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 ...

Christmas baking is all about keeping the work to a minimum and the flavour to the max ...

The video features a recipe for a chestnut cake using Genoise sponge, highlighting English and Japanese subtitles for ...

Note: Piero Antinori says: “It is a very old tradition in Tuscany to eat chestnuts. We enjoy them boiled or roasted with the new wines. In the countryside, they still make a sort of chestnut polenta ...

Heat the oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 4. Butter a loose-bottom cake tin about 20cm x 8 cm (8in x 3 ¼ in). Line the base and sides with baking paper, and also cut out a circle for the top of the cake. In ...

My grandmother Ginny's signature dish was quail braised with chestnuts, served on polenta or grits. She was Louisianan and had emigrated to Italy, and I suppose the dish — game, cornmeal and the ...