Ingredients
- 3 large Egg
- 50 grams Sugar
- 80 grams Chestnut cream
- 50 ml Vegetable oil (not healthy vegetable oil substitute)
- 30 ml Water
- 60 grams Plain flour
- 1 tsp Rum
Instructions
- Divide the egg yolks and whites.
- Weigh the ingredients.
- Sift the flour.
- Preheat the oven.
- Put egg yolks in a bowl and add the chestnut cream.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Add the ingredients little by little and stir constantly.
- Add rum and stir well.
- Sift the flour again into the bowl.
- Whisk slowly from the middle and out until everything is well mixed in.
- The cake batter will resemble a loose pancake batter.
- Make the meringue.
- Beat the egg whites.
- Add the sugar into 3 batches and add a portion to the egg whites at one time.
- Whisk constantly until stiff peaks form.
- Add 1/4 of the Step 6 meringue into Step 5 and mix well.
- Add 1/2 of the rest of the meringue and combine the top part of the batter and meringue very well.
- You don't need to whisk together the bottom part of the batter yet.
- Add the rest of the meringue and mix well with the top of the batter as you did at Step 8.
- Stop mixing when the batter and meringue are almost combined well!
- (the bottom part of the batter is not mixed in yet).
- Change to a spatula and scoop up the bottom part of the batter to mix (about 15 times).
- Mix until the brown coloured bits disappear and the mixture falls like ribbons when you lift the spatula.
- Pour the batter into a tin and spread the batter evenly by rotating the tin so that it spreads around evenly.
- Holding onto the middle and knock the tin several times to let the excess air out.
- Spread the batter on the side of the tin with a spatula.
- Bake at 180C for 13 minutes, then at 160C for 12 minutes.
- Once the surface starts to brown after 13 minutes, take the cake out of the oven and make 5 slits with a knife.
- After baking, taking the cake out of the oven straight away and place the cake upside-down on a mug cup to cool.
- When the center cylinder has cooled down, it is ready.
- Remove the cake from the tin by using a knife or skewer.
- Run a knife along the side of the tin tightly and you will remove the cake easily.
- If you bake the batter in cupcake liners, add 10 g of flour.
- You can make about 9 (fill the cups to 70% as the cake will rise).
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