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Poverty Style White Bean, Chestnut And Apricot Cake

Cuisine: Italian
Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

5 cups 800g / 28ozCooked white beans
1/2 cup 31g / 1.1ozAll-purpose flour
4   Eggs - separated
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozSugar
1/2 cup 118mlHoney
5   Marron glaces - (candied chestnuts), roughly chopped
1/4 cup 59mlThinly-sliced dried apricots
2 tablespoons 30mlBaking powder

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a 9-inch spring form pan.

In a food processor, blend beans until smooth. Pour into a mixing bowl and add flour and egg yolks and mix well. Add sugar, honey, chestnuts, dried apricots and baking powder and stir to mix well.

Whip egg whites to soft peaks and fold the bean mixture into the whites. Pour mixture into buttered pan and bake in oven for 50 minutes to an hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool to room temperature and serve.

Source:
MOLTO MARIO with Mario Batali From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # MB-5644)

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