Poverty style white bean, chestnut and apricot cake

8 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
5 cups Cooked white beans
½ cup All-purpose flour
4 Eggs; separated
½ cup Sugar
½ cup Honey
5 Marron glaces (candied chestnuts); roughly chopped
¼ cup Thinly-sliced dried apricots
2 tablespoons Baking powder

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 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. This recipe yields 8 servings.

Recipe Source: MOLTO MARIO with Mario Batali From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # MB-5644 broadcast 03-05-1996) Downloaded from their Web-Site -

Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD - jpmd44a@...

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07-21-1998

Recipe by: Mario Batali

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