Chestnut layered cake

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[edit] Description

In Romanian: Tort de castane

[edit] Ingredients

• 12 eggs
• 9 oz/280 g confectioner's sugar
• 3 heaping tablespoons fine bread crumbs
• 1 teaspoon ground cinammon
• 9 oz/280 g boiled and crushed chestnuts (puree)
• butter
• filling and icing

[edit] Directions

1. Beat the Sugar with 12 yolks, add the bread crumbs and cinammon and mix gently.
2. Add the chestnut puree and 6 whipped egg whites at the end.
3. Pour the mixture in the buttered cake pan and bake at slow heat for 45 minutes.
4. Fill and glaze as desired.