An incredibly delicious and also easy to prepare dessert is the waffle blossoms with chestnut purée. With my American-inspired Christmas menu featuring Caesar salad, sweet corn soup, and mini cheeseburgers as the courses beforehand, it was essential to create a delicious dessert to complement these dishes.
With the idea to fill waffle blossoms with chestnut purée, I succeeded, and my family was happy, full and satisfied, after this beautiful Christmas dinner.
This recipe's beauty is that you can prepare everything the day before, except for the arrangement, thus saving a lot of work at Christmas. After all, you want to do other things at Christmas besides cooking!
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🥘 Ingredients
- 7.05oz (200g) Chestnut purée
- 5.29oz (150g) Mascarpone
- 0.28oz (8g) Vanilla Sugar
- 8.81 oz (250g) Whipped Cream
- 3 tablespoon Powdered Sugar
- 2 tablespoon Tap Water
A little tip: If you want your chestnut purée to be a bit boozy, use rum instead of tap water. The rum gives the chestnut purée a little touch of alcohol.
For garnishing
- Chocolate Sauce or chocolate sprinkles
- Chocolate waffle cups (optional)
- Advocaat (optional)
Do not hesitate to use chopped nuts to garnish these treats, or, if you like it fruity, decorate with all sorts of fruit, according to your taste. Let your culinary imagination run wild!
🍽 Equipment
- 1 Hand-held mixer
- 1 Mixing bowl with Lid
- 1 Mixing bowl for whipping the cream
- 1 Wooden spoon
- 1 Tablespoon
- 1 Kitchen machine (optional)
Again, you can see the merit of this dessert recipe - you don't need a lot of utensils, and the bottom line is you don't make much of a mess preparing it.
🔪 Instructions
To begin preparing this delicious dessert, whip the whipped cream until stiff. Once the whipped cream has the right consistency, set it aside and devote your attention to the base mass for the chestnut purée.
Then stir the chestnut purée with tap water, vanilla sugar, and powdered sugar until smooth.
Suppose you fancy a dash of alcohol in your chestnut purée. In that case, you can easily use two tablespoons of rum instead of tap water. It all depends on the preference of the cook and the guests you wanna spoil.
Now add the mascarpone and the whipped cream to the chestnut mixture and mix them well together! If you have a kitchen machine at home and want a really smooth purée, you should use the kitchen machine for mixing.
When the purée is well combined, cover the mixing bowl with a lid and refrigerate in the fridge for at least two hours.
Since I prepare the purée the day before Christmas, it chills in the refrigerator for much longer.
However, this is not a problem at all. Before serving, place the waffle blossoms on a dessert plate and divide the chestnut purée among the wafer blossoms. Decorate them afterward with chocolate sauce or chocolate sprinkles.
It is an option for decoration and flavor purposes to place a small chocolate waffle cup next to the waffle blossoms and fill it with advocaat. Since my family is on the side of advocaat lovers, this add-on brought a great delight.
You can use the advocaat as an additional topping or drink as is, and it is always available for refilling (if not scooped up immediately).
Fancy more Christmas Dessert ideas? Check out my Strawberry Cupcakes with Ricotta recipe or Egg Liqueur Parfait with homemade Advocaat! You can also snag yourself the Christmas Dinner Cookbook, filled with more delicious recipes!
📖 Variations
You are a chocolate lover, and you can not have enough chocolate in your dessert? Well, then I can offer you here another small chocolaty option.
Add chopped dark chocolate into the chestnut mixture
To make the chestnut purée more chocolaty, you have the option of adding 3.5oz (100g) of chopped dark chocolate to the chestnut mixture. The chopped chocolate is best added at the end when you combine the mascarpone and whipped cream with the prepared chestnut purée.
Coat the waffle blossoms with dark chocolate couverture
Another way to make the wafer blossoms with chestnut purée even more chocolatey is to coat the inside of the wafer blossoms with chocolate.
Therefore, you'll need at least one cup (7.05oz/200g) of ready-to-use dark chocolate glaze. Depending on how many blossoms you want to cover with chocolate. In our case, there were 5 blossoms, and one cup was enough for that amount.
Before frosting, place the desired amount of wafer blossoms individually on baking or buttered paper (frosting is quite a mess). Then, warm the cup of chocolate glaze as described on the package and divide the liquified chocolate glaze between 2-3 wafer blossoms.
Now here comes the somewhat "stressful" part. Take the couverture-filled blossom and swirl it until the entire inside is well coated with chocolate. Pour the excess into the next unfilled one.
Continue with the next couverture-filled blossom.
Always pour the remaining chocolate into an empty or slightly filled blossom and swirl it around. This way, it works out well to glaze all the wafer blossoms very evenly with one cup.
Since the chocolate glaze solidifies quite quickly, it is essential to be quick so that the glaze can be spread out nicely.
Then put the finished glazed waffle blossoms aside so that the frosting can set. After the chocolate is solidified, it's best to store them in a well-sealed cookie jar or plastic dish, so they don't dry out until you're ready to serve them.
