Chestnut cream recipe

Known in French as “crème de marrons”, chestnut cream is the ultimate Christmas comfort food in France. Sweet, creamy and nutty, kids and adults enjoy this golden spread on toasts, waffles, crêpes, or stirred into yogurts. It is also the star ingredients of some classic French desserts, like the fancy Mont Blanc or simpler Gâteau Ardéchois (Chestnut Cream Cake). Chestnut cream is sold in tubes or cans in France and can be found in most grocery stores. But for those in the US or Canada who…

This pudding takes the best part of a traditional mont blanc—the chestnuts—and dispenses with the fussy meringue, so you can enjoy chestnuts in all their toasty glory, with no distractions.

This old-fashioned chestnut cream recipe has been passed down for generations. It's delicious garnished with chocolate curls.

Known in French as “crème de marrons”, chestnut cream is the ultimate Christmas comfort food in France. Sweet, creamy and nutty, kids and adults enjoy this golden spread on toasts, waffles, crêpes, or stirred into yogurts. It is also the star ingredients of some classic French desserts, like the fancy Mont Blanc or simpler Gâteau Ardéchois (Chestnut Cream Cake). Chestnut cream is sold in tubes or cans in France and can be found in most grocery stores. But for those in the US or Canada who…

This is a simple sweet chestnut spread for toast, crepes, waffles, etc...

What do you do when you see a madeleine recipe you really want to try but don't have a madeleine pan? You improvise... Naturally, I thought of using a mini muffin tin but then I had the idea that it might be nice to bake the batter in mini tart tins. So that's what I did, turning what should have been madeleines into what I'll call, tea cakes. A couple of my tea cakes are about 2 1/2 inches in diameter while the others (4 larger ones in my small batch) were slightly bigger at about 3 1/2…

Simple recipe for Mont blanc, the most delicious chestnut dessert. In this variation, a velvety white chocolate custard and some savoiyardi biscuits are paired with an easy chestnut cream.

I started sitting down to write this post right after I just ate the last piece of this cake. I think the overriding thought I have is that a little dessert - a little something sweet - just makes the day a bit better. So since it's February and Valentine's day is circled in red on the calendar, and more importantly, because chocolate is a beautiful part of my everyday life that I wouldn't want to live without, let's make and savor another chocolate cake and make life just a touch sweeter…

When I was a child, and it rained over night, we would go to the nearest forest and search for “cepes”. Cepes are big mushrooms similar to portobello that seem to pop up after a good ra…

Vegan and traditional vesrsions of Crème de Marrons