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Chestnut log recipe

a French girl cuisine
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
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.