Ingredients:
- Bitter sweet chocolate 6 once.
- Unsweetened coco powder 2 table spoon.
- Strong coffee 1/4 cup.
- Separated 6 table spoon superfine sugar.
- pinch of cream of tartar.
- Vanilla extract 1 tea spoon.
- Un sweetened coco powder for dusting candied chestnuts,to decorate.
For the chest nuts cream filling:
- Heavy cream 2 cup.
- Coffee flavour liqueur 2 table spoon.
- Canned sweetened chestnut puree 1 1/2 cup.
- Bittersweet chocolate 4 once,grated.
How to make:
- Preheat the oven at 350 degree.
- Grease and line the bottom and side of a bib jelly roll pan.
- In a heat proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water,melt the chocolate un till smooth,set a side.
- Dissolve the cocoa in the coffee to make a smooth paste,set a side.
- In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer.
- Beat the egg yolks with half the sugar un till pale and thick,about 3-4 minutes.
- Slowly beat in the melted chocolate and cocoa coffee paste un till blended.
- Beat the eggs white and cream of tarter un till stiff peaks form.
- Sprinkle the sugar over the whites in two batches and beat un till whites are stiff and glossy,beat in the vanilla.
- Stir a spoonful of whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it,the fold in the remaining whites.
- Spoon in to the pan,bake for 20-25 minutes or un till the cake springs back,when touched with a fingertip.
- Meanwhile,dust a dish towel with cocoa powder.
- When the cake is done,turn out the towel immediately and remove paper.
- Starting at a narrow end,roll cake and towel together jelly roll style.
- Cool completely.
- To make the filling, whip the cream and liqueur un till soft peaks form.
- Beat a spoonful cream into the chestnut puree to lighten it,then in the remaining cream and grated chocolate.
- Reserve a quarter of the chestnut cream mixture for the decoration.
- Unroll the roulade and trim the edges.
- Spread the chestnut cream mixture to within 1 inch of the edge of the cake.
- Using the towel ti lift the cake,gently re roll the cake,place roulade seam side down on a serving platr.
- Spread the reserved chestnut cream over the top of the roulade,and spoon some into an icing bag fitted with a medium star tip.
- Pipe rosettes down the sides and decorate with candied chestnuts.
It is so delicious and look nice serve cool: