Caroline Quentin's gluten free chestnut cake recipe
Looking for a gluten free cake recipe? Look no further than Caroline Quentin's sublime chestnut cake.
Key information
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 40-50 minutes
Serves:10
Recipe difficulty rating: Medium
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Ingredients
4 large free range eggs
240g soft brown sugar
240g chestnut flour, sifted twice
240g unsalted butter, melted
100ml Marsala
½ tsp cinnamon
How to prepare gluten free chestnut cake
- Preheat oven to 160°C fan/180°C /350F/gas mark 4.
- Melt the butter and set aside.
- Sift the chestnut flour twice with the ground cinnamon.
- Place the eggs and sugar in bowl of a food mixer and whisk until mousse-like and to ribbon stage (about 5 mins).
- Very gently fold in chestnut flour, followed by the butter and then finally the Marsala until completely mixed but being careful not to knock the air out.
- Pour into the lined tin and bake for 40-50 mins, until golden, the top is springy and a skewer comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven, cool in the tin for 10 mins then turn out on to a wire rack to cool completely.