Walnut and chestnut cake

AUTHOR
Reed Chan
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 1 Organic Orange
  • 100 g lightly salted, soft butter
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Honey
  • 1 TABLESPOON Walnut oil
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Chestnut cream
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated nutmeg
  • 160 g Flour
  • 2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder
  • 200 g Walnut kernels
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash orange hot and rub half of the peel. Use the rest of the orange for other purposes. Mix butter, sugar, honey, oil, orange peel and chestnut cream with the whisk of the hand mixer.

  2. 2

    Stir in eggs one by one and season the dough with a little nutmeg. Mix flour and baking powder and stir in.

  3. 3

    Roughly chop the walnuts. Fold about 2/3 of the walnuts into the dough. Pour the dough into a greased and floured springform pan (24 cm Ø), sprinkle with the remaining walnuts and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see

  4. 4

    manufacturer) bake for 30-40 minutes (chopstick sample).

  5. 5

    Take the cake out of the oven, sprinkle with liqueur. Remove from the mould and let it cool on a cake rack.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
300 kcal
CARBS
23 g
FATS
20 g
PROTEINS
6 g