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Chestnut cake is acake prepared usingchestnuts. Chestnut flour prepared from cooked, ground chestnuts is used in its preparation, along with additional typical cake ingredients. It is sometimes prepared as achocolate cake. Chestnuts are sometimes used in a frosting or glaze atop the cake, and it may be garnished with cooked or candied chestnuts. It can be prepared as a gluten-free dish.
Chestnut cake is prepared using chestnuts as the main ingredient. Chestnuts are ground into a flour for its preparation.[1][2] Higher quality chestnut flours for use in cake preparation may be white, rather than darker in coloration, the latter of which could be due to the chestnuts being incompletely peeled prior to grinding.[1] Chestnut cake can be prepared using wheat flour, with chestnut pieces used inside of the cake.[3] Additional ingredients may include typical cake ingredients such as flour, sugar, eggs and leavening.[2] Chestnut cake may be prepared as achocolate cake, and also as alayer cake[2][3] It has a distinct chestnut flavor.[4]
It is served as a dessert cake,[4] and some versions are topped withicing,ganache orwhipped cream.[2][3][4] Chestnuts may be included in the icing or frosting, such as in a chocolate-chestnut frosting.[2]Candied or cooked chestnuts may be added atop the cake as a garnish.[2]Distilled beverages such asbrandy andScotch whisky may be used as an ingredient in the frosting or icing.[4][5] It may be prepared as agluten-free dish using chestnut flour and rice flour.[6]
