SodiumLightsTheHorizon.co.uk » chestnut http://sodiumlightsthehorizon.co.uk/cms Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:43:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Chocolate Chestnut Loaf http://sodiumlightsthehorizon.co.uk/cms/2009/12/chocolate-chestnut-loaf/ http://sodiumlightsthehorizon.co.uk/cms/2009/12/chocolate-chestnut-loaf/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:36:42 +0000 pjm http://sodiumlightsthehorizon.co.uk/cms/?p=438 This is Christmas to me. Sod the turkey, stuffing, mince pies or Christmas pudding. Every year my grandmother would make a dozen deserts. Curd cake, lemon freezer cake (coming soon), raspberry bomb (maybe coming soon) and chocolate chestnut were my favourites…

15.5oz / 440g can of unsweetened chestnut puree
6oz / 175g unsalted butter
4oz / 115g castor sugar
8oz / 230g plain chocolate (75% works well)
2 tbsp brandy

Melt chocolate over simmering water.

Beat butter in a bowl ’til creamy. Add sugar and beat it ’til light & fluffy. Add chestnut puree and beat it until thoroughly mixed.

Add melted chocolate and brandy. Mix thoroughly.

Get a 2lb loaf tin. Display just enough incompetence that your wife lines the tin with greaseproof and rub with butter.

Pour the whole lot in the tin, put some more paper on top, put some foil over the whole lot and stick it in the fridge for at least 8 hours.

Give the bowl & spatula to wife to clean as apology…

In unrelated news, while searching Flickr for a picture, I discovered this. Why did no-one tell me about this…?

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