Divine Chestnut & Chocolate Birthday Cake

Name: Divine Chestnut & Chocolate Birthday Cake
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: International
Ingredients: 220ml Milk; 140g Butter; 3 Medium Eggs; 150g Chopped Peeled Chestnuts; 70g Divine 70% Dark Chocolate; 220g Plain Flour; 265g Soft Brown Sugar; 1 tablespoon Golden Syrup; 2 level tspns Baking Powder; 1 Vanilla Pod, chopped finely; ½ level tspn Bicarbonate of Soda; 1 pinch Salt

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Cook: 60 mins

Serves: 10

Ingredients

220ml Milk
140g Butter
3 Medium Eggs
150g Chopped Peeled Chestnuts
70g Divine 70% Dark Chocolate
220g Plain Flour
265g Soft Brown Sugar
1 tablespoon Golden Syrup
2 level tspns Baking Powder
1 Vanilla Pod, chopped finely
½ level tspn Bicarbonate of Soda
1 pinch Salt

Accompaniment

Description

For Divine CHOCOLATE, by Arthur Potts Dawson

Method

1
Preheat oven to 190°C: 370°F: Gas 5. Sift together all dry ingredients. Place the Divine 70% Dark Chocolate and milk into a bowl over warm heated water and allow to melt. Mix the butter and sugar together until creamy. Beat the eggs and slowly pour in to the creamed butter and sugar, add 20g of the flour now. Stir in the golden syrup and chopped chestnuts and vanilla, mixing well. Fold in the remaining flour. Gradually add the chocolate mixture to form a thick batter. Pour into a buttered, floured 10 inch cake tin. Bake for1hr. Turn out on to a cake rack grate some more plain chocolate over the top of the warm cake, this will melt and create a lovely topping and now allow to cool.