Almost No-Bake Chestnut, Apple and Coffee Cake

Name: Almost No-Bake Chestnut, Apple and Coffee Cake
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Ingredients: 1–2 tablespoons icing (confectioners’) sugar; 5–6 tablespoons vanilla chestnut spread (creme de marrons); 120 g (4¼ oz) lightly salted butter, melted; 300 ml (10½ fl oz) thin (pouring/whipping) cream, well chilled; 2 tablespoons mascarpone cheese; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) very strong coffee; About 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) chocolate biscuits; 5 tart cooking apples

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

100 Desserts to Die For

By Trish Deseine

Published 2016

About

No baking (almost!) and not too sweet, this cake has everything going for it! Make sure you find the most chocolatey biscuits you can. Otherwise, add some cocoa powder with the butter at the beginning of the recipe.

Ingredients

5 tart cooking apples
About 600 g (1 lb 5

Soup
Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

PEEL THE APPLES, CUT THEM INTO SEGMENTS AND REMOVE THE SEEDS. Put them in a saucepan with a very small amount of water and cook over a medium heat for 10 minutes.

ONCE THE APPLES ARE NICE AND SOFT, PURÉE THEM UNTIL SMOOTH IN A BLENDER, THEN LET THEM COOL.

CRUSH THE BISCUITS AND COMBINE THEM WITH THE BUTTER. Line the bottom of a spring-form cake tin with this