/speed 3. Put aside and keep warm as chocolate will harden back when cool.
Separate the 6 egg whites and yolks.
Clean and dry mixing bowl.
Insert butterfly. Place egg whites and a salt into mixing bowl and whip 3-4mins/50C/speed 4 until stiff peaks form. Pour into another bowl and put aside.
Clean and dry mixing bowl
Place sugar into mixing bowl and mill 10sec/speed 9
Add butter and melt 30sec/90C/speed 1, then mix 1 min/speed 3
With blade rotating, add in egg yolk through hole in mixing bowl lid.
Add in chestnut meal (leaving about a 30gms for topping) and melted chocolate and mix 15 secs/speed 3.
Pour mixture into normal mixing bowl. Put a small amount of the whipped egg white to the chocolate mixture and mix until combined. Add the remaining whipped egg white chocolate mixture and fold through gently until just combined. ( Do not overmix or the cake won’t be light and fluffy).
Transfer mixture to prepared loaf pan and place in the oven for 40 – 60 minutes (or until an inserted skewer comes out clean).
Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Remove from loaf pan and serve topped with the remaining 30gms chestnut meal.
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Tip
If you are a `sweet' person, the amount of sugar can be increased another 10gm
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Recipe is created forTM 31
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Comments
Can you please clarify egg yolk step? Do you add 1 egg yolk or all egg yolks? Thanks!
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