Hello Aisha, thanks so much for trying the recipe. The chestnut cream can definitely be on the thick side, so don’t worry too much about that. My husband calls it chestnut cement, so, yes… It’s thick 🙂

Anyways, I apologize for the late reply, I was on a little vacation. Truly hope you enjoyed the cake!

Let me know how that works out for you. It legitimately could just be those specific eggs, for whatever reason. Trying out another “type” will tell us for sure.

These eggs were from a neighbor, various chicken/duck varieties. They’ve never seemed too old to me, but I’ve never tried to whip the whites before. I can try with different eggs, and also try a little of the sugar next time. We’ll see. Thank you.

Quite an odd situation that I haven’t found my eggs to give me, Emerieta. Do you source your eggs from one place/farm in specific? All that said, here’s what I’d do in your situation… Just add a few (1 or 2) teaspoons of the sugar to the whites to see if that helps. You don’t need super firm peaks, try perhaps stopping right before it gets to the firm point as well.

Lastly, without knowing your process, do you gradually raise the speed to high when beating, or go straight to high? Try a more gradual approach and see if it helps. It’s a situation I’d love to help with, but is new to me as well. Best of luck!

Thanks Audrey! I will definitely let you know.

Hello Barbara! In many cases, a cake can be scaled down to mini loaves “without problem” minus the biggest problem of them all, which you mentioned – time! While I haven’t made these into smaller loaves, I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t work, And I think the 20min mark is a good starting point to give them a check. I’d actually peak through the oven window at around 15min just to see where I’m at, but I’d assume I’d start toothpick checking around the 20min mark. Hope they work out and would love to hear how long they actually took for you!

Not sure about the timing, guess I would just have to watch it closely. 20-25 min. maybe?

Thank you so very much, Akshaya, I am thrilled that you enjoyed this cake. I absolutely love it as well and am a touch confused as to the low ratings myself, but I have learned over time to ignore the rating as much as I can, and try to focus on the reviews themselves or just by trusting a certain website/cook/chef.

Please enjoy a slice for me, with your coffee! I’m definitely going to have to whip up another one of these sooner than later 🙂