In my pre-Christmas cooking test run for my Christmas dinner, I tried both variations. While I'm a chocolate lover myself, I still opted for the unglazed version because I considered the additional chocolate glaze to be too much after three courses in advance.
But that's my personal opinion, and you should definitely try the glazed version. It tastes absolutely delicious!
📖 Recipe
Waffle blossoms with chestnut purée
Ingredients
- 200 g Chestnut purée
- 150 g Mascarpone
- 8 g Vanilla Sugar
- 150 g Whipped Cream
- 3 tablespoon Powdered Sugar
- 2 tablespoon Tap water
For garnishing
- 5 pieces Waffle blossoms
- Chocolate Sauce
Instructions
- Whip the whipped cream until stiff.
- Stir the chestnut purée with tap water, vanilla sugar, and powdered sugar until smooth.
- Add the Mascarpone and the whipped cream to the chestnut mixture and mix well!
- When the purée is well combined, cover the mixing bowl with a lid and refrigerate in the fridge for at least two hours.
Before serving
- Place the wafer blossoms on a dessert plate.
- Divide the chestnut purée among the wafer blossoms.
- Decorate with chocolate sauce or chocolate sprinkles.
Notes
Chocolate complements
You are a chocolate lover, and you can not have enough chocolate in your dessert? Well, then I can offer you here another small chocolaty option.Add chopped dark chocolate into the chestnut mixture
To make the chestnut purée more chocolaty, you have the option of adding 3.5oz (100g) of chopped dark chocolate to the chestnut mixture. The chopped chocolate is best added at the end when you combine the mascarpone and whipped cream with the prepared chestnut purée.Coat the waffle blossoms with dark chocolate couverture
Nutrition values are estimates only, using online calculators. Please verify using your own data.
⛑ Food Safety
- Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
- Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
- Wash hands after touching raw meat
- Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
- Never leave cooking food unattended
- Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
- Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
Zac
So creative, cant wait to try these. Thanks for sharing.
Jill
What a cute dessert idea! These look so delicious! Love the chestnut puree!
Christina's Bread Bakes
Amazing and delicious. Didn't have waffle blossoms so I served it in a bowl with broken waffle ice cream cones.
jessie
I just adore chestnut creme, so this pairing with chocolate is right up my alley!
Jere
This is such a fun way to serve dessert. I like the idea of coating the inside with chocolate.
Fabiana
Look awesome!!! Never tried the chestnut purèe before, can't wait to try your recipe!
Colette
Delicious! I love that this dessert is dairy-free since I’m lactose intolerant. I’ve never had chestnut purée before, so I’m so excited about this recipe. It’s getting warmer here where we live, so I’m going to make it.
Thanks for the recipe!
Cindy Mom the Lunch Lady
I've never had chestnut puree before but this looks like a lovely special occasion dessert!
Kalin
Yum! These look delicious and the recipe sounds so simple! I can't wait to try these out!
Kay
A great dessert idea for christmas!
Jessica Formicola
Oh my goodness, what a fun idea! My kids will love these! And that chestnut puree sounds incredible!
Chef Dennis
I can't get enough of this! It's really delicious!
Emily Flint
These were delicious!
Leslie
Wonderful dessert recipe!
Gabriela Herrera
I am drooling over here. I love how this recipe is so simple to make and how indulging it is.
Kalin
This sounds like recipe for me - it looks incredible! I will be adding the chopped dark chocolate for sure!
Gregory Halpen
Chestnut puree sounds so delicious! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
mihaela
Wow, this dessert looks so festive! What a great way to incorporate chestnuts in sweets:)
Freya
Chestnut purée is so festive, and I love the sound of this recipe!
Seanna
These look amazing! Can’t wait to try these!
Sue
I love these - something very different from the usual and very special. Lots of chocolate on mine 🙂
Raquel
These are so pretty and simple! Going to make these for a spring tea party!
Debra
Such amazing flavor. Really a special recipe.
Kristen Greazel
We made this over the weekend and it was excellent!
Marita
Looking Great. What an inventive idea for a dessert. Thanks for sharing
Freya
These sound so delicious and a different way to serve chestnut purée!
Julia
I'm quite excited to try these. They look so easy to make and look, special and attractive. I love these kinds of desserts so this weekend I'm going to be making waffle blossoms.
Melinda
I have never heard of chestnut purée but I am intrigued. Christmas is the one time of the year I have chestnuts so this recipe screams Christmas to me.
kris
I never made anything with chestnut before, but I'm intrigued and will need to try this!
Cindy Mom, the Lunch Lady
Just wanted to stop in to let you know that you are being featured over at You're the Star Blog Hop this week. Thank you so much for sharing this delicious recipe with us!! Have a great week!
Nora
That's amazing! Thank you so much Cindy! 🥰
Addie
This is such a fun dessert! Yum!!
Ildiko
I love chestnut purée and this recipe looks delicious. It’s just hard for me to find canned chestnut purée where I live.