This cake looks awesome. However, on checking the recipe, under the cake ingredients - it says 1/2 sugar…..1/2 what? cup? tablespoon? What did you use? This is the sugar that does into the egg whites. Thanks.

This would have to be the best dressed cake I’ve seen! Thanks for the link to the recipe.

this cake looks amazing. if only you can send me a piece

That is a very impressive cake Ivonne.

That is one show-stopper of cake! The fact that it wouldn’t be made all the time… makes it expense only part of its lure.
A real treat to serve, this time of year! I imagine it would be perfect not only at Christmas…but for a special fall birthday.

Ivonne ~ I go weak in the knees for chestnut puree. I love it quite simply on crepes, but I recognise the intensity it gives to cakes, too, though I’ve yet to find out for myself. The textured quality of the layers of this cake look amazing. Chestnut and chocolate is a combination that is tough to beat.

I’m glad you’ve come back from a well-deserved vacation ready to go in the kitchen again.

Wow! very impressive!

Despite it’s cost, it looks almost too good to eat…yum!

That sure looks like a pretty and delicous cake! It looks worth every penny it costs

I waqtched Ricardo make this cake and thought to myself it would be a challenge. Siomething like what the DB would make!! It certainly is impressive!!! I could make a cheesecake and decorate it in the same way with the piroline cookies and shaved chopcolate on top!!

That would definitely inspire oohs and ahhs, it looks stunning!

Holy cow! That’s gorgeous my love!!!! Way to go!

xoxo

Wow, that’s amazing. I love chestnut! Yours looks so much tastier than the photo on Food Network.
Julie

Yes that is impressive. That is the dessert equivalent to putting down the perfectly cooked turkey on the table and having everyone go “AAAAHHHHH”.

All I can do is drool. Looks absolutely delectable!

What a beautiful cake! Looks too good to eat!
Welcome back to the land of snow and snow and snow…

Where can I purchase chestnut creme? This is a special occasion cake, for sure!

I saw the episode where Ricardo makes the cake (he did an hour-long Christmas special on the Food Network) - your cake looks just as gorgeous as his! I remember thinking the recipe looks a little hard (or maybe just long) to make, but seeing yours really makes me want to try making it at home. Great job!

Wow! That has holiday dessert written all over it. Delicious!

Paz

That looks so good! Chocolate and chestnuts go well together.

That’s a beautiful and impressive cake! Great for the holidays.

It does look lovely, though, and such a pretty little bow. I think I would be after that chestnut cream quick as anything, perhaps even collapsing the cake as I took my spoon to it to scoop out mouthfuls while you weren’t looking.

Yay you’re back! What a fabulous dress rehearsal I want to eat those desserts right off my screen.

I’m loving the “Cream Puff version of holiday dress rehearsals” - so decadent and stunning!! That cake, for this most recent installment of Magazine Mondays, is beyond breathtaking - sorry that it was so expensive to make though!! But hey, I’d say it was worth the price - just look at how beautiful it is!! :0)

How lovely!

Pirouette cookies are some of my favorites! I just adore that they’re all around the outside of the cake!

Oooh, I was just talking to my mum about making a chocolate/chestnut cake yesterday! I think destiny has delivered this one into my hands; it looks beautiful! The cross-section makes me just want to take an enormous bite…

Beautiful, Ivonne! Happy weekend to you also

Hi, Ivonne! I wish you and your loved ones a very delicious Christmas!

Whoa. That IS impressive. Beautifully done, Ivonne!

hey that cake looks so good it dosent taste to great