Poverty Style White Bean, Chestnut And Apricot Cake
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Course : Italian
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 8
 

Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   5      cups          cooked white beans
     1/2  cup           all-purpose flour
   4                    eggs -- separated
     1/2  cup           sugar
     1/2  cup           honey
   5                    marron glaces -- (candied chestnuts),
                        -- roughly chopped
     1/4  cup           thinly-sliced dried apricots
   2      tablespoons   baking powder
 

Preparation:

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. Source: MOLTO MARIO with Mario Batali From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # MB-5644)