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Chestnut log recipe
a French girl cuisine
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Prep Time
40
minutes
mins
Cook Time
10
minutes
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Total Time
50
minutes
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Course
Dessert
Cuisine
French
Servings
8
- 10
Ingredients
4
eggs
40
gr.
of melted butter
100
gr.
of maizena
kind of corn flour
100
gr.
of sugar
1
teaspoon
of vanilla exact
1
chesnut jam jar
80
gr.
of crushed hazelnut
100
gr.
of crumbled cooked chestnut
250
gr.
of mascarpone
2
tablespoons
of milk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Separate the egg white from the egg yolk.
Mix egg yolk with sugar. Add melted butter, vanilla and maïzena.
Beat white eggs until foamy. Incorporate with preparation.
Spread on top of baking tray covered with greaseproof paper.
Bake 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and put upside down straight away on another greaseproof paper. Remove carefully the paper used during baking process.
Cover genoise with 2/3 of chestnut jam then mascarpone.
Reserve some chestnuts and hazelnuts for the decoration and sprinkle the rest on top of the mascarpone. Roll genoise carefully using baking paper.
Cover with the rest of chestnut jam and sprinkle with reserved chestnut and hazelnuts.
You can also put some nice little meringues on top.