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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Chinese and Mongolian >> Chinese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 7" round baking pan and dust lightly with flour. | 2. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. | 3. Beat egg yolks lightly and fold into egg white. Blend well. | 4. Sift together flour and salt. Add 1/3 flour mixture to egg mixture and mix well using light, swift actions. Repeat with the remaining flour mixture, mixing well after each addition. | 5. Add vanilla essence. Add melted butter and blend quickly. | 6. Pour batter into prepared baking pan and bake for 25 minute. | 7. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a rack. | 8. Filling:Place chestnuts in a saucepan and add enough water to cover them. Cook until soft. Drain, reserving the water. | 9. Mash chestnuts. | 10. Use 1/2 cup chestnut water or plain water to cook sugar. Then add butter, vanilla essence and milk to this. | 11. Add sugar and milk mixture to chestnuts and mix well. | 12. Slice sponge cake into two layers. | 13. Force chestnut filling through a potato masher and pile the strands of chestnut onto one cake. Place the other half over the chestnut filling, and pile the remaining chestnut filing on top of this. | 14. Cover with whipped cream. (I normally just sandwich all the filling between the two layers and serve decorated with dusted icing sugar, chocolate curls and some extra chestnuts. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	1/3	cup		192.76	42.2018	3.1337	0.7479
flour	1	tablespoon		192.76	42.2018	3.1337	0.7479
sugar	1/3	cup		268.66	67.1987	0.0	0.0
egg	3		separated	214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
salt	1/8	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
vanilla essence	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	2	tablespoons	melted	171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
chestnut	1		shelled peeled	-	-	-	-
sugar	1/2	cup		268.66	67.1987	0.0	0.0
water	1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
vanilla essence	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	tablespoon		171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
milk	2	tablespoons		18.3	1.4340000000000002	0.945	0.981

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.