You will need an 8-in loose-bottomed cake pan, buttered. Preheat the oven 325ºF. To make the chocolate sponge cake, place the milk and the chopped chestnuts in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium ...

This makes a fabulous dessert for an elegant holiday dinner. The chestnut cake is layered with a chestnut-studded chocolate-caramel ganache, glazed with chocolate and topped with gold-dusted, whole ...

Water chestnut cake is a sweet Cantonese dim sum snack made of Chinese water chestnut shreds or powder. The best water chestnuts are said to be produced in Pantang in western Guangzhou. The cake is ...

This chestnut cake is from Paul Aratow’s translation of “La Bonne Cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange,” a book that has often been called the “French ‘Joy of Cooking.’” Make a cut around the perimeter of ...

This flat dense cake is served in Italy with coffee. As much as I love chestnuts, they can be heavy and dense, even as flour. Here verjuice gives the palate a lift while the heavy chestnut flour ...