I always make this for my birthday – I love it that much. The very chocolately sponge is filled with softly whipped cream, luscious chestnut spread and studded with crumbled Maron glacé is a real indulgence. It freezes so, if you don’t have a Birthday so close to Christmas as I do, you can make it in advance and whip it out on Christmas Eve as a Buche de Noel – perhaps covering it in yet more cream and chocolate to make it more log like like the French do.
