Chestnut Chocolate Marquise

Many pastry chefs do not like their recipes tinkered with. But as long as someone doesn’t say a recipe is mine after they fiddle with it, I have no problem with changes. Having others adapt my recipes lets me look at them from a new angle. This recipe began as Chestnut Cream in my first book, Stars Desserts. A friend and fellow pastry chef, Janet Rikala, played with that recipe to ma