Chestnut Cupcakes didn't work
Asked on 19 Dec 2018 by Julie J
I'm making the chestnut cupcakes from the Happy Christmas recipe book. I didn't have sweetened chestnut puree in the store cupboard so I used unsweetened and added caster sugar as per the instructions on the tin. I used the correct weight of the sweetened puree for the recipe. They haven't come out right at all. The cupcakes haven't risen and they are swimming in grease inside the paper cases. Yuck! Surely this shouldn't make a difference? And I bought very expensive marron glaces specially to decorate them. Any suggestions as to what could have gone wrong? Julie J
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Hello Julie J,
I’ve only made these with the Clement Faugier Crème de Marron.
I think your homemade sweetened chestnut puree mixture must have been a different consistency to the Crème de Marron which is quite soft a syrupy.
Sorry that it didn’t work out for you.
Lindsey
Thanks for the reply. They actually tasted fine, if a bit stodgy, once they'd cooled. I've loads of the topping left (I would suggest you halve the quantities on that!) so I'm going to try again mixing the chestnut flour with Dove's Farm GF flour as per a couple of other chestnut flour recipes I've tried and see what results we get. I'll report back. I'll look out for some of that brand of creme de marron though.
I've been hunting for that brand of Creme de Marron and there seems to be both a 'vanille' creme and a creme de marron spread ( like nutella presumably?). Can you please confirm which one you used?
Vanilla is the one we use